Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works
Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works
Posted by ahothabeth
Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works
Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works
Posted by ahothabeth
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That’s the neat thing, they don’t need to know. They can just offer everyone unicorns and then blame everyone else when things go tits up. Again.
I think the entire analysis of the article is wrong.
The assumption by the journalist is they don’t know how government spending works.
I think they DO know, but are LYING to the public that some grand financial scam is happening that they’ve exposed, because their base is stupid, will believe it, and simply think ‘Whoa! Ain’t Reform grand, they hate immigrants too, dream party.’.
They take most of their prompts from MAGA, and lessons number 1 is REALITY DOES NOT MATTER, FACTS DON’T MATTER, ETHICS DO NOT MATTER, WINNING MATTERS. The UK ‘Doge’ they’ve formed will find money savings – if not in reality, in fantasy that will be told their base.
Party of amateurs led by professional grifter have no concept of actually governing. Who’d have thought?
This doesn’t show their lack of knowledge.
This shows their dishonesty, and how they lie to the easily lead and manipulated.
In truth, the £350 million figure represents the maximum potential value of a national recruitment framework hosted by Kent, not a direct expenditure by the council itself. This framework is designed to be used by various public sector bodies across the UK, including councils, NHS trusts, schools, and civil service agencies. It encompasses a wide range of recruitment services, such as permanent, interim, and executive search, vetting, onboarding, compliance, and payroll across multiple sectors.
The 350 is a ceiling, not money from a budget line.
Frameworks like this are a way of public sector organisations to band together and get a much better deal than if they went piecemeal to the market (if they are done right of course).
But on what Reform are saying, It’s just a lie.
Coming to the side of a Reform bus near you.
‘Exposed’ AKA obvious to anyone paying attention. Spare me the ‘people pointing out that Reform voters are thick will only make more people vote for them’ shite. They are thick, anyone still falling for Farage’s grift in 2025 is thick, they have no other excuse. Yes, the Tories are in disarray and Labour haven’t magically fixed 14 years of Tory incompetence in 11 months but that only excuses not voting for them, to actively vote for Farage’s mob can only be explained by stupidity. ‘Left behind’? Only in the intelligence stakes.
Not that I’m here to defend those cretins…but does anyone know how it works?
At this point in time, I think we need to come face to face with reality: most people are stupid. Here in NL, it looks as though the far right will win again even though they had a majority this time around and fucked around and did nothing. They don’t even know how to do a press conference.
I’m tired boss.
Just like Brexit voters didn’t know how Brexit works
Nobody is shocked by this. If we think things were bad under austerity, wait for this madness.
Yes, everyone who is fairly following what’s happening around them know Reform is unfit to rule. Same as brexit party they are simply feeding on British citizens discontent.
And yet people are so pissed off they for now want to vote for them.
It’s not about how bad Reform is, it’s about how bad Tories before and Labour currently are. Only way Labour can change this is by actually doing their effing job.
They’re simpletons convinced that everything is a conspiracy.
And I say that as someone who has first-hand experience of exactly how debilitatingly stupid and wasteful the overreliance upon consultants in local government is. The problem is that it’s necessitated by illogical spending rules and an abject unwillingness by successive governments to suitably fund councils, meaning they can’t pay decent wages, so turnover of high-quality staff is astronomical, so they’re all running on skeleton crews in primary service delivery departments and so can only staff critical departments by turning to recruitment agencies, who have them entirely over a barrel.
These are problems that Reform and its supporters will never countenance the solution to. These problems are directly caused by people who think like they do.
Those at the head of Reform know exactly what it is. They can lie about it though and get everyone who doesn’t know about it all riled up and angry, this includes their minions lower down their political party/I mean private members club.
Thats not the problem. The problem is the general population of voting people dont know this.
Reform is full of no idea types who have all the answers that would easily solve all problems but hope never to be in a position to face the problem
That’s letting them off the hook too easily, they do know, corruption is often masked as incompetence.
The irony of saying these rules make sure public procurement gets value for money…
TLDR: Zia Yusuf (who isn’t an MP, and no longer part of Reform) made a tweet that showed he misunderstood how a certain council contract framework worked.
This is the same sort of title that the Daily Mail would run when Diane Abbott says something nonsensical then people on here would complain and call it click bait.
But when the prestigious “East Anglia Bylines” does it for a party people don’t lie, it’s all of a sudden ok.
And that’s how they can promise snake oil to people who also don’t understand.
It appears to be a method of misappropriating funds that conveniently avoids the need for documentation. So they’re good at something.
Holy shat.And i heard that Yusef was the bright one among them.
Most of them probably don’t even know how to tie their own shoe laces. Most have zero experience of anything in government and some of these people if they get into power will be put in charge of some of the most important stuff in this country
I think they know how government spending works. They are relying on people who will vote for them being dumb enough to fall for it.
And which party does get how government spending works?
People complained about the frugality of the Conservatives and the ‘fiscal rules’ Labour now has.
Of course they don’t… they don’t need to as they just exploit the members ofnthe public who know 3ven less but are vulnerable to populism, tell them what they want to hear and its enough.
Its a con. You’d have thought after brexit they might have learnt, but no.
They do not want to. They are just doing what we saw with Brexit: promise anything and everything, no matter how feasible, to people who do not know better and do not want to. Vote for the right wing party if you want but know that Reform are not a party that will be good for anyone or anything; they are more clueless about how to run a country than a school council in a primary school.
they don’t even know the dictionary definition of the word ‘Reform’ got no chance with complicated maths.
Should be interesting to see how much they can steal from Kent before being caught with their hands in the till.
All I know is that decades of financial mismanagement by UK governments has meant there’s no money to spend, other then on financing debt and soon there won’t be enough wealthy people in the country to do that effectively either.
East Anglia Bylines written by the Bear!
Quality source!