[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by jem

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.

You need to listen to watch what Farage is actually saying rather than what others are alleging. He promised efficiency in Reform councils, not cost savings.

Cost savings are pledged for central government.