{"id":497684,"date":"2026-03-27T05:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497684\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T05:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:02:11","slug":"reform-uk-councillor-in-staffordshire-accused-over-racist-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497684\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform UK councillor in Staffordshire accused over racist posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The allegation by Hope not Hate is that Dean posted racist material on an X account that used the name L Dean as a handle. The group said biographical and other detail shared in some of the posts lined up with her personal background. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The group has additionally accused her of using social media to call for mosques to be closed and state she was getting tired of Muslims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hope Not Hate also accused Dean of posting the message: &#8220;Indigenous Britain is slipping further into the abyss. We will soon reach the point of no return.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the material flagged by the campaigners predates Dean&#8217;s 2025 election to the county council, for which she serves May Bank and Wolstanton ward, and some comes after her election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also represents Knutton ward on Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The allegation by Hope not Hate is that Dean posted racist material on an X account that used&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-497684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}