Labour Councillor for Chafford & North Stifford, Thurrock. Portfolio Holder for Children’s Services, Education & Community Safety 🌹Proud European 🇪🇺
Chafford Hundred Essex
Joined March 2010
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Vikki Hartstean 🌹 retweeted
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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True to form, during yet another of his “scam” announcements, Farage’s famously paper‑thin skin disintegrates the moment anyone dares prod it, even when the prod comes from his pal Beth Rigby. The second she points out that he promised council tax cuts to win local elections and then delivered precisely nothing, he reacts like she’s committed treason. For a man who never stops lecturing the country about “accountability,” he folds spectacularly quickly when the accountability is aimed at him. #Farage #ReformUK
Vikki Hartstean 🌹 retweeted
Farage needs to urgently launch an independent investigation into his party to weed out any links to Russia.
Vikki Hartstean 🌹 retweeted
Refork UK Kent were the DOGE flagship
@Arron_banks, @LeaderofKCC, @ZiaYusufUK, @nattyfried and Councillor Brian Collins all lined up on Kent County Hall's staircase saying this would be rolled out to all Reform UK councils.
Today they've announced they've barely found any savings and will likely raise taxes in Kent.
That's Reform UK's DOGE, a headline, a lie, a promise they could not keep.
Vikki Hartstean 🌹 retweeted
My wife Bunty is terribly excited.
She has at long last found something to scare the cats and keep them out of our garden:
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Democrat @RepRaskin excoriates Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
Vikki Hartstean 🌹 retweeted
Look who’s skipping the return of Parliament for a US speaking gig, again.
Yep, Nigel Farage.
#AnywhereButClacton
Vikki Hartstean 🌹 retweeted
perfect comedy timing from the Speaker at #PMQs calling Nigel Farage after Starmer promises to go after “the fraudsters, the grifters, the con artists no matter who they are” 😄
Vikki Hartstean 🌹 retweeted
So this week only - Reform UK
- have a councillor arrested and charged with assault and criminal damage
- a councillor (suspended in June) in Court for threats to kill his wife
- an MP with the whip now surrendered due to questions over Covid loans
FARAGE AND TICE ARE SILENT
Vikki Hartstean 🌹 retweeted
McMurdock trousering cash whilst the country was in turmoil.
Taking out £70k’s worth of bounce back loans, the maximum for the size of the two companies he claimed to have, whilst having no employees and then transferring shares to your mum, the accountant, then not filing accounts / annual corporate filings after the loans (a violation of the Companies Act)…
(breathe)
…is surely grounds enough to be slung out of the Commons.
Statement from James McMurdock.
Thursday evening I received a phone call from a journalist who followed an extremely aggressive and clumsy line of questioning where he confused assets, profit, and turnover. He confirmed that the phone call was off the record and I advised him to please be very careful with the details and consult a technically qualified person. Despite his confirmation that the call was off the record, he has made public reference to it.
Yesterday (Friday) lunch time I received an email from the same journalist asking me to provide detailed information relating to businesses that ceased trading some years ago. The deadline to provide that information was 6pm the same day.
I confirmed to the journalist that all my business dealings had always been conducted fully within the law and in compliance with all regulations and that appropriately qualified professionals had reviewed all activity confirming the same.
FACTS:
- My business dealings have been reviewed by ICAEW qualified professionals. Absolute compliance was confirmed!
- My Register of Interests was completed with the support of IPSA!
As a precautionary measure, and for the protection of ReformUK, I have asked to have the whip suspended temporarily.
Vikki Hartstean 🌹 retweeted
Reform UK’s rising star @SophiePrestonHa asked last month what happened to bounce back loans in Thurrock.
Well, that’s awkward. Isn’t it @JamesReform?
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Vikki Hartstean 🌹 retweeted
Well, I mean he was convicted of serious assault of his ex girlfriend and now this. You couldn’t make it up. Vetting hasn’t happened at all with this party. We’re supposed to believe they’re gonna form the next government. 33% of their MPs gone in the first year.
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Murdock threatened us to be "very, very careful" when approached with allegations- but would not address claims he used Bounce Back loans to borrow cash when Covid struck.
One firm is J A M Financial, which, after borrowing cash, he transferred to his mum 2/
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SUNDAY TIMES EXCLUSIVE🚨
Reform MP James McMurdock suspended after investigation into £70,000 of Covid loans
He borrowed money via two companies: one dormant, the other with negligible assets
He will not say what legitimate purpose they served
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Vikki Hartstean 🌹 retweeted
Reform UK DOLGE Cabinet role in @Kent_cc will cost £36k per year
An FOI request has revealed that DOLGE will in fact use taxpayers money with Councillor Matthew Fraser getting a £36k allowance for the role on top of his Councillor allowance.
It begs the question - how much will this cost across their councils?
This FOI also highlights the fact they are not going to be security vetted. 👀
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NEW: 'No idea, genuinely': Watch as Reform economic chief gets confused over existing relationships between Notts County Council and regional leaders.
Cllr James Walker-Gurley, a new Reform cabinet member in Notts, sat down with us last week. It didn't go well.
@laurenamonaghan
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Irene J Davidson is Reform Uk’s candidate for #Blundellsands Ward, #Sefton, #Liverpool in the 19th June by-election.
She’s @IreneD10598 on Twitter, buckle up as this one’s a rollercoaster.
But let’s start with her idea to tattoo everyone that arrives on our shores on a small boat.
Tattoo on arrival.
Seriously @reformparty_uk?
