When counsellors step down costing the council £35000, the party should pay this

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Create a law stating that the owning party or counsellor should pay the cost of any re-elections when any counsellor that resigns straight after being elected or is found to have committed hate/sex crimes online and is sacked because the party didn't vet them.

A certain "party" ltd (private company) has in the last few council elections stood people in council areas who either never wanted the job and then stood down, or were sacked for hate crimes costing the council in the region of £25-35k for each counsellor for another election.

The party or the candidate should be forced to pay this, not the tax payers.

I believe that they are doing this to bankrupt councils.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Require parties to reimburse by-election costs caused by voluntary resignations: Require parties to reimburse by-election costs caused by voluntary resignations

Timeline

17 May 2026	Petition opened for signatures
24 Jun 2026	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 24 Jun 2026

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