Reform UK | Group Leader, Basildon Borough Council

Essex, United Kingdom.
Joined February 2025
This is horrendous.
An illegal migrant held an 83-year-old woman at gunpoint. She was having lunch at home with her husband in a quiet Lanarkshire village when they were alerted to a break-in. In their bedroom, they found Chirag Solanki with a firearm, a five-inch knife, cable ties, duct tape and a balaclava. Solanki ‘held a firearm against her temple with his right hand and a knife to her throat with his left hand’. He was in our country illegally. Yet he was left to roam free and terrorise British citizens. Every crime committed by such people is the result of Tory and Labour failure to uphold immigration law. Reform will end this madness. We will take our country back.
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🚨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.
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🚨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?
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🚨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.
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🚨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.
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🚨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.
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🚨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.
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Cllr Sam Journet retweeted
🚨Another Independent defects to Reform! A warm welcome to Cllr Valerie Robbins, who won reelection as an Independent in 2024 by a country mile! 👏 With the elections this year and this defection, it’s clear that Basildon wants Reform. Ready to jump seat again, @RicHolden?
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🚨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.
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🚨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.
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🚨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
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When I was in the @UKLabour you didn’t need an undercover reporter to uncover #racism - it stared me in the face daily! Labour’s own leadership commissioned the #FordeReport - a damning indictment of the party. Recommendations followed. Stakeholders met. Yet, from what I witnessed, those discussions delivered no meaningful change. Having experienced racism in Labour firsthand, I find its attacks on @reformparty_uk deeply hypocritical. Labour should address its own failures before claiming the moral high ground. facebook.com/share/p/1Asr9Xo…
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🚨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
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🚨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.
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🚨BREAKING: Eritrea REFUSES to accept deportations of illegal migrants who broke into the United Kingdom. A Reform UK Government will BAN visas and entry for Eritrean nationals and other uncooperative countries, after the Eritrean government refused to cooperate with the return of people who have no legal right to remain here. What do you think of our policy?
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🚨SHOCKING: 17 minibuses a DAY are escorting illegal migrants from Wethersfield asylum centre into Essex. Reform UK has introduced Operation Vanguard, with licensed security operatives patrolling designated areas following concerns about vile behaviour towards women and girls, and the public’s safety. Why should Councils be left managing the consequences of shocking border policy made in Whitehall?
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🚨UPDATE: £1 MILLION and a YEAR of undercover work, to find FIVE bad eggs. That tells you everything. ITV used fake passports and false employee information to get inside Reform UK HQ. After all that money, all that time and all that effort? Five people. Google “disgraced Labour councillors” or “disgraced Conservative councillors” and you’ll be scrolling for days. This wasn’t the knockout blow they hoped for. It exposed just how desperate parts of the establishment have become to damage Reform UK.
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🚨SHOCKING: I am utterly disgusted. Using the heartbreak of baby loss to score political points is beneath the standards people should expect from any Councillor. I did not want to give Cllr Gavin Callaghan’s post more attention, but residents have raised it with me because they were genuinely disgusted by the way something so deeply personal was turned into another attack on Reform UK and Nigel Farage. Baby Loss Awareness Week belongs to the families remembering children they never got to see grow up.
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🚨Operation Vanguard has responded to 172 incidents in the FIRST month of operation. Reform UK will continue to protect the residents of Essex.
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