#Reform UK’s showcase council in #Kent faces “extreme risk” and “instability”, opposition politicians have warned, after it passed its first budget
The party’s councillors voted it through on Thur night after their leaders announced a 3.99% council tax increase, 1% point under the limit before a referendum is required, despite promising before their election win not to raise tax
Green party’s Heaver described the budget as “a victory of political posturing over the interests of residents”
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Brian Collins, the deputy leader of #KCC, had no government experience before being in post.
Prior to being appointed, he ran a dog's kennel.
There are some people who have said Reform's governance of Kent smacks of incompetence, pointing to the first time ever county wide down grade educational Ofstead Report
Not me, I just think their abilities are best suited in dog's shit and we are just being led along
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A Reform UK cabinet member, the dreamboat Matthew Fraser Moat, in charge of purging Kent County Council (#KCC) of waste and inefficiency has resigned after remarks suggesting the authority had “not made any cuts”.
Yesterday, Mr Farage said £100 million had been saved.
Someone is not telling the truth.
I cannot believe it is a man who shoots foxes and wears orange trousers
"Does #Kent have to take all the under-18s that cross the channel and put them up at their own cost - yes, " said Mr #Farage
in fact ....
Kent County Council (#KCC) receives extra funding from the central government for housing and caring for under-18 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASCs). This includes specific grants to cover the cost of reception centres and care services, with recent, targeted injections of around £9.8 million to increase capacity.
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Farage is on the telly saying #'KCC have saved £100 million pounds
Let's look at just one little bit
CLAIM: £5.5m saved after paying off £50m Barclays loan 40 years early, saving £1,820 per day (£664,000 per year) in interest
Analysts, such as Cllr Kennedy, suggest the funds came from cash collected from taxpayers but not yet allocated to services.
He said: “These surplus funds are invested in short-term ‘Treasury Loans’ for which KCC receives interest of 4% to 5%
see the #KCC for more
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