It’s the precursor to privatisation of Council Service
Reform Uk Leader Nigel Farage has expressed his unrequited admiration for Margaret Thatcher on many occasions and as people know right across Northumberland she was the ‘queen’ of privatisation and offshoring
Northumberland’s older generation will remember it well and thousands of its younger families are still suffering through the outcomes particularly from offshoring manufacturing jobs abroad.
Farage visited Morpeth in Northumberland this week and spoke about the need to set up a DOGE in the County reminiscent of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency as they like Thatcher thought every penny spent on the public sector is a penny too much.
Through his US DOGE, Elon Musk has severed thousands from its public services workforce and we expect if they get a chance Reform UK will copy that trend across Northumberland where decently paid secure jobs are in relatively short supply.
Private companies working in the public sector are well known for driving the sectors wages down in order to keep profit margins for their shareholders up as high as they can get and it's a pity that the euphoria surrounding an organisation that's hell bent on dragging families back into almost slave conditions through Reforms wish to con people into removing the the UK from the protection of the ECHR and the improving workers conditions being brought in by Labour is driven by the slow rate in which change can be managed by Government following 14 years of damage to the Local government and public services industries by the Tories.
Reform is run by Merchant Bankers and it's difficult for the private sector to get a hold of a talented workforce which can compete for public sector work. Reforms DOGE plans would ‘gift’ private companies access to talented and skilled workforces housed in the huge local authorities like Northumberland County Council. That access would severely threaten the economic stability of the County as it would create no new jobs, simply jobs on lower wages.
NOTES
https://www.thepoke.com/2025/04/14/nigel-farage-wants-doge-style-body-for-every-council/
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1356494405789645
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ZdjNe7xzM
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