Silly McSilly Face
Eidur Gudjohnsen
Well everyone has their opinions and everyone gets a vote! I guess we will see what 2029 brings....
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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)
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MartyFunkhouser
Terry Dyson
As long as the raving looney racist parties continue to split and multiply then you likely see the vote split on that side
Mikey10
Les Ferdinand
Reform’s councils are going under. Their plans simply don’t work at that level (see Kent) and so have no chance at a national level.
Like Polanski, it’s fantasy economics that doesn’t survive contact with reality.
Silly McSilly Face
Eidur Gudjohnsen
Councils are going under left, right and centre no matter who is in charge. Labour and Tory councils have failed. Local government is failing as a trend in and of itself. And its symptomatic of a much wider reform that is necessary.
robp135
Luke Young
Lost Mango
Jose Dominguez
Except it is.
Its so far from being anything other than about Nigel right now. More so than ever.
monkeybarry
Nayim
Is that Scara?
Lost Mango
Jose Dominguez
Totally agree with this but Nigel and his paymasters aren't the answer.
The main issue though is the way taxation is used. Councils are expected to deliver more on less so have to raise council tax and cut services, which isn't what they are elected to do.
The issue is the whole funding arrangement which isn't working, which is a Westminster problem rather than a local solution, which then reflects on who and where tax is paid and how much disappears offshore or into magic non-reachable black holes in the name of supporting 'growth' at the top.
Mikey10
Les Ferdinand
Reform were on record as saying they could turn Kent Council around once in charge (Farage initially said they would show there what they could do nationally) - they haven’t. They’ve been forced to cede to economic reality, now that they’ve realised that millions aren’t being ‘wasted’ on green and DEI initiatives.
And they’ve spent a lot of their time in-fighting.
In short, their governance there has been a s hitshow.
In other news on the self-styled man of the people…
Labour challenges Farage over cost of private jet trip to Maldives
Anna Turley questions revised £25,000 figure for failed attempt to reach Chagos Islands on jet linked to billionaire
MartyFunkhouser
Terry Dyson
Reform were on record as saying they could turn Kent Council around once in charge (Farage initially said they would show there what they could do nationally) - they haven’t. They’ve been forced to cede to economic reality, now that they’ve realised that millions aren’t being ‘wasted’ on green and DEI initiatives.
And they’ve spent a lot of their time in-fighting.
In short, their governance there has been a s hitshow.
In other news on the self-styled man of the people…
Labour challenges Farage over cost of private jet trip to Maldives
Anna Turley questions revised £25,000 figure for failed attempt to reach Chagos Islands on jet linked to billionairewww.theguardian.com
Yep, absolutely this
Everyone who has followed politics in the last 40 years knows running a council has its issues, no one is expecting utopia, but when its promised and promised at the expense of them hammering DEI and Green policy then you have to deliver.
The mental gymnastics about reducing taxes too when they were bang to rights is also just embarrassing
But yeh, the future