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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Why would they screw up? Farage has been very careful with his selection process this time around, and they are pledged to make local authorities more efficient wherever possible. This should be easier in councils previously run by Labour.
Financial savings will not be the priority until they are forming a Reform UK government, because something like 75% of the budget is spent on social care and most of the remainder is on other statutory services, which have to be performed as dictated by central government. All Reform can deliver until they are forming GE is these same services, delivered as efficiently as possible.
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Yes but you can pledge whatever you want - the problem is in the execution. Say Reform go in to these elections promising to ‘cut waste’, ‘improve efficiency’, ‘save money’, ‘reduce costs for Council tax payers’, basically offer the usual easy answers for complex problems? And then they fail totally? There are no savings, Council tax goes up, libraries close, etc.
It is easy to simply search for ‘Reform run Council failures’ and find similar examples. Yes you can argue that the sources are biased, but is there a nugget of truth in them?
Now it won’t matter that Reform will argue that ‘it’s not our fault - if only we were in Government.....’, people will rightly question why they made promises that their either couldn’t fulfil or simply were too incompetent to do so.
No Seph is quite right, doing well in the local elections could actually prove to be disastrous for Reform in the long term.