Reform UK refuses to engage with Nottinghamshire Post/Live

Reach plc.
They own, amongst other publications, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express so might be thought to be non-partisan!!

No Political Alignment:
Unlike a political party, a news outlet like Nottinghamshire Live doesn't have a formal political ideology or stance.

How odd.

LizzieDrip

Whitewavemark2

The BBC are complicit in my view. Farage is never off the news.

Agreed WW.

Or Trump. One or other of them. Every time I turn the tv on. I, too heard what Farage said. But the man can happily say that black is white without turning a hair and say the opposite the next day and constantly gets away with it. The media rarely question him. I believe that Victoria Derbyshire confronted Tice the other day but she’s a one off. I think all news items should be fact checked in the post truth world that we now live in.

Maybe a maverick Reform Council leader, or maybe a local news editor who is putting a slant on reporting - or both those factors?

Allira

Reach plc.
They own, amongst other publications, the Daily Mirror and the Daily Express so might be thought to be non-partisan!!

No Political Alignment:
Unlike a political party, a news outlet like Nottinghamshire Live doesn't have a formal political ideology or stance.

How odd.

Yes, it was formerly Trinity Mirror and owns loads of local papers, including the Liverpool Echo and Manchester Evening News.

It probably wasn't a good idea to make an enemy of them.

Casdon

Maybe a maverick Reform Council leader, or maybe a local news editor who is putting a slant on reporting - or both those factors?

I'm not sure, but I think the Nottingham Post reported that a couple of Reform councillors weren't happy about the reorganisation which the Reform leader is planning.

Mr Trump would be proud.

growstuff

Casdon

Maybe a maverick Reform Council leader, or maybe a local news editor who is putting a slant on reporting - or both those factors?

I'm not sure, but I think the Nottingham Post reported that a couple of Reform councillors weren't happy about the reorganisation which the Reform leader is planning.

I found this on ITV News:

The reason why the ban came into place was because of an article written by journalist Oliver Pridmore.

It was claimed in the piece that two Reform county councillors would be suspended from their county council group if they did not vote for Council Leader Mick Barton's preference of a bigger Nottingham covering Broxtowe and Gedling.

Speaking to ITV Central he said he was bewildered by the ban.
He said: "Speechless when I first heard. We're not on any war against Reform at NottinghamshireLive in the slightest.

"We've just provided challenging, fair, scrutinising coverage to the party now in charge of the largest local authority in our area.

"A free press scrutinising parties in charge of councils like this is important, whatever your political beliefs."’

It sounds like the Council leader has a wish to reorganise the boroughs of the council which is controversial, and didn’t want the public to know about it?

Nottinghamshire Council leader wishing to reorganise the boroughs of the council - a smaller version of The Donald wanting to incorporate Canada into the USA

Got to start somewhere, I suppose. He'll be invading Derbyshire next week.

"Is the this a sign of the future?"

Welcome to the US circa 2015. Want to see how it ends? Read my post history.

As far as I know, Nottinghamshire is undergoing the same sort of reorganisation as Essex.

The idea in Nottinghamshire is to abolish the nine district councils and have two larger unitary authorities, which eliminate the overlap and wastage with county and district councils.

In Essex, we're going to have three unitary authorities, but the controversy is whether the county gets divided into horizontal or vertical bands. I'm in north west Essex - it matters to my council because we could end up in north Essex, which is mainly rural, but probably centred on Colchester or we could end up in west Essex, which is more urban and would be centred on Harlow. We don't feel a great affinity with either group. We also have an independent council, which would lose its majority and be absorbed into a bigger grouping.

My guess is that the same kind of situation exists in Nottinghamshire. The city of Nottingham is very different from the surrounding rural villages. I think it's crucial that local people have a voice and that the council uses the media to inform and consult with people. On the face of it, it appears that Reform doesn't want to be held to account.

Galaxy

He doesn't like reform I don't think, didn't he have some sort of fight with farage.

Musk is now supporting Ben Habib’s party on X -Advance UK I think it is called.

There must be opposition cllrs on Notts CC. Where are they? They can’t be denied access to decision making or prevented from talking to the press.

They can’t be banned from speaking to the press, but I’d guess that as Reform has the majority and runs the cabinet, they won’t be party to proposals until they go to full council?

Casdon

They can’t be banned from speaking to the press, but I’d guess that as Reform has the majority and runs the cabinet, they won’t be party to proposals until they go to full council?

If the opposition councillors have any sense, they'll be doing quite a lot of talking to the local press.

Must admit I've given up listening to anything they say,

Allsorts

Must admit I've given up listening to anything they say,

Councillors or the media?