Community Interest

York City Council has unanimously stripped Sarah Ferguson of the Freedom of the City, just as in October, Hartlepool Borough Council unanimously stripped Peter Mandelson of the Freedom of the Borough. All members of either authority should now leave any party for which Jeffrey Epstein might have voted, or for which Peter Thiel might vote, or for which Noam Chomsky might vote. That is every party in the present House of Commons.

I do not know whether Councillor Aaron Roy was in attendance in October, but I do know that only two days ago, he resigned from the Labour Group because, in his absence, the council had voted to increase council tax by 1.98 per cent despite having promised to freeze it. Still, the Labour Party thanked him for his contribution.

Yet tonight, Nigel Farage is not in Clacton on Question Time, which certainly does have local MPs on the panel from time to time, because he is addressing a rally in Sunderland, where he has announced Councillor Roy's defection to Reform UK, the market leaders in putting up council tax having promised not to do so. As a director of Mariners United Sporting Club CIC, which is mostly notable for kabaddi, Companies House lists Councillor Roy's nationality as Indian.