Reform UK enjoyed success in last week’s local elections, but it hasn’t all been plain sailing for Nigel Farage’s party. It transpires that one of his new councillors Donna Edmunds has quit the party just days after winning her Shropshire seat – following her suspension from the group for posting on Twitter that she had plans to defect from Reform after the local elections. Good heavens!
Edmunds, who was elected in Hodnet in Shropshire, had taken to Twitter on Sunday to announce she had been suspended from Farage’s party ‘pending an investigation’ – after she had made previous posts about waiting for ex-Reform man Rupert Lowe to set up a rival party ‘and then I will defect’. While she has now quit the group, Edmunds didn’t go quietly. She criticised the party’s treatment of Lowe, claiming his suspension triggered a ‘wave of resignations’ before launching into a scathing attack on Farage on social media. The new councillor hit out at the Reform leader for being a ‘terrible leader’ and writing that he ‘must never be prime minister’. Tell us what you really think…
A Reform spokesperson remarked about the matter that: ‘The reason for her suspension is that she posted on social media that she intended to defect to another party.’ Yet despite her subsequent attempts to quit Reform, Edmunds quickly discovered that her only option to opt out was to cancel the automatic renewal of her payment – meaning she will technically remain a member until, er, the year is up. What a mess…
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