Reform claim 1.7 million saving at county council they weren't overseeing
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Reform claimed they'd saved British taxpayers £1.7 million - but it turns out the saving was made well before Reform took over

Bullshitters-in-chief Reform UK claim to have made £1.7 million in savings for Lancashire County Council. The problem is the savings are for the year before their Benny Hill Brigade councilors actually took over. Incredible work once again, lads.

Reform made the claim on X as part an advent countdown so cringe it has frankly left me aching for Shania law – let’s go girls, etc:

Great idea not to mention that the entire saving was made in the year ending March 2025, two months before Reform took over. pic.twitter.com/UeVm20Y32c

— Parody Nigel Farage (@Parody_PM) December 8, 2025

Is anyone surprised that Reform don’t seem to understand what a financial year is?

Reform are absolute wetties

When Reform won a load of council seats this summer they tried to carry out a DOGE-style programme of cuts borrowed from tech weirdo Elon Musk. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency was a plan to cut down on ‘waste’. Unsurprisingly, it was a complete disaster. So, being the fools that they are, the party decided to come up with their tweed version.

One X user said Reform had also cancelled a project for a vital school:

They also saved money by cancelling a desperately needed high school in Cottam, which had been agreed on and the land obtained. Oh and they cancelled it without any consolidation saying there’s nothing to discuss in monthly meetings. Merry fucking Christmas Lancashire.

— Ken (@ken_w_davies) December 9, 2025

That plan was always more ideological than pragmatic. What Reform did not understand – and likely did not care to – was that the issue goes far deeper than some sort of golf club quip about the Big State.

As the Institute of Government said in the summer:

Improving productivity in services is certainly achievable. But in most cases it will require careful planning, and targeted investment in IT systems and the public estate, not a populist chainsaw.

For parties like Reform, programs of cuts like these are fundamentally about “proof of their virility”. However, of course:

it will be residents reliant on social care and children’s services who will feel the sharp cuts of Reform’s chainsaw.

This is a party which set out to combine the ethics of Mussolini and the vibes of an ale-blurred BNP piss-up with the economics of Maggie Thatcher. The lesson on this story – like so many others about Reform – is that theirs is a politics of incompetence and bluster, built on an urge to punish vulnerable people.

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By Joe Glenton

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