27/10/2026
We’ve had racism, white nationalist content top fans, Pride displays banned in libraries, racist and homophobic cabinet members, and utter incompetence.
So, what could possibly be next for Staffordshire County Council?
Well, make way for… drum roll please 🥁
Conspiracy theorists!
Hayley Coles, the new Leader of Staffordshire County Council, appears to be quite the conspiracy enthusiast.
A keen poster in the Facebook group ‘Chemtrails UK’, sharing photographs of clouds in the sky, she has also posted in another group about the so-called “Panscamic”, described jabs as “manipulation”, and complained about the World Health Organisation’s supposed “crimes against humanity”.
You really couldn’t make it up.
We’ve almost come to expect this level of nonsense from those running our county, but that doesn’t make it any less infuriating.
Staffordshire deserves serious leadership. People who are focused on improving our communities, supporting local services and tackling the very real challenges facing residents. Not individuals seemingly more interested in conspiracy theories about clouds and vaccines.
To see our county represented in this way is embarrassing, upsetting and, frankly, shameful.
Staffordshire deserves better than becoming a laughing stock.
