No shit, after 14 years of austerity and shifting costs from central government to local authorities they have found every single penny left in the budget because they have no choice. The “waste” touted during election campaigns from the usual suspects is mostly “spending money on thing I think it shouldn’t be spent on” rather than inefficiency.
Funnily enough when in power they find that the populist talking points mean fuck all in the face of reality
Scotsman1047 on
The only waste of resources is Reform itself. Every council they are running proves this.
Krabsandwich on
To the surprise of absolutely no one they found nothing to cut but we had Reform shouting about how they would be saving a fortune any day now for months, absolute clown car of a party.
FornyHucker22 on
They did it wrong. They are meant to ask every employee to justify their existence then sack them anyway.
BrockChocolate on
I believe they did the same in Durham and campaigned they would cut ‘DEI’ costs and found there wasn’t any. However I think they’ve discovered if you just make stuff up you still get voted in.
Own-Victory473 on
Morons. Could ask any civil servant the state of things and theyd tell you we are as efficent as we already can be. Wtf more do these people want they offer no solutions
StreamWave190 on
There’s very little fat to trim at local council level.
There’s the scandal of outsourcing, which Reform UK were unique in saying they were going to tackle, but then did nothing about.
If you aren’t willing to tackle that, then you have to cut SEND provision for schoolchildren, or social care, or provision for the local homeless, or just raise council tax a lot, which appears to be what they’ve opted for, like Labour.
n0lesshuman on
Did it by any chance though find that Elon is in the Epstine files? “Girls FTW” what about Trump are they still big fans of his after what we have found out?
SignalButterscotch73 on
If 14+ years of tory austerity didn’t find it to cut… then it wasn’t there to be cut.
Nobody sane is surprised by this result. Even the reform con artists should have already predicted this.
BoringWozniak on
Reform are a bunch of rowdy pub bores that “reckon” they can do a better job of governing than actual experience civil servants.
MC897 on
I mean, anger at reform aside…. this is a good thing.
It means not all councils are run badly, there’s just no money available. I don’t think that’s a reform or Labour thing to learn, every party needs to understand the situation at the moment.
Reform understanding this should help them in theory now realise we can’t cut into oblivion… cuz there is nothing left to cut.
jim_cap on
So it actually performed better than the actual DOGE? Impressive.
PM_THE_REAPER on
That’s not how you do it Reform. Have you learnt nothing from DOGE?
“We saved £70 Gazillion and the numbers are perfect.”. That’s how you do it, wannabe Trumpers.
Visa5e on
Wait. Reform lied????
Not sure how I can get over this revelation.
ExoneratedPhoenix on
While people may find this funny, and it is in a sense given the big sell of finding all the inefficiencies and finding none, I think this is very much a won the battle lost the war.
Okay so now we know there is very little waste in local government, in multiple counties this has happened. Yet taxes are above wartime amounts and none of the services work.
This should frighten everyone, the fact no waste is occurring, and yet with the highest tax burden seen none of it funds anything.
Downright depressing.
gphillips5 on
Meanwhile, Reform in Nottingham spent 75K on flag shagging activities.
pajamakitten on
Yet other Reform councillors will promise the same in other areas and their voters will lap it up, ignoring this example of Reform being useless. Ideology trumps reality with Reform voters and they will never admit they were wrong to vote for Reform.
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No shit, after 14 years of austerity and shifting costs from central government to local authorities they have found every single penny left in the budget because they have no choice. The “waste” touted during election campaigns from the usual suspects is mostly “spending money on thing I think it shouldn’t be spent on” rather than inefficiency.
Funnily enough when in power they find that the populist talking points mean fuck all in the face of reality
The only waste of resources is Reform itself. Every council they are running proves this.
To the surprise of absolutely no one they found nothing to cut but we had Reform shouting about how they would be saving a fortune any day now for months, absolute clown car of a party.
They did it wrong. They are meant to ask every employee to justify their existence then sack them anyway.
I believe they did the same in Durham and campaigned they would cut ‘DEI’ costs and found there wasn’t any. However I think they’ve discovered if you just make stuff up you still get voted in.
Morons. Could ask any civil servant the state of things and theyd tell you we are as efficent as we already can be. Wtf more do these people want they offer no solutions
There’s very little fat to trim at local council level.
There’s the scandal of outsourcing, which Reform UK were unique in saying they were going to tackle, but then did nothing about.
If you aren’t willing to tackle that, then you have to cut SEND provision for schoolchildren, or social care, or provision for the local homeless, or just raise council tax a lot, which appears to be what they’ve opted for, like Labour.
Did it by any chance though find that Elon is in the Epstine files? “Girls FTW” what about Trump are they still big fans of his after what we have found out?
If 14+ years of tory austerity didn’t find it to cut… then it wasn’t there to be cut.
Nobody sane is surprised by this result. Even the reform con artists should have already predicted this.
Reform are a bunch of rowdy pub bores that “reckon” they can do a better job of governing than actual experience civil servants.
I mean, anger at reform aside…. this is a good thing.
It means not all councils are run badly, there’s just no money available. I don’t think that’s a reform or Labour thing to learn, every party needs to understand the situation at the moment.
Reform understanding this should help them in theory now realise we can’t cut into oblivion… cuz there is nothing left to cut.
So it actually performed better than the actual DOGE? Impressive.
That’s not how you do it Reform. Have you learnt nothing from DOGE?
“We saved £70 Gazillion and the numbers are perfect.”. That’s how you do it, wannabe Trumpers.
Wait. Reform lied????
Not sure how I can get over this revelation.
While people may find this funny, and it is in a sense given the big sell of finding all the inefficiencies and finding none, I think this is very much a won the battle lost the war.
Okay so now we know there is very little waste in local government, in multiple counties this has happened. Yet taxes are above wartime amounts and none of the services work.
This should frighten everyone, the fact no waste is occurring, and yet with the highest tax burden seen none of it funds anything.
Downright depressing.
Meanwhile, Reform in Nottingham spent 75K on flag shagging activities.
Yet other Reform councillors will promise the same in other areas and their voters will lap it up, ignoring this example of Reform being useless. Ideology trumps reality with Reform voters and they will never admit they were wrong to vote for Reform.