🚨BREAKING: Full Council at Basildon TONIGHT. The monthly event that somehow manages to be more dramatic than EastEnders. It is NEVER dull. Tonight you will hear Reform UK become the official opposition, we will push to protect the Green Belt, and we will fight for action to protect our borough from fly-tipping. The chamber is usually packed, so get there for 6.30pm. We need every single one of you there. Come and watch democracy up close.

We live in crazy times.

🚨REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY: It will be one of the greatest honours of my life as Mayor to lead Basildon’s Remembrance Parade and speak at our service on Sunday 8th November. We will set off at 10.45am, ahead of the service at 11am, as Basildon comes together to remember those who served, sacrificed and never came home. This is bigger than politics. It is about respect, gratitude and remembering the freedoms generations before us fought to protect. Please come and stand with me, our veterans and our community. We will remember them.

🚨WATCH THIS: A brazen shoplifter makes a run for it… and a woman sticks her leg out and sends him FLYING. Bravo. It might look like instant karma, but there is a serious point here… Why do career criminal thieves think they can steal and walk away? Reform UK will ensure every case will be properly investigated and repeat offenders to face escalating penalties. Stealing should face real consequences.

🚨SHOCKING: An 83-year-old woman had a GUN pressed to her temple and a KNIFE held to her throat by an illegal migrant, in her OWN home. Chirag Solanki was found with a firearm, a five-inch knife, cable ties, duct tape and a balaclava after breaking into the couple’s home in Lanarkshire. He was in the UK illegally. That raises a very serious question… Why was someone with no lawful right to remain still here at all? Tory and Labour Governments have promised control of our borders. Reform UK will finally make sure this happens, we cannot continue to put British lives at risk.

This is horrendous.

🚨BREAKING: GIFT OSONDU, 23, was caught with a concealed KNIFE in the middle of Basildon Town Centre. Essex Police stopped him in St Martin’s Square after officers became suspicious when he turned away from them on an illegal e-scooter. This is exactly why Reform UK support proactive policing/stop and searches. That's ANOTHER knife taken off our streets.

🚨BREAKING: Chicken shops are “creating a loophole” for low-skill mass immigration and illegal migrants. More than 3,600 takeaway shops in Britain “sponsor” worker visas. Reform UK will end this scam. We will audit every visa sponsor and prosecute fraudsters. What do you think of our pledge?

🚨SHOCKING: Last night, a young woman was GLASSED IN THE FACE after refusing unwanted advances by one of our “undesirables” in Billericay. She was left outside the Crown Pub, ALONE, where she suffered a seizure before members of the public, police and paramedics came to help. Basildon Hospital have been praised for the care they gave her. This is absolutely sickening. No woman should ever be attacked because she said NO. The circumstances surrounding the pub’s security and lack of intervention and support need to be fully investigated. My thoughts are with this young woman and her family. Reform UK are firm that women should be able to go out in public without fearing violence from certain communities who do not respect them.

🚨BREAKING: 29 immigration arrests in just TWO WEEKS… right here in Basildon. Essex Police stopped vehicles and 29 illegal migrants were arrested on suspicion of immigration offences. Well done to them for doing the right thing. Reform UK are very clear on this, if people are here unlawfully AND supplementing the gig economy, identify them, detain them and remove them.

🚨STATEMENT: The Tories may have won yesterday, but they now know Reform UK is coming for EVERY seat. Firstly, congratulations to Gavin Taylor on his election victory. I have won three elections in recent times and I know just how emotional and special that moment is. Secondly, I could not be prouder of Denise Martin, our volunteers and every resident who backed us. Let’s be clear… out of all 14 wards across the borough, Billericay East is probably the hardest for Reform UK to crack. Yet we held our ground and maintained our core support from May despite everything thrown at Reform nationally. And look what it took to stop us… 5 MPs, 2 Shadow Ministers, the Conservative Party Chief Whip and nearly 50 Young Conservatives fighting over a Town Council seat they spent weeks telling everyone “didn’t matter”. Now their candidate will sit as an independent after campaigning under the Conservative banner for six weeks. Even he appears embarrassed by the association, and frankly, who can blame him? They won this battle. Fine. But Reform UK will contest every ward, every council and every level of government. We made them sweat for six weeks, and their celebrations today tell you exactly how nervous they were. And Richard Holden can grin like a Cheshire Cat today if he wants. Every doorstep we knock, every election we fight and every vote we earn takes us one step closer to the next General Election. You can run, Richard. You cannot hide from the ballot box. Reform UK is coming for your seat, politically, democratically and relentlessly. Mark my words.

🚨BREAKING: A Conservative voter threatened to SHOOT me at a polling station yesterday, in Billericay East. A fellow Reform UK Councillor and I were forced to leave Billericay, and abandon our polling day operation, after threats to kill us were made by who I can only describe as an absolute lunatic. I will not be bullied out of public life, let me make myself very clear on that. Challenge my politics all you like but threaten me with a gun, and you cross a line that cannot be ignored.

A huge welcome to Cllr Valerie Robbins. Britain is broken, only Reform UK will fix it.

🚨BREAKING: Cllr Valerie Robbins of Langdon Hills has DEFECTED to Reform UK, with immediate effect. Reform UK are now the OFFICIAL opposition at Basildon Council. I am incredibly proud to welcome her to our group. Valerie has watched what we have built over the last 18 months. Standing up for residents, challenging the establishment and proving there is a serious alternative to the same tired parties. She believes, as we do, that Britain is broken and needs courage, energy and real leadership to fix it.

🚨UPDATE: Labour policies of putting illegal migrants and benefits Britain first is going to DESTROY this country. Reform UK puts hard working British people at the forefront of everything we do, and that’s why Nigel Farage will be our next Prime Minister.

🚨BREAKING: I am SHOCKED. Listen to this WILD speech about ILLEGAL MIGRANTS from Colchester City Council. Apparently, they’re feeling scared and invaded in Essex by Operation Vanguard. I have NEVER heard so much tosh. A Reform UK Government will defend our borders by detaining and deporting ALL illegal migrants. That’s facts. – at Colchester, England

🚨BREAKING: Cllr Peter Harris and Reform UK Essex County Council sign the executive order to set up the Greater Essex Combined Authority. Time for a Reform UK Mayor of Essex. – at Chelmsford, East

🚨UPDATE: It is always lovely meeting women in our community who simply want the best for their family, their community and their country. That is what politics should be about, listening to ordinary people, protecting what matters and giving families HOPE for the future. Reform UK’s promise is simple… put Britain first, back our communities and make this country GREAT AGAIN.