Thread: REFORM UK.

Reform councils ‘save taxpayers £40m’ by scrapping net zero

Party’s leaders say they have also cut more than £50m of wasteful costs in other areas during first 100 days in power

Daniel Martin
Deputy Political Editor
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Reform UK, Nigel Farage, Net Zero, Local councils
07 August 2025 3:14pm BST


Taxpayers are to save more than £40m after councils led by Reform UK scrapped net-zero policies, the party has claimed.

In Reform’s first 100 days of power, the party’s leaders say they have also cut more than £50m of wasteful costs in other areas.

Costs axed by the party include scrapping upgrades of council cars to electric vehicles, and reducing spending on solar panels.

Reform also says it has cracked down on overcrowded housing for asylum seekers, and removed Pride flags from town halls.

Nigel Farage’s party swept to victory in 10 councils in May, taking eight from the Conservatives and two from Labour.

He said his councils’ achievements showed that Reform was fulfilling its election promises, adding: “On May 1, we showed that if you vote Reform, you get Reform.

“In the 100 days since, Reform UK councils across Britain are proving they’re the change we promised and already delivering on their manifesto commitments.

“From rolling back the devastating net zero agenda on a local level to cutting wasteful spending, Reform councils are standing up for the priorities of local people, not the whims of bureaucrats or the entrenched elite.”


Since last May, Reform has prioritised reductions in spending on net zero. Staffordshire county council has prevented 63 farms owned by the authority from being used for solar, wind or battery farms, meaning they will continue to produce food.

Durham county council was the first British council to scrap its “net-zero emergency declaration”, instead declaring a care emergency to recognise the escalating crisis in children’s social care and special educational needs provision.

A Reform cost-cutting unit sent into Kent county council has recommended scrapping plans to modify council-owned property to make it compatible with net-zero obligations, saying £32m over four years.

It also recommended scrapping the net-zero transitioning of the council’s vehicles to electric vehicles, saving a further £7.5m by 2030.

Leicestershire county council has redirected £2m from its “net-zero carbon reserve” towards flooding protection and drainage work. Meanwhile, West Northamptonshire council removed net zero targets in its area.

More widely, Reform said it had saved taxpayers’ money in other areas of council spending. Durham plans to make £4.2m in savings by scrapping a variety of capital projects, including not upgrading the council’s vehicle fleet to electric and cancelling a number of solar-power projects. The council will also scrap a new heat pump at its county hall.

Kent has reduced the level of debt by £16m, saving thousands in interest payments alone. It has also cancelled plans to move staff into a neighbouring building, saving more than £14bn.


Derbyshire has made £6,000 a day of savings in councillor allowances in the first three weeks and delayed a pay strategy review for two years, saving millions of pounds.

Staffordshire stopped the rollout of electric vehicle charging in areas where there is little customer demand, saving the taxpayer £4.5m.

In Nottinghamshire, a cap has been placed on allowances to save £112,000 a year; while Lincolnshire has started looking at options to save at least £25m by streamlining and modernising services. And West Northamptonshire has rolled out a new software licensing agreement with Microsoft, saving £1m over three years.

In other changes, Durham has demanded the council apply for planning permission when converting properties into homes in multiple occupation to stop unchecked migrants coming in.

West Northamptonshire has also cracked down on illegal houses of multiple occupancy, and landlords in designated areas must now apply for a licence or face unlimited fines or civil penalties up to £30,000. The council will conduct physical inspections to ensure properties meet standards.

who can argue with that.

Originally Posted by taxexile

who can argue with that.

There is no argument unless you are blinded by some far left illogical philosophy hell bent on the destruction of the UK.

My fear is that it is too little too late.

Mass deportations are needed!!

^^From The Telegraph. Again




"the party’s leaders say"

save more than £40m after councils led by Reform UK scrapped net-zero policies, the party has claimed.

oh yes.



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Originally Posted by Joe 90

Mass deportations are needed!!

Yeah, Zambia looks about right for you.

Gaza strip for tax.

Planet Zorg for spamdeath.

Yet amazingly peeps who don't live near these areas or even in the same country and don't pay taxes there feel they have justification for slagging off the indigenous population about their security concerns.

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Yet amazingly peeps who don't live near these areas or even in the same country and don't pay taxes there feel they have justification for slagging off the indigenous population about their security concerns.

<br><br>Likewise amazing that people who don't live in Asia post in the debating section of an Asian forum about matters in England and expects those who lives outside England to shut up. <br>Dumbfuck!

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Yet amazingly peeps who don't live near these areas or even in the same country and don't pay taxes there feel they have justification for slagging off the indigenous population about their security concerns.

"Indigenous population", so you're a good Breton speaker then are you?

Fucking idiot. Don't use ChatGPT to write your posts.

Dead right.

He probably thinks 'indigenous' is a shade of blue.

Anyway...

Wouldn't it be ironic if he did one of those ancestry DNA tests and it told him he's 40% Albanian and 30% Bulgarian.

Dozens more marches today around the UK!

Doubt they will make the news via the mainstream media.

I know of at least 8 boat people hotels within a 10 mile radius of where I live all housing single fighting age Muslim men and my taxes are paying for their accommodation, health care, phones, meals, clothing, pocket money while they moonlight as delivery/taxi drivers.

Send them back!

Joe, why do you keep posting about migrants on threads (two now) about the Reform UK party? Surely Reform UK is not a one trick pony party!

Originally Posted by Joe 90

I know of at least 8 boat people hotels within a 10 mile radius of where I live

Slightly more than 400 such hotels under the Tories.

Cut to slightly more than 200 now.

It's being addressed but it takes time.

Which is quite inconvenient for you, really.

I mean, a problem created by disinterested centre right cvnts, being solved by the Labour party.

So, the answer is to vote for further to the right cvnts with an even more disjointed sense of shame than Bojo.

What a joke.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Which is quite inconvenient for you, really.

I mean, a problem created by disinterested centre right cvnts, being solved by the Labour party.

What a joke.

So what are Labour doing Sympl?, there is no more new Migrant Hotels? over 110,000 crossed since they have taken power - how are they solving. You are always full of observations but never off any explanations.

Originally Posted by Molle

When the minority of the people who has 99 donuts has succeeded in convincing the majority of the people who has 1 donut that the immigrants who has 0 donuts are here to steal it from them...

You might wanna try a little proofreading there, buddy.

It’s second hand stuff anyway.

All he and TG have.

Maybe they had an original idea once, but then somebody else went and said it.

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