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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has dominated headlines during President Donald Trump’s 2nd term. Nigel Farage, the Reform UK enactment person who initiated Britain’s departure from the European Union, has been taking notes.
Farage posted a societal media video connected Tuesday proclaiming, "Britain needs its ain DOGE!" He said it was the "first successful a series" of videos that volition item the misuse of British payer money.
"Do you ever wonderment wherever your taxes go, whether your wealth is being spent properly?" Farage asked. "Well, person a look astatine what’s travel crossed my desk. Oh, you’ll similar this. The biology interaction of filmmaking utilizing Star Wars to amended assemblage sustainability practices. No, I’m not adjacent making it up – implicit £200,000. Try this. The taste legacies of the British Empire, classical music’s assemblage past 1750-1900 – £1.2 cardinal funded by U.K. Research and Innovation, a non-departmental authorities body."
Farage said Elon Musk’s DOGE investigations inspired him to reevaluate wherever British payer wealth is going. Farage said programs, similar studying the interaction of Star Wars connected the environment, are a discarded of national funds and support workers "in jobs who don’t merit them."
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"When you spot what they’re doing successful America, bash you get the feeling we ought to beryllium doing it here? This is each a implicit discarded of your payer money. It’s keeping radical successful jobs who don’t merit to person them."
In December 2024, The Times of London archetypal reported Musk was considering a $100 cardinal donation to Farage's Reform UK Party. A photograph astatine Mar-a-Lago of Musk, Farage and Nick Candy, the party’s treasurer, released by Reform UK confirmed talks were underway.
On Jan. 5, Musk created a rift erstwhile helium advocated for the merchandise of Tommy Robinson, a British governmental fig arguable for his views connected escaped speech. Robinson, whose existent sanction is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is imprisoned for releasing a documentary with defamatory comments astir a Syrian refugee.
Farage was speedy to region himself from Musk’s presumption connected Robinson, maintaining that "Tommy Robinson is not close for Reform." In response, Musk called for a caller person of Reform, saying Farage "doesn’t person what it takes."
Despite the societal media tension, Farage was 1 of respective European governmental leaders astatine Trump’s inauguration successful January. He joined Éric Zemmour of France, Tom Van Grieken of Belgium and erstwhile Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki successful Washington, D.C.
Farage's station aligns with the increasing "woke waste" question successful the United Kingdom, a radical advocating for authorities transparency and a DOGE of their own. Since the extremity of 2024, The Procurement Files has been searching done implicit 300,000 contracts connected the United Kingdom’s nationalist authorities database to amusement Brits wherever their payer wealth is going.
Operating overmuch similar DOGE’s X account, The Procurement Files searches the government’s database to uncover wasteful spending. Much similar we’ve seen play retired with Musk cutting DEI and USAID spending, galore posts spotlight spending connected sustainability initiatives and planetary humanitarian aid.
One station revealed U.K. taxpayers spent £50,000 to survey "shrimp wellness successful Bangladesh." Another station highlighted a £15.5 cardinal U.K. concern successful a "Climate Smart Jobs Programme successful Uganda."
Charlotte Gill, who runs DOGE UK connected societal media, is moving alongside The Procurement Files to uncover authorities discarded and misuse of payer money. Trump granted Musk the enforcement authorization to analyse and instrumentality the DOGE docket to "maximize governmental ratio and productivity." Gill has created an online assemblage successful the lack of an authoritative DOGE UK.
When Mete Coban, the lawman politician of London for situation and energy, announced a programme giving distant 70,000 trees, Gill took her vexation to societal media.
The United Kingdom projected authorities spending regulations successful November 2024. With a extremity of redeeming £1.2 cardinal by 2026, the caller program increases authorities oversight to chopped unnecessary spending.
"We’re taking contiguous enactment to halt each non-essential authorities consultancy walk successful 2024-25 and halve authorities spending connected consultancy successful aboriginal years, redeeming the payer implicit £1.2 cardinal by 2026," Georgia Gould, parliamentary caput astatine the Cabinet Office, announced successful November. "It comes alongside our enactment to make a strategical program to marque the Civil Service much businesslike and effective, with bold measures to amended skills and harness integer technology."
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer referenced Trump’s long-standing committedness to "draining the swamp" during a code promising "change and reform" for the United Kingdom successful December 2024.
"I don’t deliberation there’s a swamp to beryllium drained here, but I bash deliberation excessively galore radical successful Whitehall are comfy successful the tepid bath of managed decline," Starmer said.
DOGE UK, Farage and Starmer did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.
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