oh yeah now the dust from the local elections have settled, it's back to showing their true insanity

'don't you dare invest in my constituency'

meanwhile I'm reading the BBC feed for Laura K's show, I wouldn't dare watch it, but from that summary, it sounds like she gave Zia Yusuf a nice platform to politely explain how he's going to limit immigration and remove diversity initiatives while barely challenging him on anything, then ruthlessly grilled Badenoch, Streeting, Davey AND Adrian Ramsay on their party's perceived failures immediately after. :/

if I were casually reading that with no knowledge of the parties I would see Reform as the bold party setting the agenda, which they are, because they get ridiculously easy rides.

Nothing new from Tice. He’s very much a boomerslop Conservative. I’m sure if you polled reform voters vs Farage & Tice they’d agree on less than 50% of things. As much as people will be super critical and try to claim reform are doing terrible now they have some power it truly doesn’t matter. They can’t lose unless Labour actually do well which I don’t see happening with Starmer all reform have to do is oppose Labour better than Kemi

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One of the Farageistes elected in Warwickshire is reported to be a member of the armed services. That would make him ineligible to stand. A by-election already?

11 minutes ago, Suedehead2 said:

One of the Farageistes elected in Warwickshire is reported to be a member of the armed services. That would make him ineligible to stand. A by-election already?

He says he can stay as an independent then will switch to reform after his job is finished.

12 minutes ago, Liam S said:

He says he can stay as an independent then will switch to reform after his job is finished.

If he wasn’t eligible to stand, he can’t stay.

6 minutes ago, Suedehead2 said:

If he wasn’t eligible to stand, he can’t stay.

Maybe. He seems to think he can stand but just not for any political party

25 minutes ago, Liam S said:

Maybe. He seems to think he can stand but just not for any political party

But he stood for a political party. Meanwhile, I have posted before about the perils of cutting and pasting election material. Every election produces examples of leaflets containing material from party HQ where the words "[candidate name]", "[ward name]" or "[local authority name]" have not been replaced. The party concerned is embarrassed, while the other parties have a laugh and hope it won't be them next time. It looks like one of the Reform councillors has committed a slightly more embarrassing version of this. He stated in his election literature that he would give up his day job if elected. It looks like he copied the pledge from his general election material. An MP's salary is enough to allow members to give up the day job. A county councillor's allowance is not. Oops.

From my understanding looking into it(I could be wrong) he was eligible to stand

Just due to impartiality rules in the army he needs to be an independent until he’s no longer serving. This is just briefly looking into it but from the perspective of the election he’s fine his issue was with his job

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17 minutes ago, Liam S said:

From my understanding looking into it(I could be wrong) he was eligible to stand

Just due to impartiality rules in the army he needs to be an independent until he’s no longer serving. This is just briefly looking into it but from the perspective of the election he’s fine his issue was with his job

He has still broken the impartiality rules for members of the armed forces.

9 minutes ago, Suedehead2 said:

He has still broken the impartiality rules for members of the armed forces.

And that is a matter for the armed forces it’s got nothing to do with the election or his eligibility. He’s an elected councillor he’s just now independent instead of reform.

3 minutes ago, Liam S said:

And that is a matter for the armed forces it’s got nothing to do with the election or his eligibility. He’s an elected councillor he’s just now independent instead of reform.

Not a good look for a so-called patriotic party to be involved with someone dismissed from the armed services. Either they knew he was breaking impartiality rules, or their vetting process is still rubbish.

14 minutes ago, Suedehead2 said:

Not a good look for a so-called patriotic party to be involved with someone dismissed from the armed services. Either they knew he was breaking impartiality rules, or their vetting process is still rubbish.

Who says he’s been dismissed? The whole reason he’s switched to independent is to comply with his jobs impartiality rules if he was dismissed he wouldn’t have switched to an independent.

7 minutes ago, Liam S said:

Who says he’s been dismissed? The whole reason he’s switched to independent is to comply with his jobs impartiality rules if he was dismissed he wouldn’t have switched to an independent.

He has broken the rules. He should be dismissed.

4 minutes ago, Suedehead2 said:

He has broken the rules. He should be dismissed.

😂😂The armed forces really isn’t like people think. I’m sure someone just said to him you can’t represent a party mate and that was it.

3 minutes ago, Liam S said:

😂😂The armed forces really isn’t like people think. I’m sure someone just said to him you can’t represent a party mate and that was it.

And he went ahead and did just that. Michael Heseltine famously bought himself out of the armed forces so t hat he could start his political career. This numpty seems to have decided that the rules don't apply to him. I assume his erstwhile party will support any action against him given that they oppose what they think is a two-tier justice system.

3 minutes ago, Suedehead2 said:

And he went ahead and did just that. Michael Heseltine famously bought himself out of the armed forces so t hat he could start his political career. This numpty seems to have decided that the rules don't apply to him. I assume his erstwhile party will support any action against him given that they oppose what they think is a two-tier justice system.

Yes because the rules are different to be an MP you can’t be a member of the armed forces but to be a councillor you can

10 minutes ago, Liam S said:

Yes because the rules are different to be an MP you can’t be a member of the armed forces but to be a councillor you can

Standing under a party banner is still engaging in political activity.

On 07/05/2025 at 23:59, Liam S said:

😂😂The armed forces really isn’t like people think. I’m sure someone just said to him you can’t represent a party mate and that was it.

And it’s quite clear you have less than zero idea either.

The military is huge on discipline and rules being followed. Zero chance he wouldn’t Land in hot water for that.

Xoxo former military kid, born in a military hospital during the military occupation of Germany

8 hours ago, Silas said:

And it’s quite clear you have less than zero idea either.

The military is huge on discipline and rules being followed. Zero chance he wouldn’t Land in hot water for that.

Xoxo former military kid, born in a military hospital during the military occupation of Germany

He’s already said there was no issue it was just relayed to him he should have put independent. I’m not a fan of military things but I have various friends and family members right now as we speak as officers in different parts of the army and they’re the most chill people on earth. This isn’t 1960.

The BBC now have an article about it

BBC News

Warwickshire Reform UK councillor to serve as an Independent

Luke Shingler says he is currently unable to serve under the Reform party due to his employment.

A lot of misinfo out there. From what I’ve seen one guy elected in Newark stepped down due to illness realising he couldn’t carry out duties there might be an election on that one. One person became an independent calling reform a cult because they suspended her due to her support of Robert Lowe and this guy temporarily became an independent due to his job. Everything else just seems made up for clicks.

For Silas what the army is more like these days

Edited May 9May 9 by Liam S

Lol you really are either the master of spin Liam... so someone else who has lived in experience first hand should believe that video of someone who is just attacking for clicks and views? My uncle is in the army and rules are still a huge focus for them, to the point they have their own military jail and dish out punishments unlike ones our civilians endure, including having to stand holding two full pails of water until you are dismissed, unable to lower your arms no matter how much it hurts... but yeah, because that idiot says the army has gone soft we will all believe him.

Same for the constant dismissal of Seudehead's point that Shingler deliberately broke the rules by going as part of the Reform party, he should not be allowed to now be independent. You can guarantee that if it were a Labour councilor, you'd be calling for them to step down or be booted.

Edited May 9May 9 by Spiceboy