23rd May 2026:

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🏆 FOREST PARK PROVED SOMETHING IMPORTANT

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Honestly, the Forest Park result meant a lot to me. ​Not just because Owen Lake won and will now serve as the new Winkfield Parish Councillor for the Forest Park ward, although that was obviously a fantastic result and thoroughly deserved.

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It mattered because it proved something really important: that local people are starting to believe they do actually have a choice.

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For years, politics in Bracknell Forest has largely operated like a closed shop. Certain parties simply assumed certain seats belonged to them and most people were expected to quietly accept it.

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Forest Park showed that assumption is starting to break down and that only happened because ordinary people stepped forward and got involved.

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✅ People delivered leaflets after work
✅ People gave up evenings and weekends
✅ People knocked doors
✅ People had difficult conversations
✅ People backed us publicly when it would have been easier not to

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That really matters so, firstly, thank you.

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Secondly, congratulations to Owen, who worked incredibly hard throughout the campaign and has already shown exactly the kind of calm, practical and community-focused approach local politics desperately needs more of.

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⚠️ NOW COMES THE IMPORTANT PART
 

The truth is, May 2027 is coming very fast. Every council seat across Bracknell Forest will be up for election and for the first time in a very long time, there is a genuine sense that local politics here could fundamentally change.

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You can feel it on the doorstep now, the people are:

• frustrated,

• losing patience, and

• no longer buying the old political script.

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But none of this will happen by default. If we want to seriously challenge the establishment parties across the borough, then we need to start building properly now.

 

Currently, we have around 30 people willing to stand although, realistically, to properly fight every seat and build serious ward teams across Bracknell Forest, we need somewhere closer to 80–90 people putting their name forward as candidates.

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👥 WHAT WE NEED NOW
 

• ward organisers
• leaflet delivery volunteers
• door knockers
• social media support
• campaign leaders
• polling day teams
• future council candidates

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- before anyone thinks: “I’m not political enough for that…”, that's really good as, honestly, some of the best people coming forward are precisely the people who have never been involved in politics before.

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What matters to the people and the rest of the team is not whether somebody can talk like a politician, its whether they:

• care about their community.

• express 'common' sense, and

• are prepared to stand up and say: actually, this isn’t good enough anymore.”

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That is how movements grow, not through career politicians but 'normal', down-to-earth people deciding they’re no longer prepared to sit on the side-lines.​​

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🌿 CHAIRMAN’S GARDEN PARTY
 

I looking forward to the Chairman’s Garden Party coming up on Saturday 11th July

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Politics matters, but community matters too.

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Sometimes it is important simply to get good people together, talk properly and remember that what we are building here is bigger than elections alone.​

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FINAL THOUGHTS
 

Like Harmanswater before it, Forest Park was not the finish line but simply proof of concept.

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Proof that if enough decent people stop assuming somebody else will deal with things, local politics really can change but only if we keep building.

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Some of the best conversations we have had over the last year have started with somebody simply turning up for a coffee and a chat because they felt something in the country and/or locally, was no longer right.

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