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New rules for Reform-run libraries after Pride row

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IwantToRetire · 17/10/2026 22:36

A Reform-led council has outlined proposals to govern displays in its libraries four months after the administration came under fire for banning LGBTQ+ Pride displays.

The new draft guidance, to be considered by a Staffordshire County Council scrutiny committee on Thursday, reveals which events will be marked with library displays, including local history, St George's Day, Remembrance Day and Armed Forces Day, as well as promotion for fostering and recycling in the county.

However, there is no place on the draft schedule for the year ahead for Pride, Black History Month or non-Christian cultural events.

The council said it wanted libraries to be politically neutral spaces open to everyone.

Councillors are due to vote on the draft guidance in November.

Article continues at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmz98k2q18pko

(Dont think this is the same Council as the one there was an ealier thread about.)

A woman with long brown hair is wearing a cardigan and holding a book. She is looking at a book shelf in a library.

Reform-led Staffordshire Council issues new rules for libraries

A decision to ban Pride displays in June across Staffordshire's libraries sparked controversy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmz98k2q18pko

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FouDeFafa · 19/10/2026 10:10

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 18/10/2026 10:39

I'm in the UK, so: nope. Libraries were just public buildings with a bit of donated stock, gradually improved by governments before Labour took power in the 60s. Until then, they had no central funding to buy stock.

The 1964 Public Libraries Act created the network of educational centres we know today, which has survived austerity to provide free education, equality of Internet access, local history resources and places of sanctuary for people without any money at all. It exists because of popular movements, not philanthropy.

Its existence is a defiant kick against government by the rich, which resists the education of women and minorities.

Libraries have been places the poor and marginalised seek sanctuary in. They exist to support and stick up for them - especially marginalised children. Reform dislike that.

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What a load of nonsense

Thinkpink21 · 19/10/2026 10:14

Sounds sensible to me.

ViciousCurrentBun · 19/10/2026 10:18

Florence Nightingale did great work for British nursing and was the first person to present statistical data visually and is credited with the invention of the pie chart. That is what she is all about, Whether she fancied men, women or both is just of no consequence.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 19/10/2026 11:54

ViciousCurrentBun · 19/10/2026 10:18

Absolutely this and nothing else.

OhTheCowsInTheMeadowGoMoo · 19/10/2026 12:33

Talkinpeace · 18/10/2026 17:04

The UK has twice as many South Asians - due to the Empire and Commonwealth - as it does Blacks (African and West Indian)

Black History Month is an American import that should be dropped from the UK calendar.
American kids do not learn about living under the Blitz, I fail to see why UK kids need to learn about Rosa Parks when the UK race situation was utterly different.

Libraries should be places to work and read and where children and their carers can get books to look at.

All of the themed events are virtue signalling and money wasting.

So just because America apparently doesn't learn about the Blitz, we shouldn't learn American history just because it's not our country?.
That's a very small minded outlook towards education.
"Only learn things if it relates to me and my surroundings.".
I agree wholeheartedly with whoever upthread said they enjoy looking into other worlds, surely that's the whole point of education. To broaden your mind, to learn new things.

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