Reform party, now running Kent County Council are likely to raise the rate Council tax.

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Grantanow

It's not so easy running the show instead of mouthing off and rioting.

Correct.

Lancs County Council overwhelmingly fell to the Reform Party. One of their very first moves was to announce the closure of 5 care homes and several day centres.
Although the care homes have been given a reprieve, for the time being, the residents and relatives must feel as if they're treading on egg shells waiting to see what happens next.

Those new £600,000 parking spaces for Important Councillors have to be funded somehow....

Well, we’ve just had our Council tax bill through. KCC has increased the bill to the maximum of 5%.
Not quite what was promised…..

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Perhaps still relevant?
Now that Farage is sucking up to Trump?

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Reform also run Worcestershire county council, Worcestershire in the county I grew up in and I have friends who still live there, they tell me Reform have halted the building of a much needed high school meaning some pupils will have to travel to other high schools in the county. Reform are also exploring the possibility of raising the council tax by 10%.

Mt61

Yes I would say they’re all the same. Labour promised not to put up CT but did 😩

This is not accurate:
pa.media/blogs/fact-check/fact-check-labours-council-tax-promise-applied-to-2023-2024/

Newest development in the Kent County Council soap opera- a Reform councillor threatened to punch a colleague in a meeting ... as you do...

Populist keepingquiet. There is no evidence that they are running Kent County Council competently.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-uk-suspended-councillor-kent-county-council-b2859820.html

Oh and here's me thinking Reform was a popular party- must have got it all wrong...lol!

The only poll that cou is is the election. There's time for the penny to drop.

Yes, but the numbers are dropping.

But they're still ahead in the polls?

windmill1

Is Kent County Council the one with spotty, clueless 18 year olds trying to run it ?

No. They're not spotty as far as I know but they are clueless. It's so easy to scream 'waste' before the election and so difficult when they found the previous majority (Tories, in the case of Kent) had already stripped out waste. They also seem to fall out with each other: sensible Parties understand working as a team. They will undoubtedly have to put up Kent's council tax and the voters will have to 'suck it up' - isn't that the favoured expression?

As many who have promoted pro Russia views- including Farage. It would be good to have an update on the Frage's current views on Russia, Putin and the state of its 'democracy' at the very least- or is Putin still the political leader he admires?

I wonder how many Reform politicians will now come under scrutiny about Russian influence?

God help the people of Kent.

Anyone thinking of voting Reform in the next General Election should stay informed about Reform's management (if one can call it that) of Kent County Council and understand what that would mean for the UK as a whole.

In which case God help us all.

Probably. The site was sold earlier this year for a housing development. Someone didn’t get the memo that the school was closed in 2016.

In other news, Reform are falling apart in Cornwall too.

Extract:

Six months on from the local elections – after which Reform was unable to form an administration, leaving the Liberal Democrats and independents to set up a ruling coalition – the party’s presence in the county is in disarray following weeks of resignations, suspensions and infighting that mean Reform UK no longer holds the highest number of seats in the authority.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/16/when-reality-bites-the-rapid-rise-and-chaotic-fall-of-reform-uk-in-cornwall

Maremia

Did they just repaint the traffic hazard road signs outside a primary school...that has been closed for ten years????

I don't in all honesty, think that you could blame the the Reform councillors for that. It sounds more like a Works Dept. cock up...

Though that's the sort of 'waste' I'd expect the councillors to be jumping on

Did they just repaint the traffic hazard road signs outside a primary school...that has been closed for ten years????

Indeed Maremia. Interestingly, the foul mouthed bully who is the leader of the council is still in place : her critics are not.