Reform UK Redbridge

04/11/2026

If your house had leaking roofs, crumbling stonework and wiring so old it needed fire patrols around the clock, you'd fix it. Westminster hasn't. 🔥

The Commons Public Accounts Committee warns the Palace of Westminster faces "real and rising risks", including a "Notre Dame-style" fire. The Guardian reports the maintenance bill is about £1.5m a week and is expected to reach £2m without action.

The options on the table could cost up to £40bn and take as long as 61 years. The committee wants a timetable to help a decision on the main project in 2030.

Even the committee chair, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, blames a "political allergy" to making decisions.

That's the whole problem with the old parties in one sentence. Every year they put off a choice, you pay more and get nothing for it.

Reform UK says: make a decision, cut the waste and get on with it.

Should MPs stop dithering and decide? Tell us below 👇

04/11/2026

Sitting in a seaside cafe with a plate of chips, tearing open a little sachet of ketchup. It's about as British as it gets. 🍟

Now Brussels has a rule for that too. The EU's ban on single-serving sachets of ketchup, mayonnaise, sugar, salt, oil and vinegar will apply in Northern Ireland under the Windsor framework.

Asked about it in Parliament, Defra minister Emma Hardy said it will not apply in the rest of the UK under the EU reset. Then came the catch: "A consultation regarding UK alignment is being planned."

It sounds small. That's the point. There's always another rule we're quietly lining up with, from food standards to sauce sachets. Bit by bit, decisions that should be made here are being handed back to Brussels.

Reform UK says Britain makes its own laws. If a sachet ban is right for Britain, our Parliament can decide that for itself.

Did you vote to leave so Brussels could rule on your chips? Tell us below 👇

03/11/2026

You tap in at Ilford, Gants Hill or Wanstead every morning. And every so often, someone barges through the barrier right behind you. 🚇

It isn't harmless. TfL estimates fare evasion costs it about £190m a year, money that honest passengers end up covering. Its evasion rate is stuck at 3.5%, against a target of 1.5% by 2030-31. TfL has also said fare disputes are behind about half of violence and aggression against its staff.

Now plain-clothes British Transport Police officers are working with TfL to catch repeat offenders. In the first month of Operation Vector, 467 people were stopped and 24 arrested. 156 penalty fares were issued and 175 people reported for possible prosecution. Police say some fare dodgers were linked to more serious crime, with weapons and drugs seized.

Reform UK Redbridge backs visible policing on our streets and stations. We'd like to see officers on our Central and Elizabeth line stations too.

Do you see barrier-jumpers on your commute? Tell us below 👇

03/11/2026

Imagine a vote on Britain's future where fewer than one in five voters were British. That's roughly what just happened with Britain's settlement rules. 🛂

The Home Office asked for views on who should earn the right to settle here permanently. According to the official report, 202,241 individuals responded. 73% were current visa holders. Just 18% were British citizens.

On Monday, Shabana Mahmood scrapped her plan to make care workers already here wait up to 15 years. Those earning at least £25,000 who arrived before May 2025 will keep a five-year path to settlement. The Home Office now estimates 1.9m people will settle in the UK between 2026 and 2030.

Reform UK's Robert Jenrick put it simply: "Only 18% of those who responded to Labour's consultation on immigration were even British!" On immigration, Reform UK will listen to one group only: the British people.

Should foreign nationals get a say on who settles in Britain? Tell us below 👇

03/11/2026

🌺 REMEMBERANCE SUNDAY – 8 NOVEMBER 2026 🌺

This Sunday, 8 November, we come together to remember and honour all those who gave their lives in service to our country.

Our Hainault Councillor, Neil Anderson, will be laying two wreaths in remembrance:

📍 Hainault War Memorial – Sunday 8 November

📍 Fairlop Waters – Wednesday 11 November 2026

🌺 Please support the Poppy Appeal, buy a poppy and wear it with pride.

We will remember them. Lest we forget. ❤️

02/11/2026

Shabana Mahmood U-turned on banning migrants from claiming benefits after settling in Britain.

Labour isn't just the party of welfare. It's the party of migrant welfare.

Reform will ban all foreign nationals from claiming benefits and social housing. British welfare for British people only.

02/11/2026

Four days. That's all it took for 1,610 people to cross the Channel in small boats, after more than two weeks with no new arrivals. 🚤

Since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister on 20 July, the total has now passed 10,000. GB News analysis puts it at 10,139, an average of 97.5 people a day. So far this year, 22,608 have made the crossing.

The Government says crossings are down on last year. But a slower flow is still a flow. Every arrival means more pressure on housing, on hotels paid for by taxpayers, and on public services already stretched in places like ours.

Reform UK has a simple answer: those who arrive illegally are detained and deported, so the journey is no longer worth making. That is how the boats stop.

Do you think the Government has the Channel under control? Tell us below 👇

02/11/2026

Some crimes make your blood boil. Targeting elderly and vulnerable people in their own homes is one of them. 🏠

Between 2019 and 2021, a rogue trading gang knocked on doors across Redbridge, claimed urgent repairs were needed and pressured residents into paying for unnecessary, grossly overpriced work. They took at least £174,000 from local homeowners.

The gang was prosecuted at Snaresbrook Crown Court last year. Now a court has ordered more than £167,000 to be paid back under the Proceeds of Crime Act. About £101,000 has already been identified in bank accounts, and the remaining £66,000 is still payable.

Credit where it's due: crime must never pay. But prevention matters most. Always get written quotes, get a second opinion, and never be rushed into work on the doorstep.

Please share this with older relatives and neighbours 👇

01/11/2026

The transatlantic slave trade was one of history's great crimes. Nobody disputes that. But the story we're now being told leaves out the most important chapter. ⚓

Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he is "open" to a formal apology on behalf of the British state, as Commonwealth leaders meet from 1 November. He has ruled out reparations.

Here is what gets left out. Britain's Parliament outlawed the trade: the Slave Trade Act received royal assent on 25 March 1807. Then Britain sent the Royal Navy to stop it. The West Africa Squadron freed about 150,000 Africans, and between 1830 and 1865 almost 1,600 of its sailors died on duty.

No one alive today took part in the trade. Today's taxpayers should not be asked to apologise or pay for it. Reform UK believes we should teach the whole story, including the sacrifice of the men who fought to end it.

Should Britain apologise, or be proud of the fight it led? Tell us below 👇

29/10/2026