Nigel Farage's Doge efficiency unit has uncovered how £100million worth of taxpayers' cash is being squandered on a "wasteland" council's "work from home" staff.
Zia Yusuf, who heads up "Doge" after serving as Farage's right-hand man, said his team had spent "several days" sniffing around the authority's offices.
The council is also said to be "point blank" refusing to let Reform staff trawl over its spending - sparking a furious attack from the former party chairman.
"Kent County Council spends £100million of taxpayer money per year on employees that 'work from home'," he blasted.
Zia Yusuf said his team had spent 'several days' sniffing around Kent County Council offices
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"Reform's Doge team spent several days there and the office was a wasteland. Nobody working.
"The CEO says these employees have monitoring software on their laptops but she does not 'actively check' whether their employees are using them.
"Kent Council is refusing point blank any analysis of the anonymised data. I wonder why? There is much, much more to reveal about just how much Kent Council is taking advantage of taxpayers."
William Yarwood, media campaign manager at the TaxPayers' Alliance, told GB News following Zia Yusuf's attack on Kent County Council: "Spending £100 million a year on staff who barely show up, with no proper checks, is a slap in the face for taxpayers.
"Kent Council must prove people are actually working - or stop wasting residents' money on empty offices and unchecked home working."
It follows a series of damning reveals by Zia Yusuf's efficiency drive in the last few days alone.
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Kent council staffers are 'refusing point blank any analysis of the anonymised data', Yusuf warned
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On Thursday night, Nigel Farage was warned he faces a fightback from council staff over Reform UK's proposals to clamp down on DEI training and cut waste.
Unison, the UK's largest trade union, claimed its membership jumped by 200 per cent in local authorities won by Reform UK at last month's Local Elections.
Its general-secretary Christina McAnea told Sky News: "Membership has surged in areas where Reform did well in the local elections.
"Unions exist to ensure no one can play fast and loose with the law. Any staff working for councils now controlled by Reform, and who aren't already a Unison member, should sign up so they can be protected too.
On Thursday night, Nigel Farage was warned he faces a fightback from council staff over Reform UK's proposals to clamp down on DEI
PAThat came after GB News was told Durham Country Council would move to end the statutory enforcement of DEI training and climate change modules for all 98 councillors.
Council leader Andrew Husband, who already welcomed the "positive" decision to rename portfolios to remove references to climate change and equality, told GB News: "These modules do not align with our objectives and having read the small print we can adapt training to satisfy 'minimum requirements' whilst staying compliant."
While just four days ago, Zia Yusuf made the bombshell announcement that Kent County Council is "using taxpayer money to pay for TV licenses for asylum seekers".
"Remember that next time you are asked to pay for yours," Yusuf added, while party chief whip Lee Anderson said: "You couldn't make this up."
GB News has approached Kent County Council for comment.
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