And so it goes, that whenever the agitator, the one with the simple solutions and the easiest promises actually gets the reins of power, they realise that the previous ruler wasn’t as incompetent or greedy as they painted them, it was always going to be just as hard as they told you it was.
Promises may evaporate on contact with air.
an0mn0mn0m on
> Asked if he would repeat the policy at elections in 2026, he said Reform UK was now campaigning on its record.
Reform UK is almost entirely ex-Tory now. That record is not so great.
MultiMidden on
Yet he repeats his other lie that there’s excessive expenditure as Reform know full well from their councils.
Particular_Tough4860 on
>”We have saved more than £300m in the 10 councils that we run, and our council tax rises are lower than any other party,” he said.
I really hate this blatant post-truth campaigning.
The figures have time and again been proved completely false. His own doge team here in Kent resigned from their doge positions after admitting there had been no savings (confirming what was already public knowledge).
Yet they just keep repeating it like somehow that will make it true. And for a healthy proportion of the electorate, it will be true to them.
MoleUK on
But there was so much waste and fraud to cut Nigel, so you said.
Or was that all bollocks like everything else, just promising simple fixes to complex problems to get elected.
And if he does get elected, i’m sure he’ll take the blame for being wrong and oversimplifying. Just kidding, he’d blame the “deep state”.
According-Secret9516 on
1992 Tory election campaign:
” Labour Tax bombshell”
Major won. Guess what he did?
Then the economy crashed (black Wednesday).
High unemployment.
And let’s not forget the Poll tax.
Why is this important?
Farage is a neo Thatcherite
RaidersGunz on
I literally paid it last week, it was £1,989 up £97 from thebyear prior.
Squeezing everyone to their limits.
Kate_Electro on
It’s like that love in an elevator is council tax for a Reform councillor.
mrafinch on
It has to go up **BUT** we should be paying as little tax as possible
If I was a fan of reform, I’d do the gymnastics to make this make sense
Optimaximal on
>He pledged his party would “start to cut excessive expenditure” so it could raise council tax by less than other parties.
Of course, they can never actually point to much, if any, excessive expenditure…
DaDaGar96 on
I bet they will cut income tax and increase prices so all the cut tax goes into their pockets
ScottOld on
But reform said they weren’t, yet another U-turn from a man who has U-turned on his own election manifesto.. while not in power
stoicnidelst on
Instead of constantly attacking tax which we all inevitably have to pay. How about we frame tax as a positive and have it actually work for us and help build a better country? Would save a lot of this farce which is getting really boring now
Iridemymasturbike on
I have a counter offer, how about councils take a pay cut and make their spending public.
nintendofan2_0 on
Yeah, in politics backtracking is common.
Nowhere near as common as it is in the Reform party. I can’t fathom how people still support them.
tar-mirime on
Hang on, I thought they could make huge savings by eliminating waste. Is he now they saying there wasn’t lots of unnecessary spending that could be cut? I’m shocked.
pajamakitten on
Because, as anyone with a little political knowledge knew, councils are strapped for cash because of the ever-increasong costs of their statutory duties i.e. social care, SEND children etc. and not, like Reform claimed, diversity officers and other superfluous ‘woke nonsense’. If Farage’s supporters could read or had any interest in politics as it is (not as how their chosen media sells it to them as) then they would have realised that an Elon-style DOGE attempt was always doomed to fail.
SgtBukkakeMan on
Local government funding is broken beyond repair at this point. Anyone promising to cut spending or reduce council tax is either lying or a moron.
I don’t think the public realise how dire it is at most councils. Partly because the media keeps spinning their tall tales about work from home and gold plated pensions.
Helpful-Juggernaut33 on
Born and bred liar. That slug has absolutely no idea how to run to the end of his garden path, let alone anything real.
All those promises, all the hot air about corrupt councils. first thing they do is roll over and break one of the primary promises.
filth.
Fra5er on
OR, GOD FORBID, YOU GET THAT TAX MONEY FROM CORPORATIONS DODGING TAX AND/OR THE ULTRA WEALTHY WHO DONT PAY THEIR SHARE, NIGEL.
You absolute dim witted frog looking cunt
PurahsHero on
As a former councillor, I have worked with the kinds of people who are now Reform councillors. People think they are racist, and they probably are. But they are worse than that.
They are stupid, and not just stupid, but completely unable to learn their lessons.
They go into highly technical areas, and think that if they just apply some common sense and shout at things, then everything will run perfectly. And they don’t understand why that doesn’t work.
A good example is how, for ages, a town near me has wanted a bypass. I worked for the council at the time. We were in a meeting with a councillor, who is now a Reform candidate, who told us that we were all useless and how him and his mate can get the road built in a weekend. We had to spend far too long explaining to him that you can’t just go on someone’s land without permission, and any road built in a weekend would be destroyed by the first lorry that crossed it.
He is still suggesting this as a solution, even now.
dan_in_his_own_way on
I thought he said he wouldn’t…🤔Then did…and spent weeks arguing he never said it, even though it was on record countless times. I can’t believe anyone takes him seriously or gives him any screen time.
hraun on
Actually no, that’s not correct.
Corporation tax on large companies needs to be correctly applied.
Council tax has nothing to do with it yer dickhead.
Lioris_13 on
Wonder if it would go up less were they not giving themselves pay rises & wasting cash on fucking flags
LyingFacts on
Your meant to say this day one after winning! Lol.
Every election cycle it’s promises and then realities.
It’s almost like we have to be grown up and realise if you have want a functioning society then taxation is a must.
People banging on about “Khan’s London”
Jumping to a Muslim country, Dubai, to evade taxes, lol, then claim to be patriots! Couldn’t make it up!
But I thought there was billions in excess and waste his DOGE teams would find and taxes wouldn’t need to go up? Surely Nige wasn’t bullshitting the gullible rubes was he? /s
Johnnyfootwrinkle on
No, no it doesn’t ‘have’ to do anything. It’s people and greed screwing everytihg up for thr rest of us. bad mismanagement of public funds. Contractors profiteering from the fact it’s govt money so they rinse the deals.
When are we going to hear politicians talk about people having an easy life, and I don’t mean sitting around all day. But a sress free existence that doesn’t endlessly cost more and more as if we are some sort of piggy bank for the authorities to do over?
Mikewoody47 on
Feels like it’s becoming more and more obvious that he doesn’t actually want to get into power.
GoodRabbitSoup on
Farage is absolutely terrified he might actually get elected as Prime Minister and solve theses issues he’s shouted about from the sidelines.
The grift will be gone.
LateToTheParty013 on
Been raising all the 5% last 5 years we live here. From 1700ish to like 2200 I think
raquetracket on
No, they won’t need to increase them. Simply fill the potholes with library books from the closure of the libraries and school books if need be……. I can count on your vote can’t I?
Worried_Let4942 on
I paid £300 this month for my council tax in Cardiff for a two bed flat. What did I get for it? Fucking £300.
Right_Advertising_85 on
Or, here me out… Pay the councillors less ridiculous sums of money so that the money can be redistributed more fairly and used more wisely.
martzgregpaul on
“Let ordinary people pay more while we give our rich mates huge tax cuts”
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And so it goes, that whenever the agitator, the one with the simple solutions and the easiest promises actually gets the reins of power, they realise that the previous ruler wasn’t as incompetent or greedy as they painted them, it was always going to be just as hard as they told you it was.
Promises may evaporate on contact with air.
> Asked if he would repeat the policy at elections in 2026, he said Reform UK was now campaigning on its record.
Reform UK is almost entirely ex-Tory now. That record is not so great.
Yet he repeats his other lie that there’s excessive expenditure as Reform know full well from their councils.
>”We have saved more than £300m in the 10 councils that we run, and our council tax rises are lower than any other party,” he said.
I really hate this blatant post-truth campaigning.
The figures have time and again been proved completely false. His own doge team here in Kent resigned from their doge positions after admitting there had been no savings (confirming what was already public knowledge).
Yet they just keep repeating it like somehow that will make it true. And for a healthy proportion of the electorate, it will be true to them.
But there was so much waste and fraud to cut Nigel, so you said.
Or was that all bollocks like everything else, just promising simple fixes to complex problems to get elected.
And if he does get elected, i’m sure he’ll take the blame for being wrong and oversimplifying. Just kidding, he’d blame the “deep state”.
1992 Tory election campaign:
” Labour Tax bombshell”
Major won. Guess what he did?
Then the economy crashed (black Wednesday).
High unemployment.
And let’s not forget the Poll tax.
Why is this important?
Farage is a neo Thatcherite
I literally paid it last week, it was £1,989 up £97 from thebyear prior.
Squeezing everyone to their limits.
It’s like that love in an elevator is council tax for a Reform councillor.
It has to go up **BUT** we should be paying as little tax as possible
If I was a fan of reform, I’d do the gymnastics to make this make sense
>He pledged his party would “start to cut excessive expenditure” so it could raise council tax by less than other parties.
Of course, they can never actually point to much, if any, excessive expenditure…
I bet they will cut income tax and increase prices so all the cut tax goes into their pockets
But reform said they weren’t, yet another U-turn from a man who has U-turned on his own election manifesto.. while not in power
Instead of constantly attacking tax which we all inevitably have to pay. How about we frame tax as a positive and have it actually work for us and help build a better country? Would save a lot of this farce which is getting really boring now
I have a counter offer, how about councils take a pay cut and make their spending public.
Yeah, in politics backtracking is common.
Nowhere near as common as it is in the Reform party. I can’t fathom how people still support them.
Hang on, I thought they could make huge savings by eliminating waste. Is he now they saying there wasn’t lots of unnecessary spending that could be cut? I’m shocked.
Because, as anyone with a little political knowledge knew, councils are strapped for cash because of the ever-increasong costs of their statutory duties i.e. social care, SEND children etc. and not, like Reform claimed, diversity officers and other superfluous ‘woke nonsense’. If Farage’s supporters could read or had any interest in politics as it is (not as how their chosen media sells it to them as) then they would have realised that an Elon-style DOGE attempt was always doomed to fail.
Local government funding is broken beyond repair at this point. Anyone promising to cut spending or reduce council tax is either lying or a moron.
I don’t think the public realise how dire it is at most councils. Partly because the media keeps spinning their tall tales about work from home and gold plated pensions.
Born and bred liar. That slug has absolutely no idea how to run to the end of his garden path, let alone anything real.
All those promises, all the hot air about corrupt councils. first thing they do is roll over and break one of the primary promises.
filth.
OR, GOD FORBID, YOU GET THAT TAX MONEY FROM CORPORATIONS DODGING TAX AND/OR THE ULTRA WEALTHY WHO DONT PAY THEIR SHARE, NIGEL.
You absolute dim witted frog looking cunt
As a former councillor, I have worked with the kinds of people who are now Reform councillors. People think they are racist, and they probably are. But they are worse than that.
They are stupid, and not just stupid, but completely unable to learn their lessons.
They go into highly technical areas, and think that if they just apply some common sense and shout at things, then everything will run perfectly. And they don’t understand why that doesn’t work.
A good example is how, for ages, a town near me has wanted a bypass. I worked for the council at the time. We were in a meeting with a councillor, who is now a Reform candidate, who told us that we were all useless and how him and his mate can get the road built in a weekend. We had to spend far too long explaining to him that you can’t just go on someone’s land without permission, and any road built in a weekend would be destroyed by the first lorry that crossed it.
He is still suggesting this as a solution, even now.
I thought he said he wouldn’t…🤔Then did…and spent weeks arguing he never said it, even though it was on record countless times. I can’t believe anyone takes him seriously or gives him any screen time.
Actually no, that’s not correct.
Corporation tax on large companies needs to be correctly applied.
Council tax has nothing to do with it yer dickhead.
Wonder if it would go up less were they not giving themselves pay rises & wasting cash on fucking flags
Your meant to say this day one after winning! Lol.
Every election cycle it’s promises and then realities.
It’s almost like we have to be grown up and realise if you have want a functioning society then taxation is a must.
People banging on about “Khan’s London”
Jumping to a Muslim country, Dubai, to evade taxes, lol, then claim to be patriots! Couldn’t make it up!
[oh…..](https://tenor.com/en-GB/view/funny-old-lady-shut-up-gif-15165286)
But I thought there was billions in excess and waste his DOGE teams would find and taxes wouldn’t need to go up? Surely Nige wasn’t bullshitting the gullible rubes was he? /s
No, no it doesn’t ‘have’ to do anything. It’s people and greed screwing everytihg up for thr rest of us. bad mismanagement of public funds. Contractors profiteering from the fact it’s govt money so they rinse the deals.
When are we going to hear politicians talk about people having an easy life, and I don’t mean sitting around all day. But a sress free existence that doesn’t endlessly cost more and more as if we are some sort of piggy bank for the authorities to do over?
Feels like it’s becoming more and more obvious that he doesn’t actually want to get into power.
Farage is absolutely terrified he might actually get elected as Prime Minister and solve theses issues he’s shouted about from the sidelines.
The grift will be gone.
Been raising all the 5% last 5 years we live here. From 1700ish to like 2200 I think
No, they won’t need to increase them. Simply fill the potholes with library books from the closure of the libraries and school books if need be……. I can count on your vote can’t I?
I paid £300 this month for my council tax in Cardiff for a two bed flat. What did I get for it? Fucking £300.
Or, here me out… Pay the councillors less ridiculous sums of money so that the money can be redistributed more fairly and used more wisely.
“Let ordinary people pay more while we give our rich mates huge tax cuts”
Man of the people indeed