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24.1.26

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@debcurtis613 @KenMMartinJr @BidensBDE @HalfwayPost Filling his pockets while he fills his diaper. 🤮

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@ImperiousGrdsmn @Bacist__ @TheJFreakinC Don’t confuse your ignorant bullshit opinion of what Europe is like with reality, Jethro.
Your America is a shithole. Sort it out and stop accepting MAGA abuse.

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@VetMinimum @jmbprime The war is to distract people like you from the Epstein files. Trump is a child rapist.
You’re a child rapist’s apologist.

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@KenMMartinJr @BidensBDE @HalfwayPost Stop dreaming Kenny. Trump isn’t going to shag you no matter how much you stick your nose up his arse.
Trumps only interested in fucking little girls. And the US economy. And US reputation.

[Gracie Samuels @GracieSamuels]

I’m a pensioner and I’m also disabled and Starmer has not punished me. Get your facts straight James and also he is not the most unpopular prime minister, Thatcher was.
Since Labour were elected people like you have attacked Starmer 24/7. From day one the far right press cabal have been attacking him 24/7 over the most absurd things, Specsavers gave him some glasses and we didn’t stop hearing about it for months, Nigel Farage accepts £5 million quid bung into his bank account and it’s hardly mentioned. The day before yesterday Farage came out of hiding to incite a 'cold rage' riot and he succeeded and 11 police officers were injured in Southampton, despite the family pleading for no more division and hatred.
Deservedly Farage is being shown for what he is a nasty despicable tiny man who will use anyone and anything to get what he wants. If he ever gets elected our NHS is gone.
Meanwhile since he was elected Starmer has had to deal with #FaragesRiots (number 1) and insane man in the White House slapping tariffs on us, the threat of WW3 coming closer because of Farage’s mate Trump, and him destabilising world peace, then he has had to deal with Trump's illegal war in Iran as well as all the dreadful domestic issues left by 14 years of Tories. The economy is losing £90 billion per year because of Farage’s #Brexit and all the rest of it. Starmer has handled this with calm dignity, if Farage was PM we would be involved in an illegal war costing our service men and women in injuries and maybe their lives and we would be spending millions on Trump's war. I for one am glad we have a PM who is keeping this country on an even keel. Who do you actually want as PM — Farage? If you do you’re going the right way about it!

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@geppss @LePapillonBlu2 He doesn’t make it to the toilets, either.

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@RichardGrenell In an olfactory sense.

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@ZachFOCO @TESouth10 @JimmyJ4thewin Wait till someone tells you what happened before the atrocities on October 7

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@TESouth10 @JimmyJ4thewin Your ignorance is astounding. Women can study in Palestine.
It’s Israel that is stopping them - and men - study by its genocide on them.

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@bennyjohnson They dropped you on your head.

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@Breaking57 Land of the Free, eh?

[Jaxon @JaxonFisk]

PM local election losses without resignation:

Thatcher 1,066
Major 2,018
Blair 818
Brown 321
Cameron 405
May 1,134
Johnson 485
Sunak 474

Hope this helps.

#elections

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@buc97552 @BladeoftheS “Scottish and British patriot”

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@chris_bosley @PamelaHensley22 Chris says stop the hate by hating.
Don’t be like Chris.
Chris is a prick.

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@Wisevaper @PamelaHensley22 Land of the free 🤔

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@RpsAgainstTrump And by nursing home you mean jail.

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THIS is why decent pensions, the NHS, safe schools, funded armed forces are ‘unaffordable’.

The money is there. Until corruption and incompetence take it.

[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.

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@BoLoudon Yet his wealth and that of his family has increased by billions.
He can’t be arsed with his salary - it’s chicken feed to him and makes mugs like you think he’s on your side.

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@Nugent4nil @Chris_of_Durham @NadineDorries @reformparty_uk No, Robert.

I was astounded by The Rt Hon Member for Gin Lane.