A TORY council leader has left voters wondering if he still has his feet on the ground after insisting that alien life exists in a boggling 1,200-plus-word ramble.
In a lengthy Twitter thread, Derbyshire County Council leader Barry Lewis argued “there must be other life out there.”
He said governments might have “captured crashed craft and are reverse-engineering them with their defence contractor partners.”
ALEX HALL is amused at the way the UFOs appear exactly where commercial interests, conspiracies, militarism and right-wing media overlap
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Austerity in a red tie is still austerity, warns RAMONA McCARTNEY of the People’s Assembly – rally with us to demand different choices
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT


