Wherever neoliberalism is involved the system collapses Local-authority auditing was privatised by the Tories in 2014, and more than a decade later, the system of local authority audit has almost entirely collapsed as a consequence. nearly 1,000 audit opinions outstanding by 2023

WILL BURNHAM'S DEVOLUTION WORK?

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Central government has never felt more out of touch with reality. If our farmers can’t grow food what will we eat? And if our children can’t learn and patients get ill because their hospitals are too hot, how can we live as normal?

Climate change has never been more visible than in 2026. We’ve had serious flooding in the winter, heat waves since May and drought and wildfires. Yet central government is on about immigration and fiscal rules. I’m not hearing anything about adaptations to schools and hospitals to help cope

Well done Rayner Burnham and Labour you fucking idiots Here we are experiencing the climate crises with full on blistering heatwaves crops going without water and you approve another fucking datacenter Thick as fuck no joined up thinking whatsoever www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy

Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes

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SAME OLD RACIST TORY PARTY A former neo-Nazi activist with convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP has been selected as a Conservative candidate for a local election in Somerset. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

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Climate change could make homes across Britain uninsurable, and the government has no plan for what happens next. Floods, heat waves, droughts, wildfires and rising sea levels are increasing insurance claims, and as premiums rise, some risks will become too great for private insurers to accept

Two tier reporting from our fucking corrupt media

UK TV news gave the Edinburgh terror attack on five Muslim men just 160 minutes of coverage. A comparable antisemitic attack in London two months earlier received 1,107 minutes, according to new data from the Centre for Media Monitoring (CfMM), an independent media monitoring project based in London

If you have read or heard propaganda shit from our MSM about the Invasion of "immigrants" into the Spanish colony of Cueta (which is in Morocco by the way) don't be fooled Here is a video of Netanyahu claiming credit for it Yes It was the Fucking Zionists www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk-n...

Cenk Has The RECEIPTS About The Migrant Surge

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Do you remember all the hype about the SpaceX share offering and how maybe 100,000 people in the UK struggled to buy shares on launch day? Oh Dear Oh Dear Oh Dear

Under the Conservatives, the chairman of Fujitsu UK, the company whose Horizon software destroyed the sub-postmasters, gave over £370,000 to the party and was appointed to the UK Health Security Agency’s advisory board. The obvious conflict did not disqualify him.

A seat in the Lords is not just an honour. It is a position inside the architecture, with access to committees, appointment processes, and the fast-track channels through which public money flows.

A political donor is 200 times more likely to receive a peerage than an ordinary party member, and 20,000 times more likely than the average voter. Money does not formally buy a seat in the Lords, but this is not a fucking coincidence it's corruption

You think you live in a democracy but you do not! Between 2013 and 2023, 68 of the 284 peers nominated by party leaders were political donors, giving a combined £58 million. Fifteen of sixteen Conservative Party treasurers received peerages after donating £3 million or more.

Across Britain’s quango state, hundreds of individuals hold multiple public appointments at once, and there is no central register showing how many also sit in firms that bid for, advise on, or benefit from public contracts. Parliament does not see the full map because no official map exists. FFS

Anne Baldock serves as a non-executive director of Kier Group, which earns over ninety per cent of its revenue from public sector clients and holds around £2.4 billion in HS2 receipts, while simultaneously serving as Senior Independent Director of East West Railway Company

This is What Corruption Looks Like in The UK Lord Allen of Kensington chairs Balfour Beatty, recipient of approximately £5 billion in HS2 contracts, while simultaneously sitting in the House of Lords voting on transport legislation. FFS it's so blatant

Cathryn Ross was chief executive of Ofwat, the regulator that sets water company prices and oversees their financial performance. Under its watch, companies paid out billions in dividends while sewage infrastructure went unimproved,

Beth West was HS2’s commercial director from 2012 to 2017, overseeing the procurement framework that determined which contractors received billions in public money.

A chart of corruption and government failure

of the 438 quangos described in my previous post, someone decides who sits on the boards, who chairs the committees, & approves the contracts. Look at who those people are and a pattern is visible. The same names rotate between the bodies that spend public money and the companies that receive it.

Seema Misra ran the post office in West Byfleet. In 2008, she was suspended over a £74,000 shortfall that did not exist. On 11 November 2010, she was sentenced to fifteen months in prison. She was eight weeks pregnant. She served four and a half months. Her conviction was overturned in 2021.

Blair created 92 quangos, more than any other Prime Minister. Cameron’s 2010 “bonfire of the quangos” abolished 192, but most functions quietly migrated into new bodies (spending still increased). Starmer created 27 since July 2024. One of them, ironically, is called the Office for Value for Money.

At a time when taxes are at all-time highs and public services are crumbling, a third of all public spending is flowing through bodies most people have never heard of, run by people they cannot vote out, under structures Parliament struggles to follow. Half a million people work for these bodies.

£391 billion a year, is not spent by government departments. It is spent by 438 separate publicly funded bodies that ministers cannot direct, Parliament cannot easily scrutinise, and voters cannot remove. Within these 438 bodies, 315 people are paid more than the Prime Minister.

HS2 The first question is whether criminal fraud occurred inside the project. The Serious Fraud Office has received statements from former HS2 Ltd employees alleging exactly that. Fraud, bribery, document shredding, cost figures manipulated to ensure money kept flowing. still no charges.

No interest rate rise for now, but three of the nine members wanted an increase, apparently thinking that inflation caused by oil price increases, in turn caused by war, represent excess demand in the UK economy that they must stamp out with an interest rate rise, when the exact opposite is true:

Andy Burnham keeps on talking about opportunities for young people whilst the Bank of England is deliberately holding interest rates high with the intention of creating unemployment. We do not have unemployment by chance in the UK; we have it deliberately.