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Most politicians manage systems.
Very few actually change them.
If you’re going into politics, aim higher than just running what’s already there.
Change how it works.
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Reform UK North West Leicestershire retweetledi
Reform UK North West Leicestershire retweetledi
Busy day today, out supporting the Whetstone election with everyone’s favourite Cllr and vice chair . @MJSquiresReform
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On my Facebook post about this someone commented -
“Solving local problems is only the role of a councillor inasmuch as they are solvable within existing policy.
The exact role of a councillor is establishing policy. If you don’t like an officer answer then absolutely it should be taken to cabinet / full council (unless, of course, the problem relates to a statutory responsibility).
You’re doing the right thing.”
This is exactly the point I was making, just put in a more simple, better and shorter way. 🫡
Joseph Boam@Joseph_Boam
Sometimes I genuinely wonder what the point is of being an elected councillor. You raise a practical idea using local knowledge, something residents actually want fixing and the response from unelected civil servants is a 10 paragraph essay that basically translates to “No.” And sometimes the attitude from the civil servants feels like “here’s a response so you can get residents off your back.” That should never be the role of a councillor. Councillors are elected to solve problems, not just relay excuses from unelected bureaucrats. But here’s the thing, councillors do still have power. If officers won’t move something forward, it can be taken to full council and voted on by elected members. I’ve rarely seen councillors bring very local issues to full council. Maybe because they just accept the officer response and move on. I won’t be doing that. If it takes bringing a local issue to full council so elected councillors can decide, then that’s exactly what I’ll do. Break the chain. Put decisions back in the hands of the people who were actually elected. I was not elected to be a messenger.
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So in other words, a businessman structured his finances legally to pay the minimum tax required under the law…
Hardly a scandal, any good businessman would do the same.
Does anyone voluntary pay more tax? 😂
Gabriel Pogrund@Gabriel_Pogrund
EXCL: Richard Tice avoided £600K in corporation tax after acquiring legal status which experts say is rarely seen for a firm like his Reform MP then channeled dividends to offshore trust, pension vehicle and dormant entities — many of which didn’t pay tax thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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Sometimes I genuinely wonder what the point is of being an elected councillor.
You raise a practical idea using local knowledge, something residents actually want fixing and the response from unelected civil servants is a 10 paragraph essay that basically translates to “No.”
And sometimes the attitude from the civil servants feels like “here’s a response so you can get residents off your back.”
That should never be the role of a councillor.
Councillors are elected to solve problems, not just relay excuses from unelected bureaucrats.
But here’s the thing, councillors do still have power.
If officers won’t move something forward, it can be taken to full council and voted on by elected members.
I’ve rarely seen councillors bring very local issues to full council.
Maybe because they just accept the officer response and move on.
I won’t be doing that.
If it takes bringing a local issue to full council so elected councillors can decide, then that’s exactly what I’ll do.
Break the chain. Put decisions back in the hands of the people who were actually elected.
I was not elected to be a messenger.
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Your ancestors were not evil.
They built the towns, farms and communities we still live in today.
📍 Bakewell, Derbyshire
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“A nation that forgets its past has no future.”
— Winston Churchill
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: UK will remove Winston Churchill from banknotes, replacing him with "creatures like hedgehogs and badgers."
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Labour's Chagos Islands deal is a disaster for Britain 🇬🇧. We need a @reformparty_uk government to get us back on the right track.
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Soon I’ll be exposing one of the most daft and farcical wastes of taxpayer money I’ve come across in local government.
Stay tuned.
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Winster Market House, built around 1570 in the Tudor era.
My Boam ancestors lived and worked in this village from the late 1600s. They would have walked through these very doors and traded in this market.
Places like this built Britain, community, trade and pride in place. 🇬🇧
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Britain does not need an “anti-Muslim hostility tsar”.
In this country the principle should be simple: everyone equal before the law.
Once the state begins creating special roles for different groups, it stops treating citizens equally and starts dividing them.
That is how sectarian politics takes hold.
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Reform UK North West Leicestershire retweetledi
The other day, I took this photo inside St John the Baptist Church in Elton. 📸
It’s easy to walk past something like this without thinking too much about it. Just another old church window. Another list of names from another war.
But one of those names belonged to a 23 year old lad, John William Boam.
A shepherd on a Derbyshire farm at 18, three years later he enlisted.
On 15th September 1916, the first day tanks were used in battle, he was killed at the battle of the Somme.
He has no grave. His name is carved into the Thiepval Memorial in France.
And it’s here too, in stained glass, in his own village church.
Not just a name.
A life that never came home. 🇬🇧
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Reform UK North West Leicestershire retweetledi
Well done to my friend and fellow Cllr @CharlesAPugsley for his appearance on BBC Radio Leicester this morning.
He handled tough questioning confidently & stood his ground without folding under pressure, not everyone manages that. 👏🏼🇬🇧
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@RobertJenrick Will keep an eye out. She surely can’t get any worse than we already know.
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With all the war in the news this week, I wanted to say, irregardless of location, background or circumstance, I genuinely wish people positivity, peace, safety and strength.
I pray for everyone, everywhere. 🙏🏼
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Our churches should be given protected status so they are not routinely converted into mosques.
They are part of Britain’s Christian heritage and identity. Once a church is gone, it’s rarely restored.
Preserving faith buildings matters if we value our history. 🇬🇧
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We owe it to our ancestors not to let our country die.
Fight, Fight, Fight! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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