[The Weeping Angel]

Locally, I've seen letters from them with individuals claiming to be community champions.

[Boiler]

Whenever I hear the phrase "community champion" or "community leader" I visualise Adil Ray's "Citizen Khan"...

[Youngian]

But we're full up! Where will we house these babygrants when they grow up? Doesn't Matt know there's homeless ex-soldiers on the street?
Who the fuck wants to bring kids into the world when the older generation is hell bent on putting people like Trump and Farage in power to accelerate ecological collapse? Just so they can own libtards.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is a bit like the pre-"modernized" BNP. Hand the public a flyer with "too many foreigners", and some of them would agree. Hand them a flyer with "the real issue is the international Jewish conspiracy", and lots of the same people would be absolutely baffled at best. There's a difference between core group and wider public.

Most people who might vote Reform will be baffled by this, at best. It's not baffling if you're properly into the online far right. I'm tempted to say that Goodwin isn't that focussed on winning a seat in Manchester, but he should be. It would be a big boost to him and his party. I think he's gone completely mad.

[soulboy]

Our neighbours are weird. He hides whenever he sees us. She has barely spoken two words to us in the last decade, but is always sticky beaking whenever my parents or in-laws are house sitting.


We were doing a bit of gardening out front the other day when she came bounding over, chatty as you like. She announced that she was going to be standing as a Reform candidate in May and started to tell us how the borough has gone to the dogs.

My wife instantly piped up with "I am a civil servant and have to support the government of the day. I can't talk politics with you". 'Er next door slinked away.

She's a keeper, my wife.

[The Weeping Angel]

More from Kent County Council, the flagship for Reform.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr7jydyg5l0o

A councillor in charge of purging wasteful spending has resigned after being quoted saying his authority had "not made any cuts".

Matthew Fraser Moat was head of local government efficiency at Kent County Council but stepped down from the cabinet on Tuesday after an interview with the Financial Times.

The Reform UK councillor claimed his words were "twisted" but said he made a "lapse of judgement" and it had become clear that continuing in the role was "not sustainable".

The council, controlled by Reform since the party unseated the Conservatives in May, said it had "instilled a value for money, efficiency and commercial culture".

According to the newspaper article, Fraser Moat claimed the council "had not actually made any cuts" since Reform UK took over and pledged to open the books to find where waste might lie.

The councillor, head of Reform's Department of Local Government Efficiency (Dolge) initiative in Kent, reportedly said: "We haven't cut front-line services other than what the Conservatives had already planned to do."

Paul Chamberlain, a deputy cabinet member, was quoted in the article saying: "We made some assumptions that we would come in here and find some of the craziness found in America and that was wrong, we didn't find any of that."

Dolge launched in June with the backing of former party chairman Zia Yusuf, who quit the role shortly afterwards. It was modelled on billionaire Elon Musk's Doge advisory group as part of Donald Trump's second term as US president.

"I wish we could have found those big savings for Zia, it would have been a better story, but we didn't," Chamberlain reportedly told the Financial Times.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ro-savings

Reform UK’s flagship council has been accused of telling a “blatant lie” after its claim of nearly £40m in savings on net zero was found to be based on hypothetical projects for which there was no documentation.

Kent county council, which has a £2.5bn annual budget, is one of 10 where Nigel Farage’s party has outright control and is seen as a test case for whether the insurgent party can govern competently.

Soon after being elected, the council leader, Linden Kemkaran, promised the party’s “department of local government efficiency”, or Dolge, would bring a “laser-like focus on getting value for money”.

The council’s leadership claimed it had found £100m in savings, £39.5m of which come from what it said was two net zero-related projects: £32m by scrapping a programme to make properties more environmentally friendly, and £7.5m by not making the council’s fleet of vehicles electric by 2030.

After Kemkaran announced these at a council meeting last July, Polly Billington, a Labour MP in Kent, requested details of the apparent savings via a freedom of information request, setting off a months-long battle with the council.

[RedSparrows]

Our neighbours are weird. He hides whenever he sees us. She has barely spoken two words to us in the last decade, but is always sticky beaking whenever my parents or in-laws are house sitting.


We were doing a bit of gardening out front the other day when she came bounding over, chatty as you like. She announced that she was going to be standing as a Reform candidate in May and started to tell us how the borough has gone to the dogs.

My wife instantly piped up with "I am a civil servant and have to support the government of the day. I can't talk politics with you". 'Er next door slinked away.

She's a keeper, my wife.

No doubt now being retold as 'one of them government types told me I can't talk politics, so much for free speech'


Edit: re the above. One of these clowns ACTUALLY said they expected to find the same "craziness" as in America? Are these people fucking real? They're so fucking uselssly stupid and or unserious. Parodies of themselves. Pathetic.

[The Weeping Angel]

Our neighbours are weird. He hides whenever he sees us. She has barely spoken two words to us in the last decade, but is always sticky beaking whenever my parents or in-laws are house sitting.


We were doing a bit of gardening out front the other day when she came bounding over, chatty as you like. She announced that she was going to be standing as a Reform candidate in May and started to tell us how the borough has gone to the dogs.

My wife instantly piped up with "I am a civil servant and have to support the government of the day. I can't talk politics with you". 'Er next door slinked away.

She's a keeper, my wife.

Does your neighbour call herself a community champion?