Council meeting suspended after disruptive controversial councillor refuses to leave

A town council meeting had to be suspended after a controversial town councillor who has been embroiled in a string of rows refused to leave the building.

Coun Mick Glynn was accused of causing “continuous disruption” to a meeting of Hatfield Town Council earlier this week and was repeatedly warned by Mayor Isaiah-John Reasbeck over his conduct.

Eventually, the meeting had to be called off when Coun Glynn refused to leave the council’s offices in Cuckoo Lane.

In a statement issued after the meeting, Mayor Reasbeck said: “Unfortunately the meeting had to be suspended after half an hour due to the behaviour of Coun Michael Glynn.

“Coun Glynn caused continuous disruptions to the meeting, he was given multiple opportunities to moderate his behaviour and given further warnings by myself as Chair.

“Under Standing Order 2b, a vote was then taken to exclude Coun Glynn from the meeting, this vote passed by a vote of 7-3; Councillor Glynn refused to leave the building, I then suspended the meeting to a later date.

“The council chamber is a place for polite, civil discussion and debate, not for speaking over people or for intimidation, name calling and disruption.

“My job as chair is to uphold the standards of debate, to keep it constructive, relevant and respectful, I will continue to do this for my term in office.

“The meeting will reconvene at 7pm on November 16 without the attendance of Coun Glynn.”

It is the latest in a long line of controveries involving the outspoken and controversial councillor.

Last month, he was sanctioned atfer making ‘defamatory’ claims that a fellow councillor would turn up to meetings ‘drunk’.

Glynn and fellow councillor Carl Miller were found by investigators to have breached the members’ code of conduct, when they made the unsubstantiated allegations about Coun Linda Curran.

In an earlier meeting he had spoken about hitting her with the gavel used by Hatfield Town Council’s Mayor – a position he held at the time.

He has repeatedly been told to undertake training - but last month’s hearing was told has not complied with sanctions issued against him for three previous conduct hearings.

Reform UK councillor Reasbeck and Coun Glynn have clashed previously and he took over as Mayor from interim mayor James Hart following Glynn’s resignation from the role.

Glynn called him a “charlatan” and a “vote for Liebour” in a social media attack.

Coun Glynn resigned as Mayor of Hatfield in November 2025, ending a tumultuous few months for the council, when it struggled to retain administrative staff needed to keep the authority functioning.

In June 2025, when the Town Council had a full workforce, staff told the LDRS that colleagues were looking to leave. By August, two of the council’s three administrative employees had left.

In another incident, a member of staff called the police after Coun Glynn and then deputy mayor Coun Mark Broadhurst “forced” their way into a woman’s office, demanding information they could not have.

He also called a member of the public an “a***wipe” in an online attack.

In March 2025, he was reprimanded by the City of Doncaster Council’s audit hearings sub-committee after he failed to treat the former council clerk, Clare McRoy, “with respect”.

Glynn attended a local community meeting, identifying himself as a local councillor, and proceeded to “shame and humiliate” Ms McRoy in her absence.

Cllr Glynn blamed slow progress on a community project on the town clerk before calling her “useless”, “ineffective” and “not very good” at her job.

Additionally, the sub-committee heard that at a Hatfield Town Council meeting on October 14, 2024, Glynn described a “fractious” debate with his female colleagues as being like “loose women”.

The chair of the meeting, councillor Deborah Smith, informed Cllr Glynn his comment was “misogynistic”.