Reform UK mette gli adolescenti responsabili dei servizi pubblici vitali
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/05/nigel-farage-reform-uk-teenage-councillors-vital-public-services
di Wagamaga
Reform UK mette gli adolescenti responsabili dei servizi pubblici vitali
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/05/nigel-farage-reform-uk-teenage-councillors-vital-public-services
di Wagamaga
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Reform UK’s local election wins have seen teenagers left in charge of vital public services, including a 19-year-old who is overseeing children and family services while still at university.
Two months on from the elections in which Nigel Farage’s party took overall control of 10 councils, concerns have been raised about the experience of candidates who have been appointed to roles with wide-ranging responsibility.
At Leicestershire county council, Reform councillor Charles Pugsley, 19, has been made the cabinet member for children and family services.
Pugsley’s elevation has caused particular concern, as has that of Joseph Boam, a 22-year-old who has been made the deputy council leader and handed the adult social care portfolio, despite having previously expressed the view that “depression isn’t real”.
Both are defenders of a Reform policy that would block the council from flying community emblems such as the Pride and disabled people’s flags over council property.
More than 100 social workers and other employees at the council have now signed a letter condemning the policy, which they allege “promotes exclusion and marginalisation”.
According to the anti-extremism campaign group, Hope Not Hate, an account appearing to belong to Boam had frequently retweeted and posted apparent praise for the misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate from a now deleted social media account.
I can’t explain it, but young Right Wingers all have _that_ look to them
A preview of the national government in 2029 if the Farage fans on this sub get their way.
Of course not everyone voted for them but the majority did. You reap what you sow.
Dishonest title. UK electorate puts teenagers in charge of vital public services, via public democratic vote.
I know I bang on about youth engagement in politics but i didnt mean hiring the inbetweeners
The left want the vote at 16 so this is perfect yeah?
Are they actually like, any good? Yeah probably lacking experience but what if they are doing a decent and competent job?
I guess children are easier for them to manipulate and control, like Little Balls or whoever in the US.
I don’t like Reform but if they were Greens councillors, the same people complaining would be ecstatic about it.
Well after decades of having pensioners in charge of vital public services (including multiple members of the current cabinet), I guess we’ll see if young people manage to fuck things up as badly..
>Including a 19 year old who has been put in charge of children’s and family services
When I was 22 I got put in position of responsibility over a surveying department at a fluorite mine. I thought I was “the guy” and knew better than everyone else because of my masters degree and how young I was for the job. Turns out I absolutely didn’t. I was a naive idiot who needed at least another 8 years of development in a junior role. I made A LOT of f*ck ups, that cost the business time and money.
The chance to be in a position of real power and responsibility *absolutely* goes to your head when you’re that young.
But more importantly, what does a 19 year old boy know about the graft, responsibility and sacrifice for caring for families and children.
Er, didn’t the public vote for them, so this is what happens when you vote for v young immature people into positions of responsibility. Thankfully they’ll have a dept under them to steer them, as they probably do whoever was in the role.
These poor kids are just puppets and are going to be pushed off the bridge the moment things go south
Why do I feel that if this had been a youngin from labour that it would be celebrated? lol