🎉 MOSBOROUGH - WE DID IT! 🩵
I’m so incredibly proud to announce that last Thursday, 2,114 residents across Mosborough, Halfway, Westfield and Waterthorpe elected me to serve as their Sheffield City Councillor.
I’d like to start by thanking Gail Smith for her 14 years of hard work for the area. The number of people I spoke to on the doors who told me of her good work over those year really impressed me and drove me even harder to put all I could into my campaign.
Feeling like it would be a tight result, I took 2 weeks off work unpaid and spent every day knocking on over 4,000 doors across the ward, asking residents to share their concerns.
This was a truly mammoth task which wouldn’t have been possible without my helpers Alan Shaw, David, Dave, Martin, my mum, my dad, Jane, Cllr Richard Smith, Councillor Joss Barnes, Cllr Mark Foster, Cllr @MattJSmith for Park & Arbourthorne, Andy Grafton who stood for Broomhill, Shivan, Karen, Cllr Yvonne Sykes who won Southey Ward, John from Ecclesall and Stuart Wallace who alongside Laurence Hayward was elected to represent my neighbouring ward of Beighton. Then there’s more who can’t be named for work reasons.
Us 12 new Sheffield City Councillors have our induction sessions at the town hall this Thursday and Friday. From then, residents will be able to contact us via our council email addresses and phone numbers which will be available on the council’s website and which will be at the top of my page, for residents to easily get in contact with me about any local issues.
We’ll soon be electing our group leader, deputy leader and local party whip, so watch out for those being announced in the next week!
Much more about my priorities for the ward and our group’s larger priorities for city will be posted about in the near future.
As I said on the doorstep, in local government whilst there’s a long list of things a Councillor can push for, without majority control and without much ability to spend or borrow, your hands are largely tied. But I did promise to be easily contactable, present in the area and to organise regular clean-ups (cleaning street signs, litter picking and much more) in the community, to help restore pride in the area. Anyone interested in assisting with these local clean-ups, please give me a direct message.
Thanks again to all those who went out and voted - may for the first time in years - to give change a chance here in Sheffield! This result has shown that when the forgotten people use their voice, they can really make it heard and start the process of change that will ultimately deliver a government in 10 Downing Street that really represents that reasonable, common sense people of our great United Kingdom.
Follow my pages on Facebook Joel McGuigan - Reform UK & Mosborough Ward Reform UK Action Team to keep up with my work and for the last time on this post, thanks to all those who decided to give me and my Reform UK colleagues this opportunity to make local government better on your behalf.
Best regards,
Your new representative for Mosborough Ward,
Councillor Joel McGuigan 🇬🇧 @ReformJoel
I lost by 145 votes, but there is always next year. Onwards and upwards. On the plus side, leafleting and canvassing are a wonderful fitness regime. 🤣 So, if you want to help your local ReformUK team, and you want to get fit, it is cheaper than a gym, and you will be helping your community. Why not give it a go? 💙Congratulations to all of my fellow candidates who succeeded (@MattJSmith you know who you are). I hope to join you on Sheffield City Council in 2027.
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Reform members hit the streets and knocked on over 100,000 doors today.
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My name is Amanda Gaffney, and I am standing as the Reform UK candidate for the Beauchief and Greenhill ward this May. Many residents I’ve spoken to feel that Sheffield has been in decline under Labour and the Liberal Democrats, and they want a real alternative. Reform UK offers a different direction and a chance to restore pride in our city.
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