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That’ll be a first

FAFO

You mean it was all statutory & mandatory services & not offices full of people working on unicorn engagement & dolphin rescues? *shocked*

But, but you said there were….🙄

Again, Reform UK all mouth but not having a clue what they are talking about. And yet people are stupid enough to vote for them.

“Everyone” thought that yeah :D

Maybe others will start to realise how vacuous their promises are and how expensive they will be for residents.

Naaah. Most Reform voters can see no further than a flag being waved under their noses. But will not pay heating bills or fill supermarket shopping trolleys after the Reform clowns have helped break the country.

That Brexit dividend (?) got spread thin ...

Reform "policies" won't stand up to the meeting with realities......

But but but , what about all that terrible waste you kept blathering on about? Couldn't you find it? Perhaps there was no waste after all. It was all puffed up lies and guesswork during Reform's campaign wasn't it? Go on. Admit it.

💯 yes. I reckon most of our modern-day problems can be traced back to 5 May 1979.

Well colour me shocked...

Reality can be such a bitch

They could have saved themselves a lot of time by simply speaking to literally anyone that works for a Local Authority.

But what about all the swathes of diversity officers? That must have saved millions… right?

Yep. bsky.app/profile/real...

Imagine this dog-shit of a council on a national scale. Reform voters have no imagination, they need to experience it to appreciate it. The message will not get through until they suffer.

Hoping to find lots of transsexual equality officers

Don't like saying it but just like Brexit: we told you so.

Typical Reform blowhards - utter failures.

Shocked to the core at this news!

Ha!

Almost like Reform have absolutely no idea what they are doing and base their entire political agenda on demonising immigrants? Who’d have guessed?

Surprise surprise they didn’t do their homework before they promised ‘big’ savings!

ow what a surprise. con artists

Surprise, surprise

In short: "We lied"

Who'd have thought. Councils have been cutting costs for years. The ability to cut further is so limited.

Oh dear ' what another fine mess," Farage

Amazing they had time to discover this given they couldn't be bothered to turn up to many meetings

Well, ducking fuh.

The really galling part of this is that Reform voters will read these headlines, along with the Nathan Gill and other scandals. Most will shrug and continue voting for Reform. For them it was never about the economy, council tax or national pride, it is purely about the racism.

Same vibe in Durham.

In today's 'No shit, Sherlock' news ...

My friend was a Tory Councillor upt North around 15 years ago. Politics often comes up when I meet him. He’s a proper right winger, but without prompting he once said “I can’t see how any councils are reducing costs, I thought we were bare boning it 15 years ago, and it’s been cuts every year since”

From DOGE to DOPE

FAFO. But then the same could be said for the voters who put them in.

‘Everyone’

Reform realising that empty promises are impossible to deliver. Best stick to the 'boat people' message. 'We have to raise you council tax b/c boat people' 'We have to cut refuse collections b/c boat people' Repeat, repeat, repeat. The dumd f@cks that voted for you love that sh!t

It’s what their voters would want …. 😜

👀

We don't have street lights on after midnight in Lincolnshire because the council said we can't afford them and they'd have to cut other things to keep them on, but Reform thinks they can save money here too.

"Everyone"?

Wait what? I thought there were 100’s of DEI officers to get rid of?

Didn’t do their sums.

you mean when most your budget is social care, you don´t have much fiscal room?

ReformyUk are extraordinarily stupid muppets aren’t they? All they have to show for their election successes are empty promises, a sharp rise in racism, & Counties across the land despoiled by dirty, cheap, tatty flags. I hope they manage to close the door behind themselves when they feck off.

Reality? Fuck yeah.

It’s almost as if they did no research into the council they stood for & got all their information from social media echo chambers 🧐

🎻 for the Gammons of Kent.

Captured by the officer party I see.

Perhaps if they stopped paying the councillors that would make a saving. It's not like the reform cllrs have started in the volunteer parish/town roles, no straight to main council and payments!

It might be easier to have a 'Reform Fucks Up Again' template, to which the specifics can be quickly added.

Wait, you mean they didn't know what the fuck they were on about?

😱😱😱😱😱

Naive and incompetent. Shouted about how much waste there was with no clue. Why would anyone vote for these fools unless they’re fools themselves.

They’ve done a shit job and they’re raising costs. Serves those idiots in Kent right for being so damn stupid and voting for a bunch of incompetent fascists.

They (Tories) are on that horse already. During a news report of their conference I raised a figurative eyebrow at Mel Stride planning to fund a pump of money into the housing market by 'cutting costs'. 14 years not long enough then mate?

Perhaps examples like this could be put to politicians - especially Reform ones - in interviews *before* each election where they promise spending or tax cuts funded by these efficiency savings.

They really believed their own bullshit.

Whodathunkit?

Have they tried cutting 'woke nonsense'? 🤔

Lab - Con - Deform are all the same evil. BILLIONAIRE BACKED and not to be trusted. If your not part of the 1% or even the 10%, wake up and educate yourselves if you want things to change for the better. #Backzack

Established parties taking control of a council always have someone with experience of local government to advise. Reform are just a bunch of ignorant armchair warriors most of whom had absolutely no idea of what councils do so when they got in everything about local government was a big surprise.

It's almost like the country's been sucked dry by the super wealthy, leaving public services stripped to the bone. Those people who Nigel sucks up to, and whose interests he serves.

I suggested a new logo for them.

What about the billions of pounds all local councils spend on Net Zero each year?

Let’s not get carried away.

When halfwits meet reality, did anyone think it would end any differently?

Really! 🤣

This is what happens when you swallow your own party's propaganda.

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

And meanwhile streets and footpaths are overgrown and untended, road repairs are laughably completed, nearly every other road is shut for road works as these idiots just authorised all repairs to happen at the same time. All this before the council tax goes up. Unfit for public office .

What a surprise. Bullshit and guesswork meets reality. A Farage government would be exactly the same.

Very narrow idea of ‘everyone’!

Well there's a surprise for you! Not so easy to govern is it? Words come far easier.

Ctrl+F “D.E.I”… nothing Ctrl+F “Woke”…. Nothing Oh, anyone got any other ideas? Nope. Well we will have to raise taxes then.

Perhaps most telling.. "During the election they said vote for us to fix asylum and now they’ve discovered . . . that the county has no role in asylum and won’t be able to cut council tax,....They came into power thinking they would find lots of waste to cut, and they haven’t identified any.”

That's this morning's No Shit Sherlock moment sorted, then

Must be the fault of them Illeguls. Obviously

It's so much easier to complain and make false assertions than to deal constructively with life as it is.

SURPRISE!

Sure thing babe.

Almost the exact same words that were spoken by one of the DOGE (pronounced 'dodgy') kids in the US. Funny how their own propaganda turns out to be false!

You think…. 🤦‍♀️

This is why it is important to educate us, the electorate, that running things is complex. Simplistic solutions are not solutions.

Life is complicated shocker.

Painful when reality bites, isn't it? There'll be more of this with these Deformers over time.

Does that mean they’re going to have to revisit their whole political philosophy now or… nah, thought not.

"Just cut spending" is the mirror image of "just tax the rich": a) it's not that simple b) inevitably you end up doing spending more / collecting less c) people insist on seeing failure of successive govts to do it as "didn't want it hard enough" not "more complex than that" d) and persist saying it

Tice promised to tell us all about the massive waste in spending that would find,maybe we can't hear him from Dubai .

“Nobody knew health care could be so complicated”, 2025 edition

Sorry but I have no sympathy for Kent. If you vote idiots into power don’t expect common sense or good policies.

Yes, just as soon as they can find someone to direct it at.

It's as if Deform UK is nothing more than a clueless mob of misfits, chancers and ideologues who have no idea about how local, regional or national government actually works in the real world. bsky.app/profile/jame...

Imagine our surprise...

No. Everyone didn't. Just Reform Company bigots and the Numpties they convinced to vote for them.

(Revenge of the technocrats)

To every question there is a simple answer that is wrong. Reform are Learning this the hard way.

Any chance these idiots might go "hey, Reform was completely wrong about this, what else is it wrong about?" Probably not.

Who knew government in a modern, technologically advanced, complex society could be expensive?

there's a quote like this from one of the doge guys

"Everyone" lol ... They confuse their backroom concoction of commonsense with actual common sense.

Who knew? All that waste on junkets & EDI hires & there’s nothing to be saved in Kent’s budget? Maybe there wasn’t any waste of any magnitude & they’ve been lying to us? Surely not

Could it be that a whole generation of heartless cost- and tax-cutting has left nothing left to cut?

Reform plugged in to the fallacy that your council tax just pays for bins. Its the facebook/reach media comments narrative of "they waste the money".

All that waste hey @ziayusuf.... anyone would think you might have looked at Doge in Trump land before promoting such tosh

Reality hits the repuke party

Well we all saw that one coming. Clowns