Nigel Farage’s “Doge” unit has revealed that Kent taxpayers spent thousands of pounds paying for illegal migrants to have TV licences and trips to the cinema.
In a damning dossier compiled by Reform UK’s waste-buster squad, Kent County Council spent at least £1,000 on footing the £174.50 bill for small boat arrivals to watch the BBC in 2022.
Asylum seekers were also taken on trampolining, bowling and cinema trips across the Garden of England.
Overall costs, which included spending money at JD Sports and PC World, stood at £24,000.
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“There is also: (32Q) Non-Placement Spend Asylum 18+ (32P) Rented Asylum 16-17.
“Money is spent and assigned to those ‘Service Name’ and ‘Service Type’.
“It is mostly billed to the ‘Children, Young People & Education’ directorate regardless of the service name/type.”
GB News also recently revealed how Kent County Council had been using taxpayers’ cash to rent office space almost 200 miles away in Brussels.
Reform Cllr Linden Kemkaran (front centre), leader of the Reform UK Kent County Council group, with the Reform UK councillors elected to Kent County Council,PA
Reform UK won Kent County Council from the Tories in the 2025 Local Elections, picking up 57 out of 81 seats.
Yusuf, who quit as Reform UK’s chairman last week before returning to the fold 48 hours later, launched Reform’s “Doge” unit at Kent’s County Hall in Maidstone last week.
Arron Banks, one of the so-called “Bad Boys of Brexit”, will join Yusuf and Fried as an adviser to the “Doge” team.
Yusuf has also met with council chiefs in West Northamptonshire, later pledging all Reform-run local authorities will face a major financial inspection.
