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USA Today
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- USA Today
Librarians, teachers and others plan day of action to fight book bans and preserve history
Librarians, teachers and others plan day of action to fight book bans and preserve history Show Caption Hide Caption Major publishers and authors are suing Florida over its book ban law Major publishers and authors are suing Florida over its law banning books deemed to have sexual content, saying the law violates free speech. Straight Arrow News In Gainesville, Florida, The Lynx Books will host a screening of 'Banned Together" on its back patio. In Washington, D.C., participants will march on the National Mall stopping at museums to highlight the importance of preserving history. And in Seattle, visitors to some public libraries will join a ''silent read-in'' of banned books. Across the country, librarians, teachers, bookstore owners, civil rights activists and others plan to hold as many as 100 events June 7 as part of Teach Truth Day of Action. The national campaign aims to support the teaching of unvarnished history and to encourage people to read more, including banned books. The actions come in the wake of efforts by the Trump administration and some conservative groups to restrict the teaching of certain history and to ban some books, many written by authors of color. 'This wave of book banning is not new, but now it's being not only supported by the federal government, but the federal government is using it to threaten to withhold funds so it's making it worse," said Rebecca Pringle, president of the National Education Association. 'Now we have more and more who are realizing we need to stand up and we need to use our voice." It's not censorship, but education, some say Dozens of states mostly led by Republicans have adopted or proposed measures that activists said overlook critical parts of Black history or restrict language related to race, sexuality and gender issues in public schools. Some have also restricted what books and materials are available in classrooms, many that focus on race or sexuality. These mostly conservative lawmakers and groups argue that some books are offensive and should be kept from children, and that key parts of Black history are already taught in schools. Jonathan Butcher, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said if school officials decide a book is too sexually graphic for young people, then it shouldn't be in the school library. He said it is the responsibility of the school board and parents to make that decision. 'That's their job,'' Butcher said. 'It is entirely appropriate for school boards and parents to work together and decide what books should be kept on shelves." More: The new Selma? Activists say under DeSantis Florida is 'ground zero' in civil rights fight He said banned books are likely available online or in public libraries and that some claims of censorship are exaggerated. 'I think it's a tactic to make it appear as if censorship is happening, when actually this is what education is about," Butcher said. 'Adults come together, decide what should be taught in sex education, in health ed, in civics and history and they determine what books should be kept on the shelves." March to preserve history Pringle and leaders of libraries and civil rights groups said their concerns and actions extend beyond book bans to pushing back against narrow interpretations of history. 'We last year focused a lot on banned books because obviously those were a lot of the things that were happening in the public square," said Nakeesha J. Ceran, deputy director for Teaching for Change, an advocacy group. 'What feels different in this moment is really the deep concerted effort to undermine all spaces and sites of public education, inclusive of public schools, museums, libraries." The D.C. march, led by Teaching for Change and others, will start at the National Museum of African American History and Culture with stops at the National Museum of American History, the Hirshhorn Museum, the National Air and Space Museum and end at the National Museum of the American Indian. The popular African American history museum has been singled out by President Donald Trump who called its work part of a 'widespread effort to rewrite our nation's history.' Ceran disagreed, saying it's important to educators, students and others to be able to teach the truth about the history of all Americans. 'It also matters in the midst of seeing all of the dismantling that's happening, to be inspired by people, movement and resistance that is happening every day," she said. Reading material impacts 'the culture of a place' In Florida, The Lynx Books will hold a discussion Saturday about book bans and proposals to restrict the teaching of history. It will be followed by a showing of 'Banned Together," a documentary about teenagers fighting book bans. 'In our local community there are a lot of people who are very saddened by the banning of books and the intense curriculum restrictions in Florida and really want to fight against that,' said Viv Schnabel, events and community outreach for the independent bookstore. Lynx sells banned books year-round and hosts a monthly banned-book book club. Up next is 'If Beale Street Could Talk," by James Baldwin. The bookstore has also donated books, including banned ones, to community organizations. ''It's an issue that impacts every single community," Schnabel said. 'What is being taught and what is available for children to read and for everyone to read directly impacts the culture of a place. So I think everyone certainly should care.' 'Working on fighting book bans' Pringle called Florida 'Exhibit A" in the fight against book bans and restrictions on teaching history, but said the pushback is happening in other states as well. 'We have to have activists in every community,'' she said. The Seattle Public Library, for example, is hosting anti-book banning events on June 7, 14 and 21. 'The country is experiencing unprecedented levels of censorship," said Kristy Gale, a teen services librarian there. 'So many people wanted to get tapped into something like this. I think we're going to get a lot of interest from folks who want to support libraries … and the work that we do. " In 2023, the library launched 'Books Unbanned," a free digital collection of audio and e-books, including some that are banned. More than 440,000 books have been checked out, library officials said. 'It's our way of taking our resources that we have and making them available to people in other parts of the nation who don't have the kind of support for libraries or are experiencing censorship,'' said library spokeswoman Elisa Murray. More: Protestors rally to support the national African American museum and Black history Schnabel of The Lynx Books hopes the efforts have impact beyond a day. 'We're working on fighting book bans year-round not just on this day," she said. "But we're excited and hopeful that this day will shed a particular light on the work that we're doing and the work that other people across the nation are doing.'
ITV News
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- ITV News
'Less glamorous than Hot Fuzz': bodycam footage shows Essex officers chasing prolific thief
Bodycam footage shows police chasing Scott Butcher Bodycam footage has been released showing police scaling garden fences to chase down a prolific thief. Scott Butcher fled the rear of a house in Colchester, Essex, where he was staying without the owner's permission, on 28 March after police surrounded the property. The 38-year-old had been identified as the culprit in 11 separate thefts, ten at Co-op stores and one at the Asda store in Shrub End Road. Butcher, of no fixed address, stole cleaning products, meat and sweets, with the highest-value theft worth £230. He was in breach of a Criminal Behaviour Order put in place in September 2023, stopping him from entering any Co-op store in Essex. Officers from the Colchester Local Policing Team managed to catch him and he was arrested before being charged with 11 counts of theft and 10 breaches of his CBO. He was sentenced to eight months in prison at Ipswich Crown Court. Sgt Dean Young said: "It's a little less glamorous and executed with a little less flair than you see in films like Hot Fuzz, but we won't let gates or garden fences get in the way of catching criminals. "I know we can't be everywhere at all times, but I'd like to urge our businesses and residents to feel confident in making reports to us about theft and associated anti-social behaviour."
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Roland Butcher: ‘West Indies are struggling – we've not hit rock bottom yet'
'England have started to experience what West Indies have experienced for the last 10 years.' Roland Butcher rings the bell before the second Test match between the two sides. 'England have started to experience what West Indies have experienced for the last 10 years.' Roland Butcher rings the bell before the second Test match between the two sides. Photograph: Philip Brown/Popperfoto/Getty Images After West Indies secured a one-day series draw against Ireland on Sunday their captain, Shai Hope, was asked about the team's imminent visit to England. 'We played them at the end of last year and we won that series so we know they're going to be coming at us even harder this time,' he said. 'We're looking forward to it. We know they're going to be a tough, tough opponent but we're always ready to play anyone.' Roland Butcher, child of Barbados, once of England and more recently a West Indies selector, has a less optimistic outlook: 'We're struggling, and the struggle is not over. We haven't hit rock bottom yet.' The concentration of power across all three formats in the hands of one coach and selector – Daren Sammy – is what Butcher fears 'is going to finally push us to the bottom'. Advertisement Related: Jimmy Anderson: 'I know my body has got a certain amount of deliveries left in it' Butcher's knowledge of Caribbean cricket is broad and deep, with 15 years as head coach of the University of the West Indies sports academy, one serving on the national team's selection panel alongside another familiar name in Desmond Haynes, and many commentating on matches around the region. He was appointed as a selector in December 2022 but dismissed a year later, with full control of the team eventually handed to Sammy, who picks and also coaches the senior side across all formats as of April this year. 'In Desmond and myself you've got over 100 years of experience at the highest level, still capable, still wanting to contribute,' Butcher says. 'I've moved on and Desmond has moved on as well, but we've got this knowledge, we want to help and they're struggling. 'It was a very left-field change, and not a change that I agree with. Not because I'm no longer a selector, it's just not suitable for somewhere like the West Indies. In 2023, they had the best run they've had for 25 years in terms of results and for some reason they decided to make Daren the only selector and coach. I mean, madness. And it's going to be tested already because they're over here and then in a couple of weeks Australia is arriving for a Test series. I mean, how can you coach three teams? How can you be the only selector for three teams? It's just absolute madness. Advertisement England and Surrey seamer Gus Atkinson has been ruled out of the upcoming Metro Bank One-Day Internationals against the West Indies due to a right hamstring strain. Atkinson sustained the injury during England's Rothesay Test victory over Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge last week. He will now undergo a period of rehabilitation under the supervision of the England medical team. No replacement will be added to the ODI squad. England, led by captain Harry Brook, will contest three ODIs with the series getting underway with the opening match on Thursday 29 May at Edgbaston. ODI squad: Harry Brook (Yorkshire) – Captain Tom Banton (Somerset) Jacob Bethell (Warwickshire) Jos Buttler (Lancashire) Brydon Carse (Durham) Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire) Tom Hartley (Lancashire) Will Jacks (Surrey) Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire) Jamie Overton (Surrey) Matthew Potts (Durham) Adil Rashid (Yorkshire) Joe Root (Yorkshire) Jamie Smith (Surrey) Luke Wood (Lancashire) Metro Bank ODIs 1st ODI: England v West Indies, Thursday 29 May 2025, Edgbaston, Birmingham 2nd ODI: England v West Indies, Sunday 1 June 2025, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff 3rd ODI: England v West Indies, Tuesday 3 June 2025, Kia Oval, London 'What they've done is they've said the chairmen of selectors in the territories – so in Barbados or in Trinidad – now becomes a talent scout as well. But there's no selection process for them. The selector in Barbados, he's a man in a full-time job. When does Sammy watch regional cricket? Desmond Haynes and myself, that's all we did, watch cricket, all over the place. I was a youth selector as well so I'd be at the regional tournaments, under‑15, under-17, under-19, and I got to see all the young talent coming through. The talent scouts can't do that. And they didn't just get rid of the senior men's selectors. The youth selectors as well, they changed that.' Advertisement In Butcher's year as a selector, the West Indies men's side won 51% of their games, the only time this century they have won the majority of their matches across all formats in a calendar year. 'When I left, I said to Desmond: 'We were a success.' There's no other West Indian selector that has left and can say they were a success, they were always let go because the team failed,' he says. 'We were a success. So that will always stay with me. The powers that be, they wanted to move to a different situation. But we were a success and we were on the right path. There's no question about that. They can't take that away.' West Indies have been affected by the proliferation of lucrative franchise leagues and their habit of distracting – or just taking – international players. 'But I think England have started to experience what West Indies have experienced for the last 10 years,' Butcher says. 'I don't think many countries looked at what was happening with West Indies and ever thought: 'You know what, this'll happen to us too.' For the last 10 years, West Indies teams have been weakened by domestic leagues and everybody was sitting back saying: 'Oh, West Indies, they're mercenaries.' They didn't think it would come home to roost.' After a winter in Barbados, Butcher is settling back in to life in England before a summer of commentary and promoting his new book, Breaking Barriers. It certainly doesn't want for interesting stories: being brought up in poverty by his grandmother on Barbados's east coast, being uprooted to join his parents in Stevenage, hoovering up trophies in a wonderful Middlesex side, becoming England's first black player before having his international ambitions crushed by a serious eye injury, and going into and swiftly giving up on cricket coaching. 'I found the English system too rigid. It was all from a book. I didn't feel confident enough that I would be allowed to do what I thought should happen.' He turned instead to football, met a then-unknown Brendan Rodgers while studying for his Uefa B licence and was recruited by him to join Reading's academy, before being left behind when Rodgers was headhunted by Chelsea and from there launched on a stellar coaching career. Advertisement 'If he hadn't gone I think I would have stuck it longer,' Butcher says. 'What pushed me out eventually was the fact that I knew John Barnes very well and he was having it really tough. He couldn't get interviews, couldn't get shortlisted, couldn't get nothing. So after Brendan left, it dawned on me if guys of that level are struggling to make it professionally, it's gonna be tough for me.' Now 71, Butcher has no intention of drifting away from cricket. He is very active as the president of Barbados Royals girls cricket club, the region's first all-female club, and a patron of the Ace Programme, the British charity trying to drive engagement in the sport among underrepresented communities. 'While I'm still capable physically and mentally to do something, I think I've got a lot to offer. I'm a cricket man and cricket has been my life.'
Business Upturn
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Upturn
The Boys Season 5: Release date speculation, cast and plot details – Everything we know so far
By Aman Shukla Published on May 19, 2025, 19:00 IST Last updated May 19, 2025, 13:31 IST The Boys has cemented its place as one of Prime Video's most gripping and audacious superhero series, blending dark humor, sharp satire, and intense action. With Season 4 leaving fans on a jaw-dropping cliffhanger, anticipation for The Boys Season 5 is at an all-time high. As the final chapter of the main series, Season 5 promises to deliver an explosive conclusion. Here's everything we know so far about The Boys Season 5 . The Boys Season 5 Release Date Speculation While Prime Video has not announced an official release date for The Boys Season 5 , speculation points to a premiere in 2026. This timeline aligns with the show's production schedule and historical release patterns. The Boys Season 5 Expected Cast The cast of The Boys Season 5 will feature a mix of familiar faces and exciting newcomers, with some surprising returns and a notable Supernatural reunion. While the full cast list is still under wraps, here's what we know based on Season 4's finale and recent announcements: Karl Urban as Billy Butcher : The relentless leader of The Boys, Butcher's arc will likely center on his deteriorating health and vendetta against Homelander. Jack Quaid as Hughie Campbell : Hughie's emotional journey continues after the traumatic events of Season 4. Antony Starr as Homelander : The unhinged supe remains the central antagonist, with his grip on power tightening. Erin Moriarty as Starlight (Annie January) : Starlight's alliance with Butcher will be crucial as they evade capture. Jessie T. Usher as A-Train : After switching sides, A-Train's fate hangs in the balance. Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk : Captured at the end of Season 4, MM's role in the resistance will be pivotal. Chace Crawford as The Deep : The Seven's dim-witted member continues his loyalty to Homelander. Tomer Capone as Frenchie and Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko : Both are captured, setting up a high-stakes rescue mission. Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy : Confirmed as a series regular, Soldier Boy's return will explore his conflict with Butcher and his father-son dynamic with Homelander. Susan Heyward as Sister Sage and Cameron Crovetti as Ryan : Both are expected to return, with Sage's scheming and Ryan's growing powers playing key roles. Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Joe Kessler: Despite his death in Season 4, Kessler's return (possibly as a hallucination) is confirmed. The Boys Season 5 Potential Plot Exact plot details for The Boys Season 5 are being kept under wraps, but the Season 4 finale and Kripke's comments provide strong clues about the final season's direction. Described as the show's 'version of the apocalypse,' Season 5 will be a high-stakes, action-packed conclusion. Aman Shukla is a post-graduate in mass communication . A media enthusiast who has a strong hold on communication ,content writing and copy writing. Aman is currently working as journalist at
New Statesman
17-05-2025
- Politics
- New Statesman
Reform UK's taproom revolutionaries
Photo by Oli Scarff/AFP From a corner table inside The Talbot, Mark Butcher is plotting political domination. 'Reform aren't happy with just going after the parliamentary seats, the council seats,' he says. 'I think the important thing is we are going after the grassroots. We're going after the social clubs, the pubs, the Conservative clubs, and the Labour pubs as well. That's where the grassroots voters are.' Butcher is wearing a matching pair of checked trousers and waistcoat with his sunglasses pushed up onto his head. Chairman of the Blackpool and Fleetwood branch of Reform UK, he is in an ebullient mood. His party are leading the national polls, tipping 30 per cent, and he senses blood in the water. For his day job, Butcher runs a local soup kitchen, but he plans to stand in the next general election in one of the city's two constituencies. He believes he will win either by a large margin: his Labour opponent will be 'annihilated'; the local Conservative party has already 'given up'. We are meeting at Britain's first Reform-branded pub, where we sit with its two owners, Nick Lowe and Peter Flynn, and several pints of Stella Artois. Outside, much of the façade has been repainted a bright turquoise. Reform election material is pasted over the bar. Only an engraved slab of brickwork above the front door reveals the venue's former name: The Talbot Conservative Club. Across the country, voters are pulling behind Nigel Farage. At last month's council elections his party took control of ten local authorities and two mayoralties, and won a Westminster by-election to boot. We cannot rule out the possibility, Professor John Curtice wrote afterwards, this could prove to be the end of a century of Conservative and Labour dominance. Reform's critics have long contended, however, that while the party has achieved a breadth of support it has little depth. Until February, it was owned by Farage as a private limited company. It has no tradition of mass mobilisation and owes its support largely to its leader's appearances on television, they argue. The renovation of establishments like The Talbot seems to suggest something different. Throughout the 20th century, parliamentary democracy rested on a foundation of mass participation. Working men and women joined unions and fought to shape the Labour party. Conservative clubs embedded their party in local communities via cheap alcohol and popular entertainment nights. But as traditional production lines shut down, the forward march of labour halted and society atomised, these institutions decayed. Now, Reform is reviving them. And, with union leaders drawing up a strategy to combat Reform's appeal among their members, it appears that both Farage is the only British political figure capable of winning support in both the working men's club and the Tory taproom. Lowe and Flynn were both members of the communally owned Talbot Conservative Club, founded in 1927, when they decided to buy it in 2009. 'The no smoking ban come in and that was the nail in the head,' says Lowe. 'It was literally going bankrupt. We proposed that we take over the club. 'We'll pay its debts off. We'll do it up.'' After 16 years of running the site as a regular pub, financial motivations also played a part in its Reform rebrand. With electricity costs spiking, Lowe hopes tying his business to the country's most popular political party will bring punters through the door. As we speak, the plan appears to be bearing fruit. Flynn pops out to talk to two men before paraphrasing their excited reaction: 'We've seen it on Facebook. We've come for a pint. Well done, well done!' While a few customers have said they will no longer use the pub, ten or 20 more have expressed support, Lowe claims. The few punters drinking on a sunny Tuesday afternoon have no issue with their local's political turn. Tony, 72, a former painter and decorator, says he voted Labour all his life because he was a working man. Now he backs Reform. 'They lie less,' he says. 'Starmer was elected on lies. Most people have had enough of the lies – he hasn't smashed the [people smuggling] gangs.' The only thing Starmer smashes is cocaine, adds his friend Dave, 57, who works in child safeguarding and believes claims he has seen online that the prime minister snorted drugs en route to Ukraine with Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz (the cocaine in question was a tissue on their train table). Smoking in the pub garden in the sun, Michele, 57, and Amanda, 47, say they have barely seen Nigel Farage on television. Local support for Reform is an organic phenomenon, they insist. 'Everything's dying in Blackpool,' says Amanda. 'There's no tourist season anymore.' Neither of them have voted for years, but they say they will turn out for Reform – alongside Amanda's 23-year-old daughter, who discovered the party on TikTok and thinks they're more honest than other politicians. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe The Talbot's renewed politicisation began four years ago when then Conservative MP Scott Benson helped to organise a community meeting on anti-social behaviour that filled the 150-seat function room upstairs. 'People were saying what they felt and what was going on and what hadn't been done,' Lowe says. 'These people have lived here their whole life and they feel intimidated.' This isn't local paranoia. As tourism and local industries have declined, living standards in Blackpool have tumbled. On one notorious central street, says Flynn, 'even the dogs walk round in pairs'. His friends who run shops around the North Pier see marauding gangs of children steal brazenly. On almost every measure, Blackpool has become one of Britain's most deprived areas. In Flynn and Lowe's telling, support for Reform has grown naturally from local anger at the failure of the Conservative government and Labour council to deal with the city's decline. Both men defected from the Tory party within the last year without telling the other. 'We've got a lot of other people's problems,' says Butcher. 'Families who get forced out of certain towns for antisocial behaviour end up here. We're the dumping ground.' He offers a defence of legal migration as vital to Blackpool's economy – without it there would not be enough workers for the holiday season – but claims locals are angry at an influx of new arrivals and spiking crime rates in the last few years. In a city built on holidaymakers, the requisitioning of The Metropole, a prominent seafront hotel, to house asylum seekers has become a totemic issue. Over recent months, The Talbot has been hosting Reform meetings and will now function as the party's base for the South Blackpool constituency. Butcher thinks he is likely to secure a second pub to match it in Blackpool North and Fleetwood. He hopes they will help his party recreate the Tories' old ties to the community. At The Talbot Conservative Club, Flynn remembers, you would always see activists and councillors in their shirts and ties on a Sunday afternoon. Butcher, whose father was a member, has fond memories of its meat raffles. 'Every Christmas, we'd have parties upstairs,' he says. 'The Tories were very connected with their people… they did it very well, the social side of it.' Twenty minutes' walk from The Talbot stands The Imperial Hotel, a great Victorian edifice of red brick that would once play host to every major political figure in Britain during party conference season. I walk around its bar with Tony Williams as he points at photos of Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan and Tony Blair visiting the city. Once the bassist in Stealers Wheel and Jethro Tull, Williams, now in his late seventies, was driven to enter local politics when he moved back to Blackpool and saw how poorly his area was being run. For eight years, until he resigned acrimoniously in 2023, he led the Conservative group on Blackpool council and, in his own telling, helped to manage the area's slow decline. Now, he is a member of Reform and believes they will win both of the city's seats at the next election. 'In the late Sixties there was a culture in Blackpool of people who were proud to be Conservatives,' Williams says, 'who were proud to donate, who were proud to fundraise and be part of a Conservative community. That just eroded.' When I ask him about the city's remaining Conservative clubs, he can't remember all their names. 'The two main parties are so alike,' he adds. 'I've seen from the members of Reform now there's a very strong will to get things done. There is a definite will within the party to sort this mess out.' Willpower is not the only thing that's lacking among Reform's reeling opponents. A few streets away at the Claremont Conservative Club the mood is sleepy in the mid-afternoon heat. Pulling pints behind the bar, Henry, 24, says he has never voted and has no real desire to start. Smoking a cigarette next to the bowling green that dominates the club's garden, Eddie, 66, one of only two customers and a lifelong Conservative voter, tells me he likes what Reform are doing. 'The trust in the two main parties is gone,' he says. According to Peter Sykes, the chairman of the club committee, while the Claremont is still affiliated to the Conservative party, the vast majority of members are not. 'When I joined you had to meet the chair, have an interview and swear allegiance to the party,' he remembers. 'Ladies were not allowed in the games room.' He worries that being connected to the Tories now turns potential customers away, but the Association of Conservative Clubs helps the place keep its head above water financially. No national party representative has visited since 2007, when the Conservatives last held their autumn conference in Blackpool. And while Sykes is still a supporter of the Tories, he has heard his members 'gushing' about Farage's plans to slash immigration. 'I'm afraid the depth of support for the Conservative party in Blackpool is withering away,' he adds glumly. Around the town centre, even if they've not yet arrived at Reform, nobody is willing to defend mainstream politics. Denise, 70, says she loves Blackpool but has seen it changed by migration since she first visited as a child. A lifelong Labour voter, she believes Starmer is 'putting open borders before his own people'. At the last election she voted Reform. Former hospital porter Bob, also 70, will not stop railing against the elite when I ask him how he will vote. As he mentions former prime ministers, a passing man overhears and shouts: 'Tony Blair's a c**t.' At The Talbot, Butcher sketches out a grandiose vision of how Reform can win political power – and rescue Britain from atomisation. The party will found Sunday league football teams for children and adults, he says; it will run cricket and rugby clubs. His network of 200 active volunteers are already establishing a ground game to take on the Labour machine. If regular people were to start joining explicitly political sports clubs and pubs, it would represent a reversal of every hyper-individualising trend of the 21st century so far. But Butcher believes that latent patriotism, a desire to save the country, will drive locals into Reform's arms. 'We're all fed up – and it's not just fed up. It's gone beyond being frustrated. People are being forced into action,' he says. 'Normal, everyday people are becoming activists.' Darker currents are also brewing in Blackpool. David Shaw, a newly elected Reform county councillor in Lancashire, tells me a local anti-migrant 'vigilante group' recently tried to rent a room at his Fleetwood pub for a meeting. For now, they are said to only be planning to observe and photograph immigrants. What will come later is unclear. Shaw says he refused to accept their booking and told them he wanted no part of such action. Public rage at the establishment will see Britain transformed by the next election, Butcher insists. He foresees a Nigel Farage-led government with the Liberal Democrats as the official opposition. 'If we protest, we'll be arrested. We can't say anything online, we'll get arrested,' he says. 'So what are we supposed to do? Let's sign up to Reform. This is the only driving force that is available.' [See also: Farage rising] Related
