Reform councillor Barry Martin quits after saying role was ‘dull and boring’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy2528e248o
Posted by Weak-Fly-6540
Reform councillor Barry Martin quits after saying role was ‘dull and boring’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy2528e248o
Posted by Weak-Fly-6540
34 Comments
In about the year 5603, Historians will look upon 2026 as “The Year Of Elections”
Turns out politics isn’t just reckoning shit down the pub.
> In November, two complaints against Martin were upheld in a standards panel meeting, with the panel due to meet again next week.
What amazingly coincidental timing!
Your regular reminder that, on the Venn diagram describing set A – The Darkest Times and set B – The Dumbest Times, you are living in the intersection.
At the rate reform is losing councillors the media will be badgering farage to resign, right? Right?
*”Wait, i actually have to do work?!”*
Most Reform Councilors
*”I think those *insert racist comments here” and that’s a fact”*
Every other Reform Councilor.
Sounds like he was a very strange person – and Reform hated him too. Wasn’t a party thing, he was just a weirdo.
Reform do need to up their vetting…
How could these clowns possibly form a stable national government?
They can’t even manage to select and keep competent local councillors.
Reform are a grift at one end and a farce at the other.
Venn diagram of Reform and Weirdos is becoming more of a circle every day.
Yes.
But we do need people to do the dull and boring things. That’s the stuff that gets things done.
Now of you’ll excuse me, this reminds me to stop prevaricating and send a email
“I don’t understand what ‘systemic change’ means”.
Whatever your politics, if you don’t even understand that change is hard (administratively speaking) and that administrative roles are boring, then sorry you are too dumb to have a policy-defining government / local authority role.
Reform councillors are not serious people. Like Trumps morons, they are all inept. I could say more, but we all know who they really are and what they stand for. I will stand by for all the negative comments and laugh my arse off at them. Their so called councillors have already proved my point.
Well what to say? Just another extremely low calibre Reform candidate who got himself elected, who is totally unsuitable for the role.
There is a world of difference between shouting outside migrant hotels and being permanently online going down far right grievance rabbit holes – and actually representing your community in a responsible manner and having to deliver practical solutions to better the lives of your residents.
It requires certain skills of which is beyond the simpleton, unthinking mind of people like this.
So, good riddance to him and I hope residents will now get a Cllr – of whatever party – who can actually serve them with full distinction as required.
There is no vetting systems in Reform – I know this because I know a number for people who stood as candidates including one Welsh regional candidate who was put on the list as last minute who had no checks carried out at all, due to desperation before the deadline.
In fairness, someone should have told him that you only get the cocaine and the backhand deals when you’re actually in parliament.
Presumably when he realised his new job didnt empower him to machine gun brown people in small boats from the white cliffs of Dover.
Well, yeah, obviously.
Council chambers aren’t a permanent PMQs where you just jeer and make silly political jokes at your opponents’ expense.
You have to review and approve budgets, sit on licensing committees, decide on planning applications, etc. Local government is not very exciting and anything interesting you could get passionate about like redesigning a bad roundabout or adding cycle lanes or building a thousand houses take years to even consult and approve, let alone spades in the ground doing the work.
At what point do we need to start clawing back the public money these idiots are waisting?
Did he expect daily cobra meetings. Any party that has this happen should be made to return the funds spent on the election back to the Local Authority from their funds
Populists just love campaigning. Once it’s not leaflets with their names all over and telling everybody how great they are, and actually doing the work of governing, they’re out
“In one of Martin’s posts on his Facebook page shortly after the first full council meeting of the new administration, he described the job of a councillor as “so dull and boring”, further saying that “Barry doesn’t do dull and boring”.
In the same post he also wrote “do I really wanna do this?” saying the role involved “endless boring meetings” and “the pay is so poor for all u do”.”
What was he expecting? He was a councillor, not James Bond
His boss made it look like all you have to do is say how bad immigration is and head to the pub for photos. Then all the cash comes rolling in. He didn’t realise there was actually meetings and stuff
The councillor role should immediately go to the election runner-up in cases like these
Do these wannabe councillors watch local politics? It is dull and boring, and it’s very easy to find out what happens in the meetings…
> he described the job of a councillor as “so dull and boring”, further saying that “Barry doesn’t do dull and boring”.
Good for you Barry, good for you.
Who in their right mind DOESN’T think local council work would be full and boring????!
That’s why you’ve got to be a special kind of nutter (like me and most other public servants) to actually enjoy or want to do the work.
If you wanted high pay and no responsibility, go be a consultant for a bank.
“If the king got his own way all the time, we’d still be fighting a damned rebellion”
This quote from Game of Thrones has been popping into my head alot over the past few days. Seems like alot of these Reform shaggers just wanted to campaign and get other people out, without a plan, or even desire, to do the job they are campaigning for
He posts non stop illegible drivel in his local fb group. He turned comments off all his posts after he was getting the word out he was hiding football cards in the local park bushes for kids to find. Also people started talking about his questionable behaviour back when he was a teacher.
Creeper behaviour.
This is what happens when you elect from a pool of whoever is in the pub on a random midweek afternoon
Probably thought he’d be overturning all those Sharia laws taking over Staffordshire.
clearly he thought he would be stood on the banks of the staffordshire union canal stopping them boats full of immigrants landing.
But we cannot call their voters idiots because it will hurt their feelings, even though there is more than enough evidence to point out why voting Reform was stupid.
Barry is genuinely like an onion, so many layers of weird unhinged shit. If it wasn’t all available for us to see online, you’d think it was all made up. He was a teacher too!!
Reform resignation counter
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Probably get replaced by Reform councillor at this point, someone else who’ll go into the council looking for “look at this useless shit they’re wasting your money on” and find out nothing exists to blame