I think there are several tacks I would take if I was in their un-enviable shoes. First I would be very public with what I find. If my education budget has been destroyed by having to contribute the VAT on some private students school fees because I can't provide them education in state schools (despite spending on more teachers, assistants, and porta-cabins), I would be clearly communicating that to the public. All the mismanagement and unfunded impacts of central government policy out in the open. Then I would be implementing local DOGE projects, and again, very publicly tracking progress. When hard decisions need to be made, again, publicly explain the thinking and decision making, and potentially get a local referendum process going where when faced with "we can do this, but it will mean we can't do that" type situations the locals get to vote on what they actually want via town/village council referendums. Set direction, uncover the misadministration, get the communities engaged with what will effect them where possible.
So glad the worse than useless Tories have been kicked out from Kent County Council. I hope the new Reform team will scrap their predecessors' BLM-themed DEI courses.
I think first thing is investigate the establishment for everything corrupt going on , we know but we ourselves can’t prove it , and all found should be prosecuted and fast tracked , but then we would need quiet a few new judges as half of them are corrupt to , where do we begin ?
They need to deal with day to day operations as well as get to whats wrong. For the later, first thing I would do is have IT archive all available electronic communications and documents that used or are stored on council IT systems, second step is for Nigel to talk to Elon and ask for secure grok instances on prem at each council and guidance from DOGE on how best to analyse the archive for potentially illegal or corrupt documents and communications. This is the way forward for uncovering potential criminality be it fraud, corruption, politically driven misconduct or preferential treatment for contracts etc.
I think there are several tacks I would take if I was in their un-enviable shoes. First I would be very public with what I find. If my education budget has been destroyed by having to contribute the VAT on some private students school fees because I can't provide them education in state schools (despite spending on more teachers, assistants, and porta-cabins), I would be clearly communicating that to the public. All the mismanagement and unfunded impacts of central government policy out in the open. Then I would be implementing local DOGE projects, and again, very publicly tracking progress. When hard decisions need to be made, again, publicly explain the thinking and decision making, and potentially get a local referendum process going where when faced with "we can do this, but it will mean we can't do that" type situations the locals get to vote on what they actually want via town/village council referendums. Set direction, uncover the misadministration, get the communities engaged with what will effect them where possible.
I'd add pushing back on everything connected with net zero, C40 cities, LTNs etc.
So glad the worse than useless Tories have been kicked out from Kent County Council. I hope the new Reform team will scrap their predecessors' BLM-themed DEI courses.
I think first thing is investigate the establishment for everything corrupt going on , we know but we ourselves can’t prove it , and all found should be prosecuted and fast tracked , but then we would need quiet a few new judges as half of them are corrupt to , where do we begin ?
They need to deal with day to day operations as well as get to whats wrong. For the later, first thing I would do is have IT archive all available electronic communications and documents that used or are stored on council IT systems, second step is for Nigel to talk to Elon and ask for secure grok instances on prem at each council and guidance from DOGE on how best to analyse the archive for potentially illegal or corrupt documents and communications. This is the way forward for uncovering potential criminality be it fraud, corruption, politically driven misconduct or preferential treatment for contracts etc.
It can and must be done. Transparency, say what we do and do what we say must succeed.