*LBC*have reported that far-right party Reform have spent £600k in Kent on eight parking spaces, reserving six free spaces for elected councillors.
Reform won control of the local authority in May 2025 and has since sparked controversy over its spending decisions and failed savings promises in its election campaign. This latest policy is sure to spark fury among local taxpayers, with council workers now expected to pay for parking at work. According to LBC, the proposed parking charges for junior staff will raise £1m for struggling council budgets.
However, the preferential treatment extended to councillors over hard-working civil servants has further underscored Farage’s disregard for the working class.
Reform council spends £600k on eight free parking spaces for senior councillorshttps://t.co/XjNveahPww
— LBC (@LBC) January 31, 2026
Lies: Reform’s currency of choice
This shameful incident on Kent Council is highly revealing and indicative of Farage’s true ambitions. The results of his actions also blow holes through the nonsense the grifter pushed through the mainstream media to win votes. LBC reported that the Reform-controlled council conducted a cost review report into the proposed charges, finding that they would likely lead to a reduction in office use whilst negatively impacting staff morale and ongoing recruitment.
So much for Farage’s claims about the dangers to the UK economy of people working from home, a practice that has given many people a more flexible and affordable work–life balance. The changes imposed by the far-right party will likely drive further remote working, dragging the Reform leader’s hypocrisy back into full view.
Our own Ed Sykes reported in October on how the ‘posh-boy hatemongers’ clearly having little to offer, writing:
Millionaire Nigel Farage and his Reform party don’t serve ordinary people. They’ve attracted millions of pounds from super-rich individuals close to fossil fuels and finance. So it’s hardly surprising that they want to force dangerous things like fracking onto the ordinary communities voting for them. Reform’s private-school-educated climate-denier-in-chief Richard Tice is positively frothing at the mouth about the prospect. He lies about immigrants to distract people from the fact that he’s another posh boy born with a silver spoon in his mouth trying to squeeze money out of ordinary people and put it in the pockets of unscrupulous CEOs.
In a post on X, Reform MP Zia Yusuf criticises the supposed £1m cost implications of civil servants working from home. Yet his party’s leadership is now set to increase those very costs for Kent County Council, a risk flagged to Farage and co in the cost review report:
So what?
If they’re being as productive why do they need to be in the office?
If you cared about waste then cancel the renting of unnecessary office space from your rich mates.
By the way your boss, Farage was “working” from Ascot yesterday. pic.twitter.com/0il3NY6C6n
— Socialist Opera Singer (@OperaSocialist) June 21, 2025
These X accounts highlight a familiar pattern: when billionaires chase profit, it is ordinary people who are left to bear the cost:
£600k on free parking for Reform councillors.
Staff forced to pay.
£120k on new political advisers.
Reserves raided.
Council Tax up.
Locals forced to pay.Kent County Council under Reform: look after themselves first, send the bill to everyone else. https://t.co/t3ovDIMlLW pic.twitter.com/MVG4wjkhym
— Mario Creatura (@MarioCreatura) February 1, 2026
Anybody still think Reform UK is the voice for the working class? https://t.co/E5S2aBudky
— Workers Party of Britain (@WorkersPartyGB) February 1, 2026
Farage: The working class’s so-called hero
As MAGA voters increasingly abandon Trump over his hollow promises to the working class in the US, Reform is proving just as incapable of delivering on its lofty, Trump-inspired policies. With these failures mounting, questions grow about the far-right, billionaire-backed party’s prospects in the May 2026 local elections, as voters begin marking their ‘homework’ on councils the party already controls.
Anyone vying for office would be wise to confront these failures head-on and acknowledge who actually profits from Reform’s grip on power.
The super-rich and powerful.
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