Darren Grimes’ Reform council sees financial black hole grow by £11m
Darren Grimes’ Reform council sees financial black hole grow by £11m
Posted by F0urLeafCl0ver
Darren Grimes’ Reform council sees financial black hole grow by £11m
Darren Grimes’ Reform council sees financial black hole grow by £11m
Posted by F0urLeafCl0ver
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Maximum rise in council tax and cuts to services. Good job Reform 👍.
Who’d have gussed.
Amazing work Reform, wonder who your going to blame for this.
I, for one, am shocked that a council with a deputy leader who didn’t finish their fashion and business studies degree and who has never managed anything more demanding than his mum’s expectations, is experiencing financial difficulties.
*Shocked.*
Good old craftywank has moved onto to spunking council funds away
Is it being used to keep his face from slipping further away from his forehead?
Why would Labour allow this to happen?!
/s, obviously.
My council is doing ‘well’.
So far they have spent the majority of the Councils cash reserves on PR pieces that don’t really amount to anything other than one off pieces of maintenance. Commissioned an external auditor despite there already having been an audit which tells them what efficiencies can be made (they just aren’t juicy like DEI or Net zero).
Now they are determined to end working from home on the grounds of ‘collaboration’. This is despite the Council being part of a university study which is showing that flexible working is reducing costs, increasing staff wellbeing and improving productivity. They also ignored the big problem with bringing people in:
There isn’t enough office space to do it!
So now they are looking into renting out office spaces across the county to bring people into. Which is not only a waste of money. It doesn’t actually do what they said they wanted it to do, which is increase collaborative working (because teams will be spread out across the county).
“Performative ideology before logic” should be Reforms motto.
Man who legally couldn’t fill in a form is part of a Council administration where it’s financial situation gets substantially worse. In all honesty this is going to get substantially worse nationally during 26/27. The amount of Council that are financially adrift (yes it’s adult and child social care) is huge.
https://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/news-and-press-releases/2025/london-boroughs-face-impossible-ps4bn-funding-gap-coming-years
This is data for London and this year looks bad enough. The next 4 years are off the chart bad.
Who would have thought that someone who was caught having a crafty wank under the desk at secondary school wouldn’t be the right fit for a council position?
Imagine having a Reform council and Luke the Nuke as your MP
When you vote for clowns you can’t be surprised it’s a clown show you get
Was this to pay for all the flags they’re putting up?
I bet he is still searching everywhere for all those DEI’s, walking around the offices on a daily basis searching cupboards and basements, maybe he will find some in the janitors shed? Reform said it was easy, cut DEI departments and stop wasteful spending. Whats taking so long?
Imagine being so stupid to have voted for this obvious grifter.
Yeah, sure, but imagine how much bigger that black hole would have been if Reform hadn’t valiantly cut all those DEI woke diversity adviser roles. It would probably be £11 *billion*!!!
Just for conversation, is there anyone here who:
* lives in the Durham County Council area, and
* voted for Reform to run their council, and
* would like to give us an insight into their Expectations vs Reality?
For once it’s not Kent
Its Durham Council
Still a shit show eh
A preview of what will happen on a much larger scale if we’re ever stupid enough to let the Reform UK Ltd grifters anywhere near national government.
Mental note: change can be good, and in this case. Bad