Reform UK

Cllr David Wimble on Nigel Farage: A Pint, a Phone and ‘We Make It Up as We Go Along’

July 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

Satire occasionally arrives fully assembled. On page 45 of the latest Looker, David Wimble mocks Britain’s instant experts: “Apparently all you need to become Britain’s [...]

Exclusive: Royal British Legion Says Reform UK Fundraising at Hythe Armed Forces Day Was Unauthorised

July 14, 2026 // 2 Comments

The Royal British Legion says Reform UK wasn’t authorised to claim any connection with the charity or fundraise on its behalf at Hythe Armed Forces Day. The local branch [...]

KCC DOLGE: Reform UK’s Waste Hunt Finds “No Obvious Wasteful Spending” After £22.7m Overspend

July 1, 2026 // 1 Comment

Reform arrived at County Hall promising to hunt waste. Then KCC’s own DOLGE paper said the job was to check “there was no obvious wasteful spending”. That’s the [...]

Reform UK Loses High Court Bid to Block Voter Data Claim

June 22, 2026 // 0 Comments

Reform UK tried to block The Good Law Project’s data-rights claim ahead of the trial. The High Court wouldn’t do that. So, the claim goes on. And the basic question is, [...]

Reform UK’s Flag-and-Fury Playbook Is Already Running Kent

June 10, 2026 // 0 Comments

How a politics of flags, enemies, press bans and “common sense” is being tested from Westminster to County Hall in Kent There’s a moment when politics stops being [...]

Taxpayer Toast and Lazy Parents: Linden Kemkaran’s Breakfast Club Problem

May 20, 2026 // 1 Comment

Kent County Council’s Reform UK leader promised to put “the people of Kent at the heart of everything we do”. Then came breakfast clubs, hungry children, and a warning [...]

Farage Helicopter Row: How Reform’s David Wimble Put His Boss in the Spotlight

May 12, 2026 // 2 Comments

Nigel Farage now faces questions over undeclared helicopter travel linked to a Reform UK donor. The delicious Kent twist? The trail was opened up by Reform’s own Cllr David [...]

KCC Prayer Row: Reform Councillors Defy Legal Warning

May 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

No pothole has ever been filled by filming councillors saying the Lord’s Prayer. No care package has ever been arranged by singing the national anthem into a webcast. There [...]

KCC Adult Social Care: £62m Rise And Three Directors In One Year

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council says adult social care is improving. The payments data says it’s getting dearer. The audit report says the savings governance was weak. And since Reform [...]

KCC Spending: The £75m Rise, The £158m Mystery, And The Adult Social Care Reality

May 11, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council’s published payments over £250 rose by £75m in a year. Adult social care climbed by £62m. Children’s services appeared to fall by £97m. And more [...]

Reform UK Hythe Leaflet Raises Missing Imprint Questions

April 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

A two-sided Reform UK leaflet delivered in Hythe is loud on Labour, loud on Kent, loud on potholes, loud on common sense and loud on “change”. What it doesn’t [...]

Exclusive: David Wimble’s Two Unsatisfied CCJs and the Question Reform UK Cannot Dodge.

April 10, 2026 // 7 Comments

Exclusive The Reform UK politician who sits at the top table in Kent politics now has two unsatisfied County Court judgments showing at his Littlestone address. One might be [...]

Reform UK at KCC Says Councillors’ 3.8% Pay Rise Is “Reasonable” — As Council Tax Rises 3.99%

March 21, 2026 // 0 Comments

At Kent County Council, a 3.99% rise in council tax is apparently the stern medicine residents must swallow. A 3.8% rise in councillors’ allowances, however, is “entirely [...]

Reform UK KCC Cabinet Member David Wimble’s Looker Accused of Misleading Readers on Kent County Council Debt

March 6, 2026 // 3 Comments

The Shepway Vox Team went back to the documents. What we found was not a careful picture of Kent County Council’s current debt costs, but an old snapshot repackaged as a [...]

Cllr David Wimble Suggests Pulling Turner Contemporary Funding After MP Challenges Kent County Council ‘Savings’ Claim

February 16, 2026 // 3 Comments

When a senior politician is accused of inflating a headline “savings” number, there’s a simple, boring remedy: publish the workings, explain the language, and let [...]

Kent County Council Budget: Reform UK’s Debt Pledge and the Risks Behind the Numbers

February 13, 2026 // 0 Comments

After more than seven hours of debate at Sessions House, Reform UK passed its first ever Kent County Council budget — and did it with a political flourish that could not [...]

Kent County Council HQ U-Turn: County Hall Basement Contract Casts Doubt on Invicta House “Savings”

February 6, 2026 // 1 Comment

Reform UK promised a cheaper headquarters plan: ditch the Invicta House refurbishment, bring staff back into Sessions House, and spend “a relatively small amount” [...]

Kent County Council Budget Compared: Reform UK 2026/27 vs Conservatives 2025/26 — The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

January 9, 2026 // 2 Comments

Kent County Council (KCC) has now put two very different budget stories on the public record. The first is the Conservative administration’s approved 2025/26 budget (voted [...]

Reform UK’s Paranoid “Coup” Claim in Kent: Political Theatre Meets the Hard Limits of the Law

December 22, 2025 // 3 Comments

By any normal standard of political language, accusing the Prime Minister of plotting a “coup” against Kent County Council is the sort of thing you say when you’ve run [...]

Michael Hadwen at Kent County Council as Reform UK Creates Taxpayer-Funded Political Assistant Roles: Has He Already Been Appointed?

December 19, 2025 // 0 Comments

Updated: 19 Dec 15:55 Mr Michael Hadwen was in the Kent County Council chamber yesterday. On its own, that is not a crime, a scandal, or even unusual: local democracy is [...]

Kent County Council Political Assistants: Reform UK Plan Could Cost Taxpayers Up to £98,564 a Year in Salaries (Plus On-Costs)

December 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent County Council will be asked at Full Council tomorrow (Thursday 18 December) to approve the creation of Political Assistant (agenda item 11) posts for qualifying [...]

Kent County Council’s Own Population Projections Show an Ageing Crisis That Depends on More Migration and Births – While Its Reform UK Leaders Attack Both

December 11, 2025 // 1 Comment

When the leader of Kent County Council, Cllr Linden Kemkaran – pictured, went on KMTV after Rachel Reeves scrapped the two-child benefit cap, her message was blunt. [...]

KCC Leaders Meet Sir Roger De Haan in Folkestone: What’s on the Public Record?

December 10, 2025 // 1 Comment

A set of photographs posted online by Cllr John Baker (Reform UK, Kent County Council) shows a small delegation meeting in Folkestone with Sir Roger De Haan, followed by what [...]

Reform UK’s Kent Highways Contract: KCC’s “£50m-a-Year” Ringway Deal vs the Official £2bn Price Tag — Is It Value for Money?

December 8, 2025 // 0 Comments

Updated: 9 Dec @ 09:20 Reform-led Kent County Council announced on 19 November 2025 that Ringway will take over its core highways maintenance contract from May 2026, [...]

Kent County Council Budget Overspend at Half-Time: Reform UK Era Faces Adult Social Care Crisis

November 19, 2025 // 0 Comments

Half-way through the 2025–26 financial year, the scoreboard at County Hall does not make pretty reading. Against a net revenue budget of £1.53 billion, Kent County Council [...]

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