Conservatives in Preston

27/05/2026

Well done to Adam Brierley and the Conservatives who supported him to victory 💙

22-year-old Adam Brierley beat a current Lancashire County Council cabinet member to win the Fylde Council by-election

26/05/2026

These trees should be preserved, a lime tree can live for 500yrs+ They are doing a great job protecting the river bank and will continue to do so for many more years

Who’s making money out of removing them ?

MP Maya Ellis will chair a meeting with the panel including campaigners, the Environment Agency, and local councillors

13/05/2026

Cllr Brown said he wanted to ensure the new local authority that will replace Preston City Council in 2028 – covering a much wider area – is “set up in the right way”

🤨 What exactly is the ‘correct’ structure for the new system ?

Cllr Brown was re-elected unopposed on Tuesday.

12/05/2026

No one, of any faith, should be targeted because of that faith

09/05/2026

Being critical isn’t ‘hateful’ and anyone who wants to silence you, is showing their authoritarian side 🤓

Threats or incitement to violence, if they are credible, ARE illegal ⚖️

👀🚨 Starmer's MISINFORMATION MAFIA has been EXPOSED.

We've mapped this shadowy network. And it goes all the way to the top.

Morgan McSweeney. Josh Simons. Kate Forrester. Imran Ahmed. Christopher Steele. Liam Byrne MP. All connected. All pushing the same agenda: silence your critics, smear your enemies, demand new laws to stop your political opponents speaking freely.

Simons, when he ran Labour Together, a Starmerite think tank founded by Morgan McSweeney, paid £36,000 to have journalists secretly investigated and falsely branded Russian assets. Those smears were sent to GCHQ. Starmer's "ethics advisor", tasked with investigating this scandal, never read the evidence submitted to him by one of Simons's journalist victims. The ex-Cabinet Office Minister was exonerated.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate — also founded by McSweeney and run by Ahmed from a shared Labour Together office — spent years trying to get media outlets that criticised Starmer's "extreme centrism" defunded or banned on the grounds they were spreading "hate", and lobbying governments on both sides of the Atlantic for sweeping censorship powers.

Steele, the ex-British spy behind the Trump Russiagate dossier, has been writing smears about British public figures in return for fat fees. Byrne, Mr Clean Up Parliament himself, read one out in the Commons verbatim, hiding behind parliamentary privilege. As a result, an innocent man and business rival of one of Steele's paying clients lost £8 million.

And still Starmer's Tufton St Mafia press for more censorship: more Ofcom powers, more platform regulation, more "emergency" controls over what critics of "technocratic managerialism" are allowed say. (Although Simons continues to insist he did nothing wrong, because he believed — wrongly as it transpired — there had been an illegal hack.)

The people who want to police your speech are the last people you should trust to be custodians of the truth.

Full briefing by former investigative journalist and FSU Director of Policy and Research David Rose below ⬇️

08/05/2026

The results are in 🤓

Labour are down 6 councillors, the Conservatives down 3. That’s a change of 9 councillors. The Liberal Democrat’s now have 2 more councillors and Reform now have 5 councillors. Of the Greens, Independents and others, there is no change

The Labour Party now doesn’t have full control of the City Council. Let’s see what changes the newly elected councillors can bring

08/05/2026

Blog Preston have their eye on the election 🗳️ results

Coming soon

We are expecting results very shortly - live from the foyer at Preston Guild Hall.

Turnout is expected to be higher than usual - and some tight results are anticipated.

06/05/2026

Blog Preston has some excellent articles on all the candidates in all Wards. If you want information about your candidate, check out the individual articles available on Facebook

You can also view the recent husting (2hr) on YouTube https://youtu.be/uNUY95mquxM?si=3Wu0RvBnup-odSM9

ASHTON https://www.facebook.com/share/1WjJhZvDxF/?mibextid=wwXIfr

BROOKFIELD https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EB7ajhZPt/?mibextid=wwXIfr

CADLEY https://www.facebook.com/share/18twUkYJrC/?mibextid=wwXIfr

CITY CENTRE https://www.facebook.com/share/1DezJ4tTvf/?mibextid=wwXIfr

DEEPDALE https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EAWxBigGA/?mibextid=wwXIfr

FISHWICK & FRENCHWOOD https://www.facebook.com/share/1B3LDeQE4B/?mibextid=wwXIfr

GARRISON https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1bhFjknsYm/?mibextid=wwXIfr

GREYFRIARS https://www.facebook.com/share/1BPB4WXtsu/?mibextid=wwXIfr

INGOL & COTTAM https://www.facebook.com/share/14cEWxTNxxQ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

LEA & LARCHES https://www.facebook.com/share/14Yj6VA7Jp2/?mibextid=wwXIfr

PLUNGINGTON https://www.facebook.com/share/1HTEy3EDW6/?mibextid=wwXIfr

RURAL EAST https://www.facebook.com/share/1NgUAjKFcM/?mibextid=wwXIfr

RURAL NORTH https://www.facebook.com/share/14deSzrYs3H/?mibextid=wwXIfr

RIBBLETON https://www.facebook.com/share/1GMQy4mFGB/?mibextid=wwXIfr

SHAROE GREEN https://www.facebook.com/share/1EAszfCC3q/?mibextid=wwXIfr

ST MATTHEWS https://www.facebook.com/share/18Y5fVUWsp/?mibextid=wwXIfr

This is the current look of Preston City Council ahead of the 7 May local elections.

Prestonians will go to the polls to elect a councillor in each of the 16 wards where elections are taking place - so that's 16 seats in total up for grabs with Labour defending a majority and hoping to keep control of the council.

It's the final local election to take place under the current city council boundaries as the council is due to see major changes in the next two years as a process known as local government reorganisation takes place to likely create a smaller number of 'super councils' covering Lancashire of which Preston as it stands wants to link up with Ribble Valley and Lancaster.

But who will govern for the final year of the city council existing? 🗳

16/04/2026

A telecommunication company is proposing to place a 50 ft mast yards from St Walburges Church.
St Walburges is a Grade 1 listed building, the highest church spire in the UK and part of the iconic skyline of the City.

Andy Pratt is campaigning against this planning application and supporting local residents but it actually affects everyone in the City.
Please will you object to this planning application.
We have until 23rd April to do so.

The Lostock Hall Conservative Club Blog Preston Andrew Snowden MP

Email: devcon@preston
Promoted by Andy Pratt, Preston Conservative Association, 148 Cop Lane, Preston PR1 0US

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