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Broken promises, rising taxes: Inside Reform UK’s first year in power

Reform has run councils for a year. As local elections near, we ask: how has the party performed in power?

Broken promises, broken roads, and broken council leadership teams – that’s the outcome of Reform UK’s first year in power, an investigation by openDemocracy reveals.

[…] Reform raised taxes in every council where it holds or shares power. Potholes continue to cause accidents and damage, and councillors’ struggles over where to make promised savings have put much-loved local services at risk of closure.

Broken promises, rising taxes: Inside Reform UK’s first year in power, Sian Norris, Open Democracy

Kent DOLTS: First with the year old public KCC report…

This hot in from the Reform UK Kent DOLTS (Department Of Looking Terminally Stupid) team, presumably the first outcome of their clever, clever AI deep dive into the top secret numbers from their interrogation on Monday.

Except it’s no such thing. This is a direct read from a KCC report to KCC Audit Committee in May 2024 (so it’s over a year old, talking about older things) which Kent’s processes and audit found, reported, made public, discussed and sought to improve.

Kent DOLTS: First with the year old public KCC report…, Tim Prater, fhld.uk

#failedToDoHomework #Kent #LiberalDemocrats #OldNews #TimPrater

Kent DOLTS: First with the year old public KCC report…

This hot in from the Reform UK Kent DOLTS (Department Of Looking Terminally Stupid) team, presumably the first outcome of their clever, clever AI deep dive into the top secret numbers from their interrogation on Monday.

Except it’s no such thing. This is a direct read from a KCC report to KCC Audit Committee in May 2024 (so it’s over a year old, talking about older things) which Kent’s processes and audit found, reported, made public, discussed and sought to improve.

Kent DOLTS: First with the year old public KCC report…, Tim Prater, fhld.uk

#failedToDoHomework #Kent #LiberalDemocrats #OldNews #TimPrater

Kent DOLTS: First with the year old public KCC report…

This hot in from the Reform UK Kent DOLTS (Department Of Looking Terminally Stupid) team, presumably the first outcome of their clever, clever AI deep dive into the top secret numbers from their interrogation on Monday.

Except it’s no such thing. This is a direct read from a KCC report to KCC Audit Committee in May 2024 (so it’s over a year old, talking about older things) which Kent’s processes and audit found, reported, made public, discussed and sought to improve.

Kent DOLTS: First with the year old public KCC report…, Tim Prater, fhld.uk

#failedToDoHomework #Kent #LiberalDemocrats #OldNews #TimPrater

Kent DOLTS: First with the year old public KCC report…

This hot in from the Reform UK Kent DOLTS (Department Of Looking Terminally Stupid) team, presumably the first outcome of their clever, clever AI deep dive into the top secret numbers from their interrogation on Monday.

Except it’s no such thing. This is a direct read from a KCC report to KCC Audit Committee in May 2024 (so it’s over a year old, talking about older things) which Kent’s processes and audit found, reported, made public, discussed and sought to improve.

Kent DOLTS: First with the year old public KCC report…, Tim Prater, fhld.uk

#failedToDoHomework #Kent #LiberalDemocrats #OldNews #TimPrater

Kent DOLTS: First with the year old public KCC report…

This hot in from the Reform UK Kent DOLTS (Department Of Looking Terminally Stupid) team, presumably the first outcome of their clever, clever AI deep dive into the top secret numbers from their interrogation on Monday.

Except it’s no such thing. This is a direct read from a KCC report to KCC Audit Committee in May 2024 (so it’s over a year old, talking about older things) which Kent’s processes and audit found, reported, made public, discussed and sought to improve.

Kent DOLTS: First with the year old public KCC report…, Tim Prater, fhld.uk

#failedToDoHomework #Kent #LiberalDemocrats #OldNews #TimPrater

Reform councillors reported to police by colleague

Infighting in the Reform UK party in Devon has seen two county councillors and an election agent reported to police by a colleague over election expenses.

Neil Stevens and his brother Tony were elected for Reform in May and documents seen by the BBC allege Neil Stevens spent about £170 more than the campaign spending limit.

This was reported to police by Ed Hill, who was also elected for Reform in May and was the chairman of the Exeter branch but was removed from the post for what the party says was bringing it “into disrepute”.

Reform councillors reported to police by colleague, BBC

#Devon #EdHill #Exeter #failedToDoHomework #Infighting #NeilStevens #police #TonyStevens #vettingFail #InTheNews

The economic fantasies of Reform UK

Nigel Farage’s fiscal arithmetic is as eye-catching as it is unserious.

[…]

That reality is the sticking point. Raising the tax threshold to £20,000 is estimated to cost between £50bn and £80bn all on its own. Reform claims to have found a cool £225bn down the back of the Treasury sofa by scrapping net zero and insists it could save more still by cutting funding to quangos. Good luck, as they say, with that.

But how successful will Reform’s opponents be at pointing this out? Shadow chancellor Mel Stride has been out and about, calling Farage’s plans “fantasy economics”, while Labour has gone for “fantasy promises”. Farage’s answer to this charge was that all parties fudge the figures in their manifestos, suggesting Reform’s creative accounting was par for the course. Against the general backdrop of disillusionment with the political establishment, the narrative will be that Reform are no worse than the other parties – and that official estimates should be viewed sceptically anyway.

One attack line might get through. “Trussonomics on steroids” was how the Liberal Democrats responded to Tuesday’s proposals.

The economic fantasies of Reform UK, New Statesman

#failedToDoHomework #fantasyEconomics #netZero #ReformInefficiencyDepartment #Trussonomics #InTheNews