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LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION — 17 YEARS TOO LATENigel Farage has described Labour’s latest local government plans as ...
08/09/2026

LOCAL GOVERNMENT REORGANISATION — 17 YEARS TOO LATE

Nigel Farage has described Labour’s latest local government plans as “an unmitigated disaster” and says Reform “put our money where our mouth is” by challenging them through the courts.

Following judicial reviews brought by Reform-led councils, the Government has now withdrawn its decisions in Essex, Hampshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, while a further 14 areas have been paused and reviewed.

“Only Reform had the backbone to stand up to these reckless plans", Nigel commented.

And that brings us neatly back to Macclesfield. Where was that backbone 17 years ago?

Back in 2009, Hazel Blears was pushing through the creation of Cheshire East and Cheshire West & Chester councils. Macclesfield lost its borough council and local accountability was replaced by a much larger, centralised structure.

If only there had been a political party with the backbone to challenge that decision then.

Instead, we waited 17 years for politicians to start talking seriously about local government, accountability and putting power closer to communities.

As Nigel puts it: “Only Reform backs real democracy.”

Macclesfield and Cheshire East could have done with that backbone in 2009 — not 2026. We are living proof that devolution for Macclesfield Borough Council residents and tax payers, has been nothing short of a complete and utter failure 💙

How to vandalise our streets.These three photographs from Prestbury, Congleton and Poynton show the reality of highway r...
07/09/2026

How to vandalise our streets.

These three photographs from Prestbury, Congleton and Poynton show the reality of highway repairs under Cheshire East Council.

This is not what taxpayers should be paying for.

When decisions affecting Poynton, Prestbury and surrounding communities are made by centralised officers based in Crewe, local accountability is lost. The people making the decisions are increasingly removed from the communities they are responsible for, and that matters.

Contractors need to know that their work will be inspected, challenged and, where necessary, rejected. When that scrutiny is lacking, standards inevitably fall.

The result is poor workmanship, wasted public money and repairs that may need to be done again. Taxpayers pay for the original work, then potentially pay again to put it right, while residents, businesses and motorists face further disruption, road closures and delays.

This is why we oppose the current direction of so-called "devolution". Moving power further away from local communities and concentrating decisions in larger, centralised structures does not automatically improve services. In many cases, it does the opposite.

There is a fundamental difference between managing a budget and having genuine local accountability. When you are spending your own money, you demand value for it. When you are spending somebody else's money, there can be far less personal consequence when things go wrong.

For years, taxpayers have been told that lessons will be learned. Yet too often the same mistakes are repeated, contractors are allowed to get away with substandard work and nobody appears willing to take responsibility.

The level of frustration and mistrust towards Cheshire East Council is now far greater than many people remember from the days of Macclesfield Borough Council.

There was a much stronger sense of local ownership then. The people responsible for managing local services were based in the communities they served. They understood the character of the area and had a personal stake in maintaining it.

That connection matters.

You cannot replace local pride and accountability simply by moving decision-making 35km down the road to Crewe.

Power should be closer to the people affected by the decisions, not increasingly concentrated in centralised offices miles away.

We deserve better.

This is not acceptable. Reform UK will continue to challenge the council to deliver value for money, demand proper scrutiny of contractors and ensure those responsible are held to account.

Macclesfield Matters.
People first; politics second. 💙

Remember the Adlington New Towns development?It was defeated, despite the best efforts of the leadership of Cheshire Eas...
05/09/2026

Remember the Adlington New Towns development?

It was defeated, despite the best efforts of the leadership of Cheshire East Council to help it through.

The CEC Leader and Deputy Leader both signed a letter supporting the development. They now describe it as the “badly worded letter”.

That letter hasn't simply disappeared because the application was defeated. It could now become part of the background when Belport returns with its planning application for up to 1,200 homes on Green Belt land in Adlington.

But there is a much bigger issue here, and this is where Tim Roca MP needs to answer some uncomfortable questions.

It is all very well standing in Adlington and presenting yourself as someone who will fight inappropriate development and protect local communities.

But you cannot simultaneously support the national policies that are driving that development and then pretend you are somehow standing outside the consequences.

That isn't standing up for local people. It's having your cake and eating it.

Roca voted with the Labour Government for its housing and planning policy framework. That framework has changed the way Green Belt is treated, introduced the concept of “Grey Belt” and increased the pressure on councils to deliver housing.

And we are already seeing what that means locally.

The Prestbury Road Green Belt development was approved by the Planning Inspectorate despite Cheshire East Council having refused it.

This is the reality people need to understand. The ability of local councils and communities to resist development has been increasingly constrained by national planning policy.

So if you vote to enable the system, you don't get to wash your hands of the consequences when that system starts delivering developments in your own backyard.

This is where the accusation of NIMBYism cuts both ways.

You can't support a national policy that demands more development, makes Green Belt release easier and places greater pressure on local authorities, then turn around when that development reaches your constituency and say “not here”.

That isn't principle. It's political convenience.

And there is something particularly conceited about opposing locally what you have helped enable nationally, while expecting residents not to notice the contradiction.

Meanwhile, we already have more than a million homes across England with planning permission that haven't been built, alongside huge numbers of empty and derelict properties that could potentially be brought back into use.

So why is the answer always to look towards another field, another Green Belt site and another local community?

Build where there is a genuine need. Regenerate brownfield land. Bring empty and derelict properties back into use. Make developers deliver the permissions they already have.

But don't pretend that destroying Green Belt is inevitable when the Government has made political choices that have brought us to this point.

If you want more Green Belt development, less local control and more planning decisions driven by national targets, keep voting Labour.

But if you vote for the policies that create the problem, don't stand in front of the consequences and pretend you had nothing to do with them.

That's not leadership.

That's politics.

The slow march from Marxism to CommunismAndy Burnham made his position clear in his maiden speech to Parliament. He want...
02/09/2026

The slow march from Marxism to Communism

Andy Burnham made his position clear in his maiden speech to Parliament. He wants more devolution.

Of course he does! We are constantly told that devolution means giving power to local communities. But look at what has actually happened to Macclesfield.

We had Macclesfield Borough Council. Then our decisions were moved to the much larger Cheshire East Council in the name of "devolution".

Now we are being asked to accept an even bigger structure covering Cheshire East Cheshire West and Warrington with yet another politician in the form of a Cheshire Mayor, in the name of "devolution"

How exactly does taking decisions further away from Macclesfield give Macclesfield more control?

It doesn't. It gives us less. We don't need more politicians more civil servants or more expensive offices. We already have plenty of government. What we need is better management of the structures we already have and better value for the money taxpayers are putting into them.

Instead we get bigger structures and more bureaucracy while the real problems are kicked further down the road and we are blindly and ignorantly, allowing this to happen in the name of "devolution". In the future, this push for "local control" as they call it, will be regarded as foolhardy, costly and we will be asking ourselves, why? Why did we allow this to happen?

Our town hall has been closed and left to rot while decisions about our town have increasingly been moved further away from the people who live here.

This isn't localism. It is centralisation dressed up as devolution. It is bigger government bigger bureaucracy and less local accountability.

At Reform Macclesfield, we don't agree with it.

We don't believe the answer to poor management is more management. We don't believe the answer to inefficient government is more government.

And we certainly don't believe that taking decisions further away from local people is somehow giving them more power.

The direction of travel is clear, more government, less local control.

And we know where that road leads.

It seems our "work pool" is diminishing by the week and it's only going to get worse this winter.Unemployment rising, jo...
30/08/2026

It seems our "work pool" is diminishing by the week and it's only going to get worse this winter.

Unemployment rising, job adverts dwindling, yet Labour just stick their head in the sand and instead go to Sainsbury's and have a go at putting stock on shelves (they didn't rotate so they'd be in trouble from day 1!), whilst asking their largest donor to "create" some breathing space for them.

At Reform we are backing those who want to work, who go to work to keep the wheels of the economy turning. And so, it's only right that we support those doing the hard graft, working to keep people on benefits, working to pay for illegal migrant hotels, hostels, HMOs, healthcare, mobile phones, etc etc.

Under a Reform Government, you WON'T be taxed on your overtime, and why should you? You've worked damned hard to make your life better and so, you should have a break from supporting everyone else and have a little something for yourself.

It's simple. Stop this nonsense. Vote Reform at every opportunity 💙

The MSM don't want Reform and they will try everything to discredit us. Attacks on Nigel and his family, Richard Tice, Z...
29/08/2026

The MSM don't want Reform and they will try everything to discredit us. Attacks on Nigel and his family, Richard Tice, Zia Yusuf. We did warn that this would come and it's not alien to us. We get called racists, fascists, idiots, vile, nasty all the time by the rainbow worshipping devil cult, mainly.

This winter is about to get real bad. Taxes Higher, Energy Bills Higher, Cost of Living Higher, Inflation Higher, Unemployment Higher and the NHS on its knees.

The only way out of this mess, is to vote Reform at every opportunity 💙

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27/08/2026

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💙 Macclesfield Reform UK – Get Involved 💙 Do you have skills, experience or professional knowledge that you believe coul...
26/08/2026

💙 Macclesfield Reform UK – Get Involved 💙

Do you have skills, experience or professional knowledge that you believe could make a positive difference to Macclesfield?

We are looking to hear from local people who want to become more involved in their community and contribute their time, experience and ideas.

Whether you have experience in business, finance, communications, campaigning, community work, administration or other areas, there may be an opportunity for you to get involved.

If you would like to find out more about what we do locally and how you could contribute, please get in touch.

Contact Alan Miles, Chair of Macclesfield Reform UK and enquire how you can help shape a better future for us all in Macclesfield.

[email protected]

Migration, crime and the data — Macclesfield deserves answersFor years, the public has been told that there is no meanin...
26/08/2026

Migration, crime and the data — Macclesfield deserves answers

For years, the public has been told that there is no meaningful connection between migration and sexual offending.

Yet in several European countries, published statistics show that people from migrant backgrounds can be significantly over-represented in sexual-offence figures compared with their share of the population.

That raises an obvious question for Britain, where is the equivalent data?

The public should not have to rely on speculation, social media claims or competing political narratives.

We need clear, consistent figures showing nationality, immigration status and offending rates, alongside the appropriate population data, so that the issue can be properly scrutinised.

If the evidence shows there is no significant relationship, publish it.

If the evidence shows there are disparities, publish those too. Either way, the British public deserves the facts, no spin, just the data.

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