A bunch Reform councilors resigned too. It’s weird how the media only put a price tag on the Greens.
Yup, for comparison there were over 2000 new councilors elected at this set of local elections. 5 standing down is a complete non-story.
also £100,000 for all Londoners is like £0.01 per head
No media outlets report on Reform.
not what i said. at least Green supporters have basic reading comprehension skills…
Click the last link, genius.
Paywalled. Available here: https://archive.is/QCrxC
James Tilden was elected to represent Hackney Central ward with 1,681 votes following the council elections last Thursday, but his party failed to realise this breached electoral law before making him a candidate because he is a primary school teacher who works for the local authority.
Muhammed Naser, who was elected in the Regent’s Park ward of Camden council, has also had to stand down for the same reason.
That seems a ridiculous law intentionally made to stop those most qualified from standing. Fair enough not being able to resume working for the council whilst a councillor, but the inability to stand for election while working there is ridiculous.
Inb4 “wElL tHE lAw iS tHe lAw aND tHeY sHOuLd kNOw tO FolLoW iT”
Over the course of the last decade, each year has seen an average of 2,685 new laws - the equivalent of almost seven and a half a day or one every three-and-a-quarter hours
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/jun/04/houseofcommons.uk
That was in 2007, how many laws have we had since then? So many that neither the Electoral Commission nor any of the competing parties noticed in time before the election.
It’s not a full time job, so I understand how you can’t have someone in charge of the council also have a job there.
They should just be able to recurse themselves from certain decisions or something though.
