Reform UK bringt Teenager für wichtige öffentliche Dienste verantwortlich
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/05/nigel-farage-reform-uk-teenage-councillors-vital-public-services
Von Wagamaga
Reform UK bringt Teenager für wichtige öffentliche Dienste verantwortlich
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/05/nigel-farage-reform-uk-teenage-councillors-vital-public-services
Von Wagamaga
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Reform UK’s local election wins have seen teenagers left in charge of vital public services, including a 19-year-old who is overseeing children and family services while still at university.
Two months on from the elections in which Nigel Farage’s party took overall control of 10 councils, concerns have been raised about the experience of candidates who have been appointed to roles with wide-ranging responsibility.
At Leicestershire county council, Reform councillor Charles Pugsley, 19, has been made the cabinet member for children and family services.
Pugsley’s elevation has caused particular concern, as has that of Joseph Boam, a 22-year-old who has been made the deputy council leader and handed the adult social care portfolio, despite having previously expressed the view that “depression isn’t real”.
Both are defenders of a Reform policy that would block the council from flying community emblems such as the Pride and disabled people’s flags over council property.
More than 100 social workers and other employees at the council have now signed a letter condemning the policy, which they allege “promotes exclusion and marginalisation”.
According to the anti-extremism campaign group, Hope Not Hate, an account appearing to belong to Boam had frequently retweeted and posted apparent praise for the misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate from a now deleted social media account.
I can’t explain it, but young Right Wingers all have _that_ look to them
A preview of the national government in 2029 if the Farage fans on this sub get their way.
Of course not everyone voted for them but the majority did. You reap what you sow.
I know I bang on about youth engagement in politics but i didnt mean hiring the inbetweeners
Are they actually like, any good? Yeah probably lacking experience but what if they are doing a decent and competent job?
I guess children are easier for them to manipulate and control, like Little Balls or whoever in the US.
I don’t like Reform but if they were Greens councillors, the same people complaining would be ecstatic about it.
Well after decades of having pensioners in charge of vital public services (including multiple members of the current cabinet), I guess we’ll see if young people manage to fuck things up as badly..
>Including a 19 year old who has been put in charge of children’s and family services
When I was 22 I got put in position of responsibility over a surveying department at a fluorite mine. I thought I was “the guy” and knew better than everyone else because of my masters degree and how young I was for the job. Turns out I absolutely didn’t. I was a naive idiot who needed at least another 8 years of development in a junior role. I made A LOT of f*ck ups, that cost the business time and money.
The chance to be in a position of real power and responsibility *absolutely* goes to your head when you’re that young.
But more importantly, what does a 19 year old boy know about the graft, responsibility and sacrifice for caring for families and children.
Er, didn’t the public vote for them, so this is what happens when you vote for v young immature people into positions of responsibility. Thankfully they’ll have a dept under them to steer them, as they probably do whoever was in the role.
These poor kids are just puppets and are going to be pushed off the bridge the moment things go south
Why do I feel that if this had been a youngin from labour that it would be celebrated? lol
But the guardian liked it when a 20 year old who had only worked in a fish and chip shop became the youngest MP. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/09/mhairi-black-interview
of course one of them is a landlord lmao, daddy must’ve bought them a couple of properties for the serfs to reside in…suppose it beats unemployment…
It’s not a *terrible* idea to have younger people in charge of things, as they will have different priorities to the old guard wrt how money should be spent. Arguably more money should be spent on the younger generations anyway, otherwise you end up with a massively top heavy society in terms of wealth and assets (see: UK)
But that’s only in theory. In practice, this will not go well 😂
They’ll have 5 years old lawnmowering the ‘Reform HQ’ headquarters soon enough.
In all seriousness. Bunch of cunts.
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t real life, what a fucking shit show
I thought labour voters were all for including younger people, like dropping the voting age to 16, what changed?
Idk – vote clowns expect a circus. Zero sympathy for the people who either actively voted them in or were too apathetic to care
(I do have sympathy for those who voted for other parties).
The comments here why I want Reform to win big next election. Snobbery and just complete nastiness.
I thought people wanted young people on government….
What the fuck is wrong with world pllolitics at the moment? There isnt a facepalm emoji big enough!
First its people are too white for certain jobs and now its people are not the right age. What discrimination is next Guardian?
Because the old fogies running the country have done such a stellar job in the last two decades. /s
I don’t even think you should be allowed to vote until 25, let alone run the bloody place..
Maybe it’s good if they do this cos if they mess it up it just make them less likely to get elected
This is one of the cases where it gets infinitely worse when you take the time to read the article.
> 19, oversees just over 400m in spending
> referred to depression as not being real
> reposted Andrew Tate
> in response to the criticism, they called it fake news
Unintelligent as well as unqualified. Yey democracy!
The Guardian would only be 100% positive if it was teenagers on the left in charge.
I’ve been following this drama. Several jobs of the council remain unfilled, including roads and transport, something reform campaigned on (fixing the potholes).
This spotty incel has done nothing other than try to get the pride flags taken down and then cried via Fromage to the press when they said it would have to go to a vote.