John Reid

Mason Edward Goodchild, Clockwork Liveryman Jani Levanen, Plastic Man Gerard O’Sullivan & Barrister David Williams Stand In Farringdon Within City Council By-Election

On the same day as the national election in the UK on 4 July 2024, there is a local council by-election in the City of London’s Farringdon Within ward. Below we provide a rundown of the four candidates – Edward Goodchild, Jani Levanen, Gerard O’Sullivan and David Williams. All are standing as ‘independents’. There is […]

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Martha Grekos Resigned Her Castle Baynard Council Seat Due To ‘Brotherhood’ Bullying, All Those Standing To Replace Her Are Freemasons

There aren’t many places in the UK where all four candidates standing for a seat on a local authority council would be freemasons, but given that the City of London is the last rotten borough and is in urgent need of democratic reform, it is not really surprising that this is happening in the ‘square’ mile in 2023. So let’s take a look at the unsavoury line up vying for a handful of business votes to win a seat on the least democratic council in England on 23 March. They are Kevin Everett, Michael Hudson, Edward Goodchild and Scott Longman. Less that 0.4% of the English population are masons and yet more than two thirds of those who’ve held the top City of London council job of Lord Mayor since the founding of the Guildhall Lodge in 1905 have belonged to this tiny United Grand Lodge of England affiliate group.

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