Reform would cut more than 68,000 civil service jobs

yeah, all the MP's and ex Tory defecting to reform are responsible for one of the worst hits on the UK in its history. Austerity and service cut backs and then brexit, along with farage. No provenance in running a country, only ruining a country. Every council they run, the costs are rocketing. reform will destroy the UK. They will strip mine wales. Remeber farage and his gassing jokes? They will bring back race hate on a scale you have never seen in the UK. His hit squads will be kicking doors in on people the wrong colour. Remember Krugers hateful comments on LGBTQ. Farage on gassing people, Gill fronting for the russians along with farage and 30p attacking disabled people and pochin racist rants.

These clowns are definitely not ready to govern anything except their shoe cabinets and even that sounds doubtful.

Why 68,000? Why not fire them all?

Perhaps Reform could tell everyone what services will no longer be provided. And before anyone says 'efficiencies', just remember every government since 1979 has claimed they will make efficiency savings and then gone on to pass legislation that requires Civil Servants to put into practice.

People forget that the Cons took us into Europe to outsource huge swathes of the public sector. Taking back control meant unavoidable civil service bloat.

All doubt removed now everyone? Tax free allowance on pay up to £20k (you’ll never see a penny of the £7.5k ‘gift’) and now a massive cull of civil servants. This is the FULL privatisation of EVERYTHING. Want your bins emptied? Get your credit card out. You’ll still be paying council tax - for nothing in return whatsoever.

All savings to be routed out to their billionaire paymasters and away from the people. Reform UK are a danger to life and do not plan to form a government for us.

Who runs the country when a general election is called and parliament is dissolved?

Whilst there is certainly an argument for reducing the Civil Service after the additional posts created after Covid, making such an ignorant and glib statement just shows how vacant the Reform policy book is. They do an enormous amount of work that without, democratic govt could just not operate. If they think the Trump model is a good one, then take a look at the consequences. A Reform UK Govt would just end up using consultants at far greater cost.

It's a bull in a china shop approach from Reform UK. Remember, this is a party of hypocrites that saw fit to spend thousands on an armour car for their multimillionaire cult leader Nigel Farage, including a Reform themed bar in Clacton-Upon-Sea, Essex, one of the most deprived constituencies in England. And what about Reform's youngest councillors , 19-year-old George Finch, who as interim leader of Warwickshire County Council, promised to end waste in his campaign , won , then suggested employing at the cost £190k annually to ratepayers political assistants to help him going against Reform's anti-waste platform. I would'nt trust Reform UK with my spit let alone allow them to run a council or country. They are like a predators, who use grooming technics to entice the apathetic. They seed and gestate hatred of minorities. Promise those from poor deprived areas that asylum seekers are the problem and they are the solution. It's a form of abuse in a way. The only ones who will benefit is Reform UK, where their voters lives and communities will not change but get worse.

Let's put this into perspective. Central government public sector headcount has increased from 2.3 million in 1991 to 4.0 million in 2025. A 74% increase in headcount and 1.7 million extra people being paid from the public purse. Getting rid of 68,000 jobs is 4% of the increase over that period, or less than 2% of the total headcount. It seems to me that those claiming this really rather modest ambition will lead to the collapse of our public services are getting a little carried away, particularly when the fact that the service delivered to the public by all these people is far worse in just about every area than it was in 1991.

The UK needs more civil servants not less, admittedly it needs them in the right places. This was a tory mistake as it created a temporary department and hired a heap load of Civil Servants into it that couldn't be easily returned back to their former departments because their places had been filled already. The wage packet does take a lot of money from the civil service, but this is not where most of the money is lost. Most of the money is lost through procurement and contracts. For a 5.00 mouse, it costs the Civil Service 20.00, for a change to someone's computer profile or reactivation it doesn't cost 10.00... or 30.00... or 50.00 it costs over 200.00 a pop, per change half the time and the more that is outsourced to private contractors, the less bang for buck we, the public, get. Sadly, the work is very much there and we very much need Civil Servants and Public sector workers to do it, because the private sector are too profit driven to do a job properly, just look at Royal Mail, Evri, Capita, G4S...