Cllr Aron Webb - Denton North East

04/11/2026

And we will do it again and again if we have to!

Tameside Residents should have a voice 🇬🇧

04/11/2026

‼️ BIG WIN FOR TAMESIDE‼️

All Councillors for the borough were pulled into an extraordinary meeting with the Tameside Council at Dukinfield Town Hall, about proposed constitutional changes to planning decisions, including how green belt land gets handled.

The changes were another attempt to strip councillors of the ability to properly question, scrutinise, and, where residents have real concerns, push back.

That means taking away the voice that people elect us to have. You put a vote in the ballot box so your local councillor can stand up for you and make those concerns heard. This is how democracy works!

Thankfully we turned up, and with the help of the Conservatives, Independent Group and Independent Councillors, it was voted down 29 - 26. The first council to vote this down twice in the same month!

If needs be we’ll do the same again, twice a month until next May when the residents can remove the Labour Party councillors that are not listening to them.

Have a good day everyone! 🇬🇧

31/10/2026

Great work everyone! Really positive news for Ashton!

Great effort today in Ashton-under-Lyne. Town I spent around 10 years in total. Team of five felt like a having 20 people. That’s what drive, knowledge and experience means.

A lot of houses knocked. In hundreds.
Not just people we haven’t spoken to, there are not that many of them left after last year local election to be fair.

Almost all undecided or considering people are now voting Reform. Most of legal settled immigrants vote or consider Reform. Even few who vote for other parties appreciated our effort.

Well well above 50% of people we didn’t have data of or were undecided go for Reform.

If 7th May 2026 election was a success data for next year look MUCH stronger. And that’s before announcing our great and very local British candidates.

And Ashton is not even the strongest place for Reform Tameside.

28/10/2026

28/10/2026

I was there at the Tameside Council meeting on the 6th of October where I also voted this down. It was disappointing to see an Independent advisor to the council have like this given that we were all exercising our right to vote democratically on behalf of those that elected us.

This clearly is something that the residents of Tameside agree with considering that this post has had 1,000,000 views in just over 24 hours!!!

Vote Reform, Save Tameside 🇬🇧 🩵

24/10/2026

Fantastic. Good work everyone.

24/10/2026

This past week, myself, Zach Dale - Reform UK and Adam Mitula - Reform UK spent a few days in Warsaw, the capital of Poland. We got to see what a thriving, functioning and God fearing country looks like 🇵🇱

A Polish MP personally invited us to visit the Sejm (their parliament building) on the last day which was an experience to say the least and a once in a lifetime opportunity for me. Whilst in there I was interviewed by one of their main news channels about the issues in France at the minute and what tensions are like in the UK.

The rest of the time we just had a look around the city ourselves. The difference between the UK and Poland hits you instantly. Warsaw is clean and looked after. You barely see any homelessness. The cost of living is much better too.

Women walk around on their own at night without constantly looking over their shoulder. The police are present everywhere and are seen regularly walking in pairs and looking professional. People seem to have a healthy fear and respect for them.

People are quietly proud of their country instead of being embarrassed by it. This is evident as the Polish flag is everywhere you look and placards on walls and in parks with their history laid out for all to see.

Poland has had a rough history. It was taken over, split up, and then stuck under communism for years. They lost a huge number of people in the Second World War. And it still managed to rebuild itself into one of the best capital cities in Europe, possibly the world.

If they can do that after everything they’ve been through, there’s no reason the UK can’t sort itself out as well.

Going back to local matters. I am desperate for Tameside to also tick all the above and ultimately the UK as a whole.

Warsaw showed me what great looks like. It is not impossible. It just needs hard work and the will to be better.

Disclaimer: No EU flags were injured during this trip. I am personally not a fan of the EU but Poland are a part of it and so that is why they are in some of the photos 😀

24/10/2026

🚨 Cllr Allan Hopwood, Leader of the Tameside Reform UK Group, has written an open letter to the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham ‼️

Residents across Tameside are feeling the impact of Home Office asylum contracts on local housing. Tameside saw the highest average rent increases in the country between 2019 and 2024.

Contractors such as Serco are approaching landlords with guaranteed, long-term, above-market rents, competing with local residents for homes and pushing prices up beyond wages and Local Housing Allowance rates. Ordinary family homes are also being taken out of the local market for these contracts.

The letter asks the Prime Minister to:

1. End the procurement of new asylum accommodation in Tameside (as the Home Office has already agreed with Wigan).

2. Cap what contractors may pay landlords at Local Housing Allowance rates.

If the government will not act, a Reform-led Tameside Council will use every available power, including rigorous HMO licensing, planning enforcement and inspection of every Home Office property in the borough.

This is unfair, and it has to stop NOW!

23/10/2026

22/10/2026

Many of these grids also sit on unadopted land and when clogged also causes major flooding issues to residents houses. Better work needs to be done with the way in which Tameside Council works with third party contractions, private land lords and United Utilities

‼️ THE GULLY CLEANING WARNING WAS THERE - NOW THE REPORT CONFIRMS IT ‼️

When Cllr. Audra Murray Reform Uk raised blocked gullies and flooding at Full Council, It was asked why Tameside Council was unable to complete it’s planned gully-cleaning programme, how many gullies were overdue, and when residents could expect the backlog to be cleared.

The answer was not clear enough. The new report now confirms the underlying problem. There are not enough staff and resources to keep up with the work.

Tameside has around 48,000 road gullies. The Highways Asset Management Plan requires 55,256 cleanses each year, because higher-risk routes need more frequent attention.

Yet the current service has two gully wagons and six skilled operatives. Even under ideal conditions, this provides capacity for around 39,750 cleanses a year. In reality, staff are repeatedly diverted to reactive flooding and emergency work, so planned cleanses are missed and the backlog grows.

This did not happen overnight. The service previously had more capacity, but resources were reduced over time. Residents are now seeing the consequences: blocked gullies, standing water, flooded roads and, in some cases, water threatening homes.

The Council’s own evidence says that around £370,000 of additional annual investment is needed to restore capacity to approximately 58,000 cleanses a year.

This also exposes a wider skills failure. Tameside has residents who want secure work and a route into practical careers, yet the Council says it lacks the skilled capacity to keep basic drainage maintenance on track.

We need immediate recruitment of qualified operatives, alongside a paid highways and drainage apprenticeship or traineeship route for local people. That would build a reliable local workforce, create real careers and help stop the cycle of missed cleanses and reactive flooding work.

Prevention is cheaper, safer and more responsible than waiting until a road or home floods.

The Reform Tameside Group will continue pressing for:

1. a published ward-by-ward cleansing programme
2. the number of gullies overdue and missed
3. clear timescales for clearing the backlog
4. proper funding for staff and gully wagons
5. a local skills route into these essential frontline jobs.

Residents should not have to wait for flooding before basic drainage maintenance is taken seriously.