The 13% Councillor: Reform Durham Needs Fighters, Not Passengers

Reform UK is for workers, not passengers. Why we’re clearing out the 'Ghost Councillors' who collect an allowance while delivering barely a fraction of their ward partner’s output.

This week, a Reform UK councillor who was so back-bench we assumed he had fallen off has been busy performing for the cameras—cutting up membership cards and penning resignation letters filled with the kind of high-flown rhetoric usually reserved for people who actually do their jobs.

But behind the theatrical “disdain” and the grievances of a man who lo…