"It would not just mean no Pride flag on Pride Day, a debate heard. It would mean no white rose flag on Yorkshire Day, no Rovers flag celebrating the football team winning the league, no St George's flag marking England's Lionesses' Euros triumph, and no green flags celebrating municipal park management achievements in the city's green spaces. The motion was a waste of time and a waste of resources, one councillor said."
"The party recently celebrated 100 days in power in local councils with an extensive press release trumpeting its work, including rolling back the net zero agenda and flying patriotic flags. It boasted of Staffordshire county council's attempt to stop all solar, wind or battery farms, and Kent council cancelling climate-friendly property modifications, as well as other decisions including not upgrading buses to electric vehicles and scrapping EV charging points."
Reform party councillors in several English councils proposed restricting the display of flags to only the union flag, which would ban Pride, Yorkshire Day, football and other local flags. Councillors described the motion as bizarre and a waste of resources. A Reform councillor in Nottinghamshire declared human-made climate change a hoax and called declaring a climate emergency ridiculous, blaming media brainwashing. In Kent, a Reform councillor claimed to have removed trans-ideological books from children's library sections, which later proved untrue. In Durham, the Reform deputy leader pledged to withdraw council funding from Pride events. The party celebrated rolling back net-zero policies and cancelling green initiatives.
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