This is my favourite polling day picture. It’s an odd election for me not taking part in any way at all. Of note however is that three former Conservative District Council leaders are supporting Ana Savage-Gunn for PFCC Jim Hakewill, was the leader of Kettering Borough Council. He now was elected as an Independent councillor […]
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Statement We welcome Richard Solesbury-Timms to the Independent Group at WNC. Richard has stated that the Conservative Group continued inaction and stance of the group leadership cannot continue and has resigned the whip. Those escaping domestic abuse need to be assured that if they seek help they will be taken seriously. These events severely
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Statement The WNC Independents agree with the sentiments in the open letter from the Domestic Abuse Charities. These people do tireless work to support domestic abuse victims, their comments must be listened to as they have the relevant expertise. Our colleague Paul Clark has attempted to raise these issues at Council. He was shut down.
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Many people now have their postal vote for the Police Fire and Crime Commissioner in Northants. The three main parties have a candidate. Having ditched party politics it was a shame there was not an independent candidate to support. I was asked a many times to consider running, but I don’t have relevant experience of
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We welcome the departure of Jonathan Nunn as leader of West Northants Council. We congratulate all those women who have bravely spoken out over the past few weeks and to those journalists who have asked the right questions and not accepted excuses of harassment at face value. Our colleague Paul Clark has been fearless in
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Today, Thurs 18 April, the BBC have published another, and the most damaging, story to Jonathan Nunn to date. This follows on from the stories in Private Eye and The Daily Mail. All these stories relate to alleged domestic abuse by Jonathan Nunn. Today the BBC have FIVE women all making allegations of controlling and
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Why are West Northants Conservatives displaying such double standards when presented with allegations of wrongdoing? From my personal experience it took a lot less than an allegation of domestic violence to be suspended. Just make up some rules and then say you breached our made up rules. Get someone to claim their feelings are hurt
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I have written to WNC to request an Extraordinary Meeting of the council. This will have a single item agenda This council has no confidence in the Leader Cllr Jonathan Nunn. Proposed by Cllr Paul Clark Paul has been fearless in his work on raising this matter. He has been berrated and subjected to much
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I had a resident contact me to advise an abandoned vehicle. It appears it ran off the A508 into the ditch a few weeks ago but the car has not been recovered. I’ve reported it. As I got out of the car I was parked beside a blocked drain. Reported And finally as I went
