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    Londoners face £80,000 bill as fourth newly elected Green councillor quits
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    Londoners face £80,000 bill as fourth newly elected Green councillor quits

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    2. Icy-Tear4613 on

      “A Labour Party spokesperson said: “The Greens can’t be trusted to deliver at your local council. Now their incompetence will come at a huge cost to taxpayers everywhere.”

      How much is a mayoral election?

    4. whyowhyowhy9 on

      Party’s should have to pay of there Canadate quits for any reason except for illness, major life changes or criminal behaviour

      every other reason should be charged to the party’s

      How much has the tax payer had to spend for green and reform being shit at vetting?

    5. DSQ on

      Two of the councillors had to step down because the Greens didn’t realise that working teachers aren’t allowed to run for election because they work for the local authority. Another also was ineligible but they haven’t said why. Pretty shocking that a political party hadn’t checked the law before running candidates. 

    6. Soulless--Plague on

      “Thank you for the vote of confidence in me…now I’ll be off, you’re all screwed, thank you, goodbye.”

    8. Realistic-River-1941 on

      If I ever want to overthrow British democracy and take over, I won’t tell people there is an emergency, I’ll tell them it will save money.

    9. Legitimate_Outside94 on

      So three people who would love to take their seat but aren’t allowed to… And one who would have withdrawn before the election but wasn’t allowed to.

      Cool scoop guys

    10. MuhammadAkmed on

      Green voters probably aren’t contributing tax to pay for them anyway.

      Their leader …

    11. stinkfinger1980 on

      Can we have some actual stats on this from previous parties and orevious years as i have no idea, and before anyone says to look it up myself I’m very drunk and I need one of you guys to do it for me.

    12. JRR92 on

      And I thought the Reform councillors were a joke

      I mean they are but it doesn’t make this lot any better

    13. Daver7692 on

      Hilarious that when a green quits, the cost to the taxpayer is reported as the controversy but it’s absent when a reform one quits.

    14. clara_finn on

      I knew this will make some people unreasonably angry that this is being pointed out because they refuse to acknowledge there’s double standards and bias in the media, but who cares. In the countless headlines about this with reform councillors I’ve not once seen the cost to the taxpayers mentioned. When it happens with a Green one, it’s right there in the headline

    15. longboxbabe on

      And the bills we face because of the Reform councillors thay quit/have been suspended/are dead/never existed are what exactly?

    17. Elvenstranger1 on

      So if the 4, 3 were actually ineligible and hadn’t realised it. 1 would have been kicked out before the election but because they were in the ballot they couldn’t. They gave probably wisely decided to go rather than take a seat.

      Not great but not the worst reasons. Greens have got a bit of growing to do.

      (I’d take these seemingly honest mistakes from 3 of them over the stuff reform have had to quit for)

    19. NeilSilva93 on

      They should make candidates put down a £500 deposit that’s only refunded after a year’s service. That might sort the wheat from the chaff.