Reform UK Goes to War With Councils Over Pension Costs

Yes, transparency at last. Bring it on.

Brilliant, so overdue.

It's not just Council workers, it's the entire Civil Service.
Private companies haven't been able to afford Final salary schemes for 25 years or more, yet their taxes are used to fund ridiculous schemes for the Public Sector.

Many years ago in South Wales, they were going to merge and change local councils. The existing management was invited to apply for the newly created positions after the change. I know of at least 1, who was not shortlisted for the next batch ( I believe these were director or very senior positions, et). But suddenly they announced that there would have to be a 12-month preparation and handover, meaning that all existing management would remain in position for that period to oversee these changes. However due to their enhanced workload ( more dinners and gin and tonics to discuss these things) they would greatly enhance their salaries, apparently £000's and as part of that of course they would leave with renumeration packages based on their final salaries along with of course their Pensions greatly enhanced due to their corrupt manipulated actions. Yes, Local Authorities are the most corrupt creative accounting organisations after the Government and, as with the Government, they need a major change and restructuring.

🇬🇧 About time the public pension scam pots were stopped. Well done Reform 👏

It's about time these massive payoffs certainly over payment to these Fat Cats, and it must be illegal somewhere! It's not their money! Go for it, REFORM there is a chance that the UK will move forward!

Some of the se nior management salaries are extortionate and their pensions gobble up the money...the lower grades probably dont earn or receive huge pensions

I think you will fi nd its nearly 2 in every pound

Sounds like Dicky doesn't want to pay workers or retired workers. 😮

I’ve know for 40 years the council employee have been feeding they’re pension at the expense of the tax payer, what real pisses me is the arrogance of the council employees, when dealing with the general public, they’re attitude is undeniable aloof to the tax payer. All pedalling the Christian church rubbish along with other religions. Such hypercritical behaviour behind closed doors.
Providing them selves with free parking while making the locals pay exorbitantly high charges, waffling on about 15minutes towns while they won’t have to abide by these rules.

I worked with a woman whose dad was a councillor,he was coming up to retirement and had decided to reward himself with having a 50 foot canal boat built from scratch.... I stupidly worked hard graft jobs all my life and my final reward was..... sweet FA.....yeah they truly need investigating.... VOTE REFORM.....!!!!!!!

good a party doing what it promised to do

Well done most people would like to know where their council tax money is spent and invested.

No one should get a pension they haven't contributed to!

Every time that shower opens their mouths, they lose ever more support.

We need to scrap public pensions,Vote Reform .

Go get em Nigel

❤No local or central government employee, including civil servants, should be paid more than the prime minister, and senior deputies no more than cabinet ministers, thus saving another few billions a year. When they protest invite them to resign and try nd get a job in the private sector- not a hope for these jobsworths.

Good!

This has been happening ever since councillors started getting paid instead of the community running the councils for free as a civic duty, they only got expenses, (petrol costs) for mileage to and from the council work place, my father was one so I know how it used to be,

I cannot agree anymore

Or bin collection has gone from once a fortnight to once every three weeks, that's after a10% council tax hike, and their 40% pay hike, pay us more and get less is the order of the day!

Public sector workers that have retired need there pensions looked at and reduced,this has been going on for decades protecting gold plated payments no wonder there’s no money

It needs to happen because some get promoted just before retirement to bloat the pension.

Great idea keep pushing the council scams,on there outrageous pension bungs 😎👍

Let’s hope this happens to Lancashire County Council where Labour have been in control for too many years.

As with redundancy and severance payments, as well as pensions in the public sector, tax should be put on payments above the national average wage at a very high rate and as for redundancy and severance that tax should be 99% on amounts over the statutory government maximum. MP’s in particular should be levied the same taxes on all amounts received at least for the last 20 years.

The Dirty Boroughs. Exposed at last, bring it all back in house... stop subcontracting and stop Double Dipping.

Same in the US ,bankrupcy for many cities just down the road.

My village is dominated by blow ins and most of them are state employees or retired ones, locals are lucky to even get a council house these days and a doctor actually lives in one just above me!

The whole world has gone mad!

Or yes council love there pensions payed for by council tax while the whole of the uk struggle and can't afford a second pension because of the high council tax , how dare they charge people for there pensions who the fuck said they should even get this treat.

So I don't have a final salary pension. My wife in the private sector has a significantly better pension scheme than me, binus schemes, private health care and so on. I had a 12 year pay freeze under Tory rule. I had to apply for a job 10 years ago in the office as the very productive frontline team was being cut in the name of austerity. I am now still on less then my predecessor from 15 years ago and the frontline team are trying to trudge on with 20 year old equipment with no prospect of any investment. Now you lot want to cut whats left of any pension. Here's a thought, get bent go look after your fecking area yourselves. I bet you don't, most of you can't even pick up a piece of litter blowing round in the street in front of your house.

Back in the day, local authority pay was kind of crap, but you got a good pension, fair enough, then pay was increased and the pension stayed the same, not fair, i know what i would vote for if given the choice between getting my bins emptied and paying a bloated pension for a second rater, answers on a postcard.

But Nigel is still happy to take his EU pension because in his words he "is entitled to it" But see you are not bringing that up

Well done reform !!!!!

Thankyou

As at March 2024 the value of the LGPF was £391.5 billion an increase of £32.6 billion on 2023. Source Google. Awaiting for the 2025 figures with interest. No wonder there's no money left for even the basic services.

Ok, lets have a pension system for public servants (including MPs) that costs NO MORE than the average private sector scheme. Job done.

Doesn't an MP pension count as a public sector pension? Highly doubt they'd want to see their own pensions cut.

The Local Government Pensions Scheme was established by Act of Parliament and local authorities are required to use it by law for staff. So, unless Reform form a government and changes the law there is nothing their authorities can do. Remember the vast majority of council employees are pretty low paid and bear in mind that a lot of the staff have to have professional qualifications to do their work eg social workers, planners, public health officers. Only the senior staff are relatively well paid but the number of jobs over £100k is small compared to the total workforce and private industry tends to pay skilled and senior people more for the same level of responsibility. So, it's a bit chicken and egg in that the pension and some measure (though not guaranteed) of job security is the pay off for not getting higher headline pay rates.

As usual Tice is talking absolute nonsense as he does nt understand that the local government pension scheme is a nationally negotiated issue and not dealt with ocally. Concils are certainly not paying up to 30% on pensions it is less than half that which included the employee contribution.

I’m voting Reform.

Whole heartedly support this. Govt departments are next

Call it what it is corruption theft of tax payers money

Rice and farage lies and this is probably illegal, how about farage pensions for no work

The wasted money isn't unique to councils, albeit it's a huge amount nationwide. Government, all the water companies, energy companies, the BBC. Everything that takes public money is a cash cow for shareholders, directors, executives. They all have expense accounts, chauffeur driven or company cars, the perks are endless. It isn't any wonder that the average ordinary person is financially struggling.

We all know the councils are bent...

These civl servants live in a fantasy world.

All councillors are in it to feather their own nest whilst pretending to help the local people.

Excellent intervention