Im The Parrot

financial freedom will never be achieved with one eye on the future but as a result of having both eyes and both ears on understanding + adapting 2 the present

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

I recall someone once said:
'education might make one a living but having a following on social media will make one a fortune'
stonking wisdom IF one were 2 open ones eyes + think about it🤔
so just remember folks:
REAL FRIENDS DON'T EXIST on investment blogs 🤑
#AIM #KnowTheGame

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

irrespective of the wrongful doing of this company employing and/or exploiting this woman, the outcome of the employment tribunal proves beyond any reasonable doubt what I said last week >
this country is completely f*cked !!

[James Glancy @jaglancy]

'Migrant with no right to work in Britain wins employment case'.

In any normal country this would read. 'Migrant caught illegally working deported and banned from Britain'.

https://t.co/KRvnBjH2XT

[Cockney Rebel @RebelHQ]

Okay, so I think the public need to understand a little about 'Government Borrowing'.

Rather like people with credit cards, buying stuff is very easy when you put it on tick. On your credit card, you have a minimum payment to make or you will get charged interest on interest and your balance will keep rising despite your payments.

When a government borrows money on the gilt market it is exactly the same, and as a country we are paying interest on interest and the balance is rising.

You may think that's not your problem, you aren't borrowing the money - but you are! Government borrow but the taxpayer pays the bill, and the interest, because they borrow it on your behalf. So the more they borrow, the higher your taxes go.

So when you hear the Laura Kuenssbergs of this world asking politicians if they will borrow more or tax more, there is only one answer - 'tax more'. Because they either spend today and tax you today or they spend today and tax you tomorrow, even more.

Governments don't have money, it is your money they are spending and you are paying the bill.

Remember that when MPs tell you they are giving you 'FREE' Breakfast Clubs, 'FREE' Child Care, FREE Child Benefit, 'FREE' anything! It's not free - you are paying for it today, or tomorrow.

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

@GauciReports protect UK values under 'our common flag'
yes Keir BUT you appear to have forgotten what OUR flag actually looks like !
as a reminder UK flag looks like this 🇬🇧
it's definitely NOT this 🇵🇸
NOR this 🇮🇱
NOR this 🇮🇷
NOR any other foreign flag you allow to be waved on OUR STREETS🤬

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

#Scotland #MSP #Politics country is f*cked !!
the judge that approved the legalities of a foreigner on a TEMP STUDENT VISA being eligible to vote in our elections never mind stand as a parliamentary misister should be thrown out and barred from the bar 🤬
https://t.co/IBm19jCce4

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

@videodawn 2 things that buggered the patch as we know it
engineers and o-rings 🤣
I just paid 99 pence towards your retirement fund so it better be worth the read 🤑

[SOI media 🇬🇧 @MediaSOI]

A starving asylum seeker finds a magic lamp on the beach after arriving in Dover, he rubs it and summons a good fairy who grants him 3 wishes.

The Asylum seeker says "I'm hungry." (POW) a huge banquet appears!

He then says "Now I want a nice house." (POW) a big mansion with a swimming pool appears.

He then says"I want to be British." (POW) everything vanishes! He asks
"Where has everything gone?" the fairy says "You're British now mate, you're entitled to nothing!."

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

#ukgov #energysecurity #rbd
just what everyone wants 🤔
an increase in 'domestic' gas production to mine bitcoin rather than heat old folks homes 🤣
https://t.co/z9XFEUsfJ0

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

@pijoe1212 @FordRSOC 1987 moonstone blue 31,974 miles all original with raft of documented history to match and its in mint condition.
its been stored unused and under cover for last 3 years.
you will find full details in a few days once uploaded here : https://t.co/L0cf5cFyDU
get bidding 🤑

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

@FordRSOC #RSCosworth
very low mileage all original mint RS Cosworth coming under the hammer in 2 weeks time 😮
feel free to share far and wide 👍
https://t.co/DOs1BwrecI

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

@pijoe1212 @FordRSOC 1987 moonstone blue 31,974 miles all original with raft of documented history to match and its in mint condition.
been stored unused and under cover for last 3 years. you will find full details in a few days once uploaded here :
https://t.co/oFnLDXVpFB
get bidding 🤑

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

@FordRSOC #RSCosworth
very low mileage all original mint RS Cosworth coming under the hammer in 2 weeks time 😮
feel free to share far and wide 👍
https://t.co/DOs1BwrecI

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

@pijoe1212 imaging during current cost of living crises having to ask the paying public to consume more electricity during the coming summer months as the solution against crashing / damaging the grid 🤡
Major Clipton once said:
MADNESS, BLOODY MADNESS !!
I have to wholeheartedly agree 🤣

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

BRILLIANT 🤣🤣🤣

[Benonwine @benonwine]

This is your typical Green Voter going out for dinner.

The Restaurant manager had the best way to handle them! 🤣👏👌

[Josh Hunt @iAmJoshHunt]

The British government has wasted more money on failed projects than some countries spend building their entire infrastructure.

After hearing about the cancellation of the Stonehenge Tunnel project, yet it still racking up £179 million in cost, I wanted to look at other projects and costs to see what the picture looks like this century.

Every number here comes from official reports, the National Audit Office, parliamentary committees, and ministers' own admissions.

Let me show you where your money has gone.

HS2 was sold to the country as a £37.5 billion high speed rail network connecting London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Leeds. The first phase was supposed to open this year. In 2026.

Here's where it actually is.

After six years of construction and £46 billion spent, tunnels have been bored, earth has been moved, viaducts have been built. But there is no railway. Not a single metre of track. The legs to Manchester and Leeds have been cancelled entirely. What's left is a line from London to Birmingham with no confirmed opening date, no confirmed final cost, and estimates so unstable that Parliament's own Public Accounts Committee has warned the cash cost of Phase 1 alone could reach £80 billion. Some industry forecasts put it above £100 billion.

The Transport Secretary stood in Parliament last year and called it "an appalling mess." She said billions had been wasted on scope changes, ineffective contracts, and bad management. Fraud allegations have since emerged in the supply chain.

Three times the original price. A fraction of what was promised. And still years from completion.

But HS2 is just one example.

The NHS National Programme for IT was supposed to create a unified electronic health record for every patient in England. Launched in 2002 with a budget of £6 billion. Abandoned in 2011 with the Public Accounts Committee putting the expected cost at £12.4 billion. It delivered a fraction of its promised benefits. Only 13 out of 169 hospital trusts received the systems they were meant to get. Then one of the contractors sued the government and won a settlement of nearly half a billion pounds. On top.

During Covid, the government threw billions out the door with almost no checks. The Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner's final report, published December 2025, found that fraud and error across pandemic support schemes cost taxpayers £10.9 billion. How much has been recovered? £1.8 billion. The Commissioner's words, not mine. The previous government "left the front door open to fraud." Bounce Back Loans were rolled out in under two weeks with no independent verification. PPE contracts were handed to companies with no track record. Defective gowns, masks, and visors weren't inspected for two years. By the time anyone checked, the money was gone.

Universal Credit was supposed to simplify the benefits system. The original programme was budgeted at around £2 billion. The National Audit Office has flagged massive overruns repeatedly as the project ballooned in scope and complexity. Total costs have run many times higher than planned. Nobody was fired.

The smart meter rollout was supposed to be finished by 2020. It wasn't. Costs have hit £13.5 billion. The programme has been dogged by meters losing functionality, missed deadlines, and a failure to deliver the energy savings that justified the whole thing in the first place.

One many of you will be familiar with. The Post Office spent £600 million on a computer system called Horizon. It was fundamentally flawed. Its defects led to more than 900 wrongful convictions. Sub-postmasters lost their homes. Their businesses. Their families. At least 13 people took their own lives. Compensation has now reached £1.4 billion and is expected to hit £2 billion. Fujitsu, the company that built the system, has not paid a single penny toward that bill. It is still collecting government contracts.

The Fire Control project. £469 million. Seven years. An attempt to modernise fire service control rooms. Scrapped. Nothing delivered. What a waste.

The electronic tagging programme. Five years late. Tens of millions spent. Abandoned. They ended up buying off the shelf tags that could have been bought for a fraction of the price years earlier.

The Garden Bridge. £53 million of public money. Not a single piece was built. You might ask what £53 million was spent on exactly.

The Rwanda deportation scheme. £715 million. Four people went voluntarily. Not a single forced deportation was carried out. Then the whole thing was scrapped.

Now here's the part that ties it all together.

In 2019, the Prime Minister's own Implementation Unit looked at the government's £432 billion portfolio of major projects. Only 8% had proper plans to evaluate whether they were working. 64% of that spending, £276 billion, had no evaluation at all. None. The government was spending hundreds of billions of your money with no way of knowing if any of it was delivering.

The National Audit Office has said there has been a "consistent pattern of underperformance" spanning 25 years. Twenty five years of reports saying the same thing. And nothing changes.

Add it up. HS2 overruns. NHS IT written off. £10.9 billion in Covid fraud. Universal Credit ballooning. Smart meters over budget. Post Office compensation approaching £2 billion. Fire Control. Rwanda. Garden Bridge. Tagging. And those are just the ones that made the news. The total runs into the tens of billions. More than the entire annual education budget. Approaching what the government now spends on debt interest in a single year.

And here's the scary part. This is only what we know about. The NAO has been clear the real picture is worse because most projects aren't properly evaluated in the first place. These are the failures too big to hide. Imagine the ones that aren't.

This is the same government that says there's no money for public services. That raises your taxes every year and delivers less every year. That can't build a railway. Can't roll out a computer system. Can't buy protective equipment without losing billions to fraud.

And every time it happens, the pattern is the same. The project fails. The minister moves on. The civil servant gets a knighthood. The contractor gets the next contract. And you pick up the bill.

The UK doesn't have a funding problem. It has a competence problem. And until that changes, no amount of tax rises, borrowing, or spending reviews will make the slightest difference.

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

@videodawn @Dunibear I'd go one step further, drop the murder charge and pardon him.
OK I don't know what his original crime was to be imprisoned in the first place but he has done the nation and taxpayers a huge favour 👏
UK needs to bring back the death penalty for sick bastards like Huntley 🤬

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

#ReformUK welcome to the UK folks where current government seem hell bent on continuing on their unelected manifesto path of increasing taxes on businesses and its workers simply as a means to buy the next batch of great unwashed electoral votes
benefits system out of control 🤬

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

fast forward to 2030 >
when the wind doesn't blow and the sun don't shine ?
we can all look forward to...
INSUFFICIENT power generation and BLACKOUTS !!
insane how one unchecked man can do all of this 🤬
https://t.co/gmChSFWOh8

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

@GaryNTrader a lot of the time I am left wondering what is the point of electing 'local' MP's who appear to spend the majority of their time debating 'global' issues rather than coming together to fix issues that are much closer to home which IMO is why they were elected in the first place 🤔

[Rod Bishop @rodbishop15]

U.K. #gas prices have fallen 40% over the last year on average.
Yet our bills are going up under #Labour.
Why?
Because we are all paying for #EdMiliband s #netzero green illusion, added to your bills, and you’re paying for the benefit scroungers, who just hold up their hands and say …….I can’t pay.
Socialism on a stick.

[Im The Parrot @ImTheParrot]

@ChopsyBristol Joey Barton on his way to court 🤣