Riforma afferma che i tagli fiscali del consiglio per le famiglie in difficoltà “non accadranno” nelle aree che controlla a causa del costo dell’assistenza sociale

Are Reform voters finally about to find out that politics isn’t as simple as screaming slogans and blaming everyone else?

I said when they got all these councilors elected that this could be the best thing that could happen. Because we’d get to see just how useless these people are in a substantial way, and the next GE will see Reform actually running on their record.

Shining a light on cockroaches might be scary, but at least once you know you have cockroaches you can start to plan how to deal with them.

Everyone is saying reforms not doing anything, I would like to see a breakdown for the social care budget.

I’m curious what it includes, if it includes go salaries or residential doctors it wasn’t too long ago there was something about them potentially striking for yet another 20% salary increase.

This will be exactly what happens if people are fooled into voting them into national power. All the social stuff that helps low-medium income people will suddenly be “unaffordable” while the rich make out like bandits. These people are extreme neoliberals.

Shocker – governing is harder than just being opposition in moaning about everything

Didn’t labour also reject calls for cutting council tax for struggling families? I don’t think tories cut council tax either, whats the story here?

To be fair social care is a massive problems for all local governments and needs sorting out….
But it’s always fun seeing reform having to back track and people see what frauds these grifters are

So reading that, as we know really, most councils are under financial pressure or even bankruptcy, by making cuts they can reduce council tsx rises, but not cut it.
If you have a council with ring fenced net zero budgets and dei, you may find council tax going up more.

James Butler in the LRB noted this two months ago

> t has been suggested that Reform will implode on contact with office. The press will certainly discover that some of its elected officials are not-so-crypto-fascists, cranks or crooks. It is very likely that they will run their councils into the ground (or simply leave the difficult bits to the officials they decry). They will find their hands are tied with statutory obligations and their budgets consumed by adult social care. But for the opportunist politician this simply provides an occasion for congenial fights: we could collect your bins better if we closed that migrant hotel, or the money we would have spent on potholes was eaten up by mandatory diversity assessments. Farage could well tour the news studios and accuse central government of shunting problems it doesn’t want to deal with – social care, special needs provision, statutory homelessness duties – onto local councils while slashing the funding needed to deal with them. And he’d have a point.

The reality of governing and just shouting slogans

Hang on. Weren’t our bills going to fall when Reform councillors tackled the boats, got rid of woke DEI stuff, and banned climate change?

It’s so easy to grift money from the sidelines blaming the ones in power and giving easy answers, no right wing politician with half a brain cell should ever actually want to get elected, it always crumbles so spectacularly within the first year