Reform UK council leader bans engagement with Nottinghamshire Live in unprecedented step

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1. “You can’t say anything nowadays” – Reform UK council leader (probably at some point in his life)

2. Typical populists. Reform are rotten from the top down, they are **not** on your side and will actively make your life harder.

3. That article is really worth a read – a well-written account and absolutely, and calmly, nails their behaviour to the wall.

   I particularly enjoyed this bit:

   >>It is truly baffling that Reform UK, the party that supposedly champions free speech, is allowing one of its new council leaders to block access to one of the biggest news outlets in his area over a fair and balanced piece of local journalism. 

4. Ah, the Trumpian approach. Ban them until they kiss the ring and/or buy into one of his businesses or grifts.

5. Surely this is an open goal for the other parties.

   If I were Labour, Tory, Green, whatever I’d get on Nottingham live every day slagging off reform, and all they’d have in response is ‘we asked but the local reform councillors refused to comment ‘

6. Shame I can barely read the article behind the insane unclosable pop ups

7. You can’t read their articles anyway with all the adverts in them, I’ve got an older phone and it crashes the article part way through reading them which is annoying

8. About a hairs width from _FAKE NEWS_ at this point.

9. As much as I dislike the Nottingham Post, they, like all other local news outlets, perform a vital public service, and that’s to hold local government officials to account through public discourse. It’s not the only way officials are made accountable but it’s a small part of a much larger machine. If I were to do a poor job, I think the Nottingham post should have every right to metaphorically club me over the head, regardless of how uncomfortable it may be.

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