Reform UK chairman speaks outside County Hall as KCC's 'DOGE' team 'ready to get to work'

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Reform UK’s chairman says the party’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) is ready to get to work at Kent County Council. Read more at KentOnline.

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00:00Now, we're not yet in government in Westminster. Obviously, that's the plan, and we want Nigel

00:03to be our Prime Minister with a reform majority, but we are in control of 10 councils. And so this

00:08Doge Task Force, they're a team of forensic auditors, of software engineers, and data

00:12analysts are consulting into councils like this to help them crunch the data, work out where the

00:18spending, where the money is going. And then, based on those reports, councillors such as Lyndon,

00:24who leads the council here, can make positive decisions to ensure, again, that the money is

00:29spent on things that people want and not spent on things people don't want. And I will say this

00:34too, one thing we've already seen is the way procurement is done, the way contracts are

00:38handed out at county level. It's completely broken. You've got multi-million pound contracts

00:44where there's only one bidder. If you were calling a taxi to take you to the airport, you'd probably

00:49call more than one taxi phone, wouldn't you? If you're getting your driveway done, you probably

00:53wouldn't just get one quote and shake their hand and send them the money. I'm afraid that is what

00:57is happening on large contracts, not even just small ones, large multi-million pound contracts.

01:01Similarly, we're seeing road maintenance contracts being handed out for 27 years. 27-year road

01:08maintenance contracts. I put it to you that even space exploration contracts to SpaceX are

01:13not 27 years long. So there's nothing about that that's remotely acceptable. We've got to

01:18ensure taxpayers' money is not being wasted. That's what reform promised to do. We've started

01:23that today.

01:24We've started that today.

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