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Jonathon Seed says he plans to continue in local politics and to write an account of his experiences after charges against him for election fraud…
Independent councillor Emma Faramarzi, formerly a Conservative, has resigned from the council The only councillor on Swindon Borough Council who is neither a Conservative nor Labour member has resigned. Emma Faramarzi was elected in 2018 as Conservative candidate for Priory Vale and had previously served in the group’s cabinet during her 10 years as a councillor – but she left last year. She has been sitting as an Independent Tory with her partner, former Conservative councillor Oliver Donachie. After Mr Donachie lost his Haydon Wick seat to a Conservative challenger in Thursday...
Jonathon Seed - the Conservative candidate for PCC has withdrawn because of a 30-year-old motoring conviction The Conservative party in Wiltshire, and Jonathon Seed should come clean about when they knew Coun Seed would not be able to take up the post of Police and Crime Commissioner because of a past conviction says Labour candidate Junab Ali. The Swindon councillor has reacted to the news than Coun Seed the favourite to win the election has withdrawn the day before the count because he is disbarred by an old driving conviction. If Coun Seed wins the election, another election will...
JONATHON Seed has released the full letter he sent Wiltshire Council’s chief election official confirming he was pulling out of the police and crime commissioner race. In the letter, which is dated May 9, 2021, Coun Seed says he was fined and banned from the roads for 18 months in 1993 after being convicted of drink driving. However, as he had not been sentenced to prison “nor under the sentencing authorities could I have been” did not believe the conviction to have been for an imprisonable offence that would have automatically disqualified him from becoming police and crime commi...
THE CURRENT police and crime commissioner and candidates for the role have registered their shock at Jonathon Seed's withdrawal from the race. The Conservative frontrunner announced he was pulling out of the election after it emerged party bosses had "disbarred" him from taking up the role if he were elected tomorrow. Coun Seed was said to have a driving conviction which by law disqualified him from holding the office of police and crime commissioner. Reacting to the news, Conservative Angus Macpherson, the current Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire, said: “The PCC...