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Council Elections Back On ~ Thanks To Reform!

And another U-turn from dead-man-walking Starmer🥹“Dear Susan,We have just won a huge victory, not just for Reform but for democracy.This Labour government have u-turned on their plan to cancel local elections for 4.6m voters.Keir Starmer, in collusion with the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats tried to cancel 30 elections across the country, some for the second year in a row.Last month, Reform UK took the government to court, and we were due in the High Court this Thursday. But today, they have caved in, with the Secretary of State for Local Government, Steve Reed, withdrawing the decision to cancel elections.This defeat is yet another nail in the coffin for Starmer’s premiership, and for Steve Reed, a resigning matter.Only Reform UK fights for democracy. And we will be ready to fight elections across the country on May 7th.”

Sue Hammond ● 8h3 Comments

I am not sure, Andy, that I would blame Keir Starmer for his lack of knowledge of the law in this case. But I would blame both him and his Attorney General for failing to seek expert advice from a specialist in this area of the law before allowing local authorities to cancel elections. Why did it take a legal opinion submitted by Reform to get the government to change its mind and declare the cancellation of elections unlawful?

Steven Rose ● 3h

"No one to blame here Keir you should know the law."Quite so, Mr P, you will already have seen this from his previous defeat over proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000."As a human rights barrister, Starmer famously defended direct-action protesters using arguments that contemporary critics say contradict his government's recent actions: Defending Sabotage (2003): Starmer represented Josh Richards, one of the "Fairford Five" who broke into RAF Fairford to sabotage U.S. bombers heading for Iraq. He argued their actions were legally and morally justified because they were intended to prevent "war crimes".Direct Action as "Conscience": During his legal career, he characterized such acts not as terrorism, but as a "landmark in lawful non-violent direct action" driven by conscience."

David Ainsworth ● 5h

Wasnt the Prime Minister our top lawyer? Perhaps there should be an investigation as to how a man so ignorant of the law got the job.No one to blame here Keir you should know the law.Just another crooked action by a crooked government

Andy Pike ● 5h