Some in the UK want to cancel democracy in order to save democracy.

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“Let the people vote,” says Nigel Farage as a national newspaper reports county leaders have specifically cited the risk that his Reform UK party could win the English council elections in their arguments to cancel them.

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Elections in seven English county councils, already postponed one year, may be postponed again. Brexit pioneer and Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage has launched a campaign against any further denial of a chance to vote to millions of Britons, while pointing out those councils who shout loudest about the need to postpone elections are those where sitting councillors are most likely to lose their seats to his surging populist party.

Elections in seven councils, covering over five million voters in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Surrey, East and West Sussex, and Hampshire, were postponed until 2026, as the government pushed to transform the structure of local government. Councils would become larger and have more powerful directly elected mayors, but this process is taking years and it was argued to the central government that having elections during this process would be wasteful.

Now, The Times claims to have seen submissions from several councils “lobbying hard” for elections to be denied yet again, and incredibly Council leaders are directly referencing the possibility that Nigel Farage’s party could win the votes as a justification to cancel the ballots. One unnamed Council leader is reported to have argued that Reform would “probably” win, which would “frustrate progress” with the local government restructuring.

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