A newly elected Reform UK council has abolished a flooding committee, despite other parties calling for it to be saved.
Lincolnshire County Council’s Flood and Water Management Scrutiny Committee was axed by the party which took control of the authority in this month’s elections.
New Reform council abolishes flood committee, BBC
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Union leader warns Reform’s cuts and anti-net zero agenda poses risk to fire service
Firefighters’ union leader Steve Wright has warned that Reform’s electoral advances pose a risk to public safety, especially in areas where wildfires are an increasingly common occurrence.
The total area burnt by wildfires this year is already bigger than any year in over a decade. Wright said that the FBU would resist cuts from figures like Andrea Jenkyns, who this morning became Reform’s first metro mayor in Greater Lincolnshire.
Jenkyns has promised to launch a “Lincolnshire DOGE”, echoing Trump’s cuts agenda. She is also a member of the board of ‘Net Zero Watch’, which lobbies against action on climate change.
Union leader warns Reform’s cuts and anti-net zero agenda poses risk to fire service, fbu.org.uk