Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.

My name's Andrew Hunter-Murray and I'm here in the Eye studio with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen and Sabah Salman.

We are here to discuss the news of the last couple of weeks and because it's Christmas party season, we're having a Christmas party special.

I haven't told you all this, but we're going to be talking about your party. We're going to be talking about the Reform Party. And later on, we're going to be talking about various corporate parties who are buying each other. So I thought for a horrible moment, it was going to be like a normal Christmas party where everyone was going to fall out with each other. And oh, no, hang on. That is what it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, Sabah, welcome to page 94. This is your first time on the show. And you are the new Tim Minogue.

I am. It seems like I don't think anyone would see any difference at all.

You're Rotten Boroughs. I am Rotten Boroughs, me and a whole host of people behind the scenes who we cannot name.

I saw something really exciting recently because I know you do a little reform round-up section,

given that reform have just taken so many councils across the country in the local elections.

I saw a really exciting headline saying they've managed to cut 331 million pounds of expenditure in total so far.

Terrific news. How have they done it? Well, I think the answer is

rhetoric over reality. So, yes, reform has control of 10 local authorities. They have been

shedding councillors, left, right and centre, or right, should we say, since they started.

And they've lost about 40 and Rottenboroughs has indeed

on behalf of the nation been keeping an eye on how many and why. The war on waste that you mentioned,

so there's £331 million saving efficiency, that is their big mantra nationally and obviously

in local government they've taken that upon themselves

to prove to Nigel that it can be done when you actually drill down this is complete

goth basically to put it in technical terms in the current issue we mention Kent and Kent

is fascinating because it's the flagship borough the person in charge is is Lyndon Kem Karan, who's a very firm leader,

and she's very big on taking Nigel's word to the absolute maximum.

So she's been doing her war on ways, and she's claiming she's saving tens of millions.

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