1 MINUTE AGO: Nigel Farage UNCOVERS SHOCKING Council SPENDING HABITS | Reform UK Audit

🚨 BREAKING: Nigel Farage Launches Council Spending Audit Across England!
Just 1 minute ago, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage revealed staggering misuse of taxpayer funds by local councils in England. With Reform UK now in charge of 10 councils, a full-scale audit is underway — uncovering outrageous expenses on diversity training, vape schemes, and luxury furniture, while essential services face brutal cuts.

🧾 Highlights from the video:

£120M Net Zero budget in Durham 🚫

£44K consultant in West Northamptonshire 🧑‍💼

£1.1M for free vapes in North Northants 🚬

£150M failed recycling plant in Derbyshire ♻️

£20M unused cycle lanes in Doncaster 🚲

£12K trip to Cannes by Kent Council officials 🌴

💬 With rising council tax and crumbling services, this video dives deep into how YOUR money is being spent.

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Nigel Farage has just launched a political broadside, this time aimed directly at local councils. With Reform UK now controlling 10 councils across England, Farage has announced a sweeping audit of council spending, deploying a team of independent auditors to scrutinize everything from historic budgets to recently signed contracts that may lack transparency. This bold move comes amid growing public outrage over rising council tax rates, even as local services continue to decline. One of the most controversial examples is Durham, where the local council has committed a staggering 120 million pounds to reach net zero emissions by 2030. While climate goals are important, many residents are questioning whether such massive spending is justified when households are already battling a cost of living crisis. In West Northamptonshire, outrage grew after it was revealed the council spent £44,000 to hire a single waste strategy consultant. With frontline services under strain, taxpayers are asking why are consultancy fees untouched while bin collections and local maintenance are slashed. Further scrutiny falls on Northn Northamptonshire where a 1.1 million pound contract was awarded to distribute free vapes to smokers. Though intended to support public health, many question whether this initiative truly represents good value for money. In Lincolnshshire, eyebrows were raised over £11,500 spent annually on diversity training courses, especially as essential services face cutbacks. And in Lancaster, a £500,000 plus 4-year contract for ergonomic office chairs has drawn widespread backlash. Many residents believe expensive furniture shouldn’t take priority over roads, schools, and care centers. Perhaps most alarming is the situation in Darbasher where 150 million pounds has been poured into a nonoperational recycling plant. Now a symbol of gross mismanagement. Meanwhile, Doncaster Council has spent 20 million pounds on cycle lanes, but usage has barely increased in Nottinghamshire. £150,000 was used to develop the May not app which has received minimal public engagement with barely any reviews. And in Kent, the council has sparked anger by opening offices in Brussels and Staffordshire while sending staff on a 12,000lb trip to a French property conference. All while local services face continuous cuts. Public fury is mounting and Farage appears to have struck a political nerve. If these audits reveal further financial waste, the ripple effect could shake local government systems across the country. Reform UK Chairman Richard Ty has also weighed in, slamming the growing mountain of council debt, inflated executive salaries, and unnecessary contracts. He warned that without swift reform, vital services will collapse further, leaving residents with little more than potholeridden roads and irregular bin collections. William Yarwood echoed these concerns, demanding transparency and accountability for how council tax is spent. He stressed that if Reform UK wants to be seen as a viable alternative, it must act decisively. Farage was clear. Independent financial experts will be brought in and unchecked spending will end. He accused councils of funneling taxpayer money into areas well outside their remit, declaring that the era of reckless financial management must end immediately. And that’s not all in today’s report. You’ll also witness an explosive showdown in Parliament over immigration leadership and integrity. Iet Cooper called out the prime minister branding him a political weather vein and condemned the government’s immigration policies as utterly useless. Stay tuned to see just how intense the clash becomes. Hello, Home Secretary Chris Phelp. Thank you. Thank you, Madame Deputy Speaker, and I thank the Home Secretary for advanced sight of her statement, not that it was necessary given the extensive leaks and pre-briefing. Now, the Prime Minister claimed this morning that all of a sudden he wants to control immigration. I must say that came to me as something of a surprise. The prime minister seems to have undergone a miraculous conversion. He has apparently repudiated everything he has ever believed. Or perhaps the prime minister is doing what he always does, saying whatever he thinks people want to hear at any given point in time. Perhaps the prime minister sees his minus 36% approval ratings and this paper is his desperate response. Because Mr. Speak. Madame Deputy Speaker, we know what the prime minister really thinks about immigration because he has often told us. The prime minister once described immigration law and border control as racist. He signed a letter opposing the deportation of dangerous foreign criminals, including murders and rapists. He pledged he would reintroduce full free movement of people. And he sermonized enthusiastically about the benefits of migration. He even said the Yleswood immigration removal center should be closed down. Perhaps the home secretary can tell us if she’ll be following the prime minister’s advice on that one. So given what the prime minister really thinks about immigration, it is no surprise that in 2025, this Labor government has presided over the worst start to the year in history for illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel, up 30% since the election last year and the worst start to a year ever under this Labor government. So, it’s also no surprise that this plan is so weak that it barely scratches the surface. On its very first page, it seeks to create a false impression. It says visa applications, and the home secretary repeated this a minute ago, saying visa applications are 40% down since the election, implying that is somehow down to this government. Why are visa applications actually down by 40%. It is because of the changes made by the last government which came into force in April 2024 and from the previous peak net migration is already forecast to reduce by around about half a million. And if the home secretary is now all of a sudden so keen on reducing migration, will she explain why she suspended the conservative plan to increase the family visa threshold to £38,000? It was due to come into force last month. Will she tell us when that change will now be introduced? Now, the truth is, Madame Deputy Speaker, this plan is weak and it will have little impact. The Home Secretary admitted on Laura Coonsburg’s program yesterday, the measures will only reduce net migration by 50,000, just onetenth of the impact of the previous Conservative changes. The honest truth is that we need to go much further than this paper does. Immigration needs to come down a lot lot more. And under new leadership, the Conservative Party is taking a new approach. High Well, you can vote on this later if you’re so keen. High immigration has put pressure on housing. It has put pressure on public services, on social cohesion, and on the economy. Because mass low-wage, low-skll migration actually undermines our economy’s productivity and costs other taxpayers money because low-wage migrants consume services which cost the exjecker more than they pay in tax particularly where there are dependents. So we need to go much further and that is why later today the house will vote on two conservative proposals as amendments to the borders bill which I can see members opposite are very excited about the prospect of doing. The first of those amendments will create a binding annual cap on migration to be set and voted on democratically by this parliament. It will allow full democratic parliamentary control over those migration numbers, deliver complete transparency, and ensure immigration levels are drastically reduced. I can see the immigration minister talking enthusiastically from the front bench. I assume that means she’ll be supporting this measure. And madame deputy speaker, secondly, we will vote on an amendment to repeal the human rights act from all immigration matters, not just tinker, not just tinker with article 8. As the home secretary says, this will stop foreign criminals and others with no right to be here from abusing human rights laws in UK courts, including article three. So, Madam Deputy Speaker, I have a very simple question for the home secretary. Well, I’ll try anyway. If she is really serious about controlling immigration, will she vote later on today for the immigration cap and will she vote to repeal the Human Rights Act for all immigration matters? Home Secretary Madame Deputy Speaker, I must have missed a bit of the shadow home secretary’s response. the bit maybe at the beginning when he apologized to the house and to the country for his party’s policies that quadrupled net migration in the space of just four years. He tells us his concerns about the level of migration. It was his party that is responsible for that huge increase in net migration. And I must have missed the bit as well where he confessed that from the point at which he became an immigration minister in 2020 when all these policies were introduced to the point at which the shadow justice secretary finished being immigration minister in 2023. Net migration rose from 170,000 a year to 870,000 a year. But I must have missed that confession and that apology because that is what the shadow home secretary should have done. And frankly, until he admits his failure, until he apologizes for the damage that can the chaos that he and his party caused, frankly, no one is going to take seriously a single word he says. And he refers to these are changes that were made before the election. I would say we supported changes that were made by the right honorable member for Brainree, but he had to reverse some of the changes that the shadow home secretary made when he was an immigration minister. And as for for caps, the white paper provides four skilled uh migrs on lowskilled migration on the temporary shortage list. But his targets and caps are as meaningless as all the other ones that his party introduced when they were in government. Indeed, let me quote from the time of the Conservative government’s reforms that caused a lot of these problems. I especially thank the Home Secretary for removing the annual limits on work visas and on international students. I lobbied for both. That was the current leader of the opposition. So the idea that this will have anything to offer is like people who’ve burgled your house and then turn up the next day and offer to sell you a dog. If they are serious about making the changes, if they are serious about tackling small boats, frankly, they should vote for our counterterrorism powers to tackle the smuggler gangs that repeatedly he and the other right-wing parties have voted against. That’s not serious. This government is.