Back on the 15th May Councillor Dan Harrison became Reform UK's first council leader, saying of his council, Leicestershire County Council "We're now looking at the cost, the efficiency, well then have money for front line (services) but we'll also be able to cut council tax."
Mr Harrison was so proud of his statement that his local Reform UK branch shared the story, it's still sat on their social page now.
A constant message of Reform UK's election campaign was that council tax cuts could be secured through eradicating wastefulness and getting rid of environmental initiatives.
Obviously, anyone who understands the decade of financial challenges that councils have been under and huge demographic changes that are still taking place knows that such an assertion is balderdash, but dissatisfaction with the political establishment ran so deep that at the last county council elections voters returned Reform UK in unprecedented numbers.
However, things are starting to unravel quickly.
The Financial Times are now reporting that Reform UK's flagship council, Kent County Council, are planning on increasing council tax next year with one cabinet member claiming "Everyone thought we'd come in and there were going to the these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren't."
No one, who has an understanding of local government finance thinks that though.
Reform UK should have known better, and they are smart enough to have known better. One can only conclude that they did know better but deliberately chose to tell another tale.
No one with an ounce of understanding expects council tax to be frozen in Leicestershire next year either, the pressures and the budgets do not allow it.
But as long as voters are willing to listen to policies without a shred of evidence backing them up, then politicians will continue to offer them.