County Councillor Jody Stoll

09/09/2026

⏰🪖 Final Call for Veterans

There are only a handful of places left on these free coach trips for veterans to the Imperial War Museum (North)

08/09/2026

Another great job to see Foxwood Lane and Bank Hill and sections of Main Street in Woodborough resurfaced over the last few weeks. I'd like to thank residents for their patience in waiting for the scheme to be scheduled and then the disruption whilst it was done. It's now a pleasure to drive!

Always will be more work to do and I'll be pushing for further work to be done on Main Street in due course.

08/09/2026

How We Forced Angela Rayner & Labour to Halt Its Nottinghamshire Carve-Up

Because there was a wider strategy at play.

Labour forced local government reorganisation upon Nottinghamshire. It was never in their 2024 election manifesto. Ignoring it, pretending it would go away and doing nothing was NOT an option. We had to put forward a proposal, and the realistic choice was whether Gedling or Rushcliffe joined Nottingham City and Broxtowe.

Neither option was ideal and I recognised no one wanted it. However, the analysis carried out by financial experts PwC showed that the Gedling option, known as 1B, was the stronger option financially and geographically, as well as with closer integrated transport and social care links. It also followed the Government’s guidance framework that they published about how they would implement LGR by using existing boroughs and districts intact and as building blocks creating the new Councils with around 500k residents each.

But we also war-gamed what the Labour Government and Labour ran Nottingham City Council would do next.

We predicted that Labour-run Nottingham City Council would produce its own plan, carving up Gedling, Broxtowe and Rushcliffe. We also predicted that the Labour Government would choose it, despite it departing from the framework they had originally set. And that's exactly what they did.

By us putting forward the strongest viable option within their framework, we ensured that if Labour moved the goalposts (which they did) , we would be in the strongest possible position to launch a legal challenge against the entire process.

If our prediction had been wrong and 1B had been selected, it was still the least-worst and most evidence-based option available. But our wider political strategy was always to stop local government reorganisation altogether, or at least delay it long enough for a future government to reconsider it.

Labour did exactly what we predicted. Not only in Nottinghamshire, but the same happened in other councils up and down the country. Reform councils responded with legal challenges and preparations for judicial reviews.

Now, just two months later, the secretary of state Angela Rayner has been forced to pause the entire process. Labour has essentially capitulated because it clearly has no confidence that its decisions could survive proper legal challenge.

I always opposed Gedling being absorbed into the city then, and I oppose it now. My vote was never an endorsement of Labour’s reorganisation. It was part of a wider, carefully considered strategy to stop it.

Let me be clear, if we had not put forward an option, we would have had no basis to challenge the decision legally. The government chosen City option would have proceeded unimpeded and they would have proceeded with the carve up of our county.

07/09/2026

**Park Lane, Lambley Resurfacing update**

Pleased to say that the resurfacing and road surface improvement works on Park Lane, Lambley are provisionally scheduled to take place between **26 October and 20 November**.

These dates are weather and materials dependent, so they may change, but this is the current programme and road closures are planned during this period.

I’ll keep residents updated as we get closer and once the dates are confirmed.

07/09/2026

LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION IN DISARRAY ACROSS NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

Angela Rayner is set to pause the process of Local Government Reorganisation in Nottinghamshire and a cross the country with Labour’s timetable for it now scrapped. District council elections next year should now go ahead next year on the existing boundaries

The Nottingham City Labour leader’s preferred option is now mired in chaos and shows the complete dissarray in Labour.

Reform UK threatened legal action. Labour backed down. They are running scared of the electorate and folded.

Gedling and the districts accross the County are safe for now

05/09/2026

Very happy to second Nancy's motion put to the delegates at the Reform UK conference in Birmingham. Very pleased to say it passed unopposed. Well done Nancy! It means it will go to the board within 3 months to be discussed and could become a manifesto item in the future.

“A Reform UK Government to replace the Public Sector Equality Duty with a statutory Public Duty of Impartiality, ensuring public authorities exercise“

Dr Kelvin Wright for Worksop South

03/09/2026

My personal opinion, but Nottinghamshire Police have got this wrong.

The detained man reportedly called England a “dirty nation”, described English people as “animals” and abused the officers calling them “English bastards”. The officer’s response was clearly unprofessional, but dismissing a police sergeant with reportedly more than 20 years’ service was completely disproportionate and overkill.

Chief Constable Steve Cooper said the officer’s behaviour had “the potential to discredit the police service and undermine the public’s confidence in policing”.

I believe this decision will do far more to undermine public confidence in policing. Particularly at a time when trust in policing is already low following shocking cases such as Henry Nowak, who was handcuffed while fatally wounded and repeatedly telling officers he had been stabbed and told as he lay dieing with the now infamous words "I don't think you have mate".

If somebody considers England filthy and calling the English people “animals”, it is perfectly reasonable to ask why they choose to remain here. We have already seen the terrible consequences of attitudes such as his that dehumanised white English girls and treat them as beneath contempt such as in Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford and elsewhere.

The officer, doing his duty and serving the public on shift at Mansfield Police Station, was clearly wrong to rise to the provocation, but a final warning, further training and welfare support would have been proportionate and a better outcome. Nottinghamshire Police have instead gone nuclear and ended an experienced officer’s career.

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https://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/news/nottinghamshire/news/news/2026/september/misconduct-hearing-officer-dismissed-after-using-discriminatory-language-at-custody-suite/

03/09/2026

I'm glad Lee Anderson has backed a referendum on the death penalty. I agree it should be debated and put to the people. Personally, I've always been against it. Life in prison in a concrete cell is not a walk in the park. However, for the most serious crimes and for peope such as Axel Rudukabana certainly make me reconsider it. I'd be interested in hearing other people's views .

🚨BREAKING: Reform UK party chairman Lee Anderson has backed having a referendum on reintroducing the death penalty in the UK.

Who else agrees that we should have a referendum on this?