🚨🚨🚨🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 BRITAIN GAVE AWAY A QUARTER OF A TRILLION POUNDS SINCE TONY BLAIR CAME TO OFFICE
I have spent the last few days going back through Britain’s foreign aid and international development spending since 1997, and the scale of it is extraordinary.
The official number alone is roughly £254.9 BILLION of ODA from 1997 to 2025.
Inflation-adjusted into 2025 money, that is about £352.3 BILLION.
And that is before you start looking at the broader non-ODA security and stabilisation spending that sits alongside the aid system.
What is striking is not simply the total. It is the architecture underneath it.
The biggest channels are enormous:
World Bank IDA: roughly £21.6bn in identified UK replenishment commitments from 1997 through IDA21.
International Climate Finance: around £21.2bn across its three major phases.
EU development and external-aid channels: at least £11.2bn already reconstructed from 2010 onward, with earlier years still to complete.
Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria: £5.5bn by 2024.
UK education aid: around £5.7bn across the reviewed 2015–2020 period.
DFID contractor spending: roughly £5.3bn across the 2007/08–2013/14 profile.
Ukraine non-military support: around £5bn, although much of this is guarantees and fiscal support rather than simple grant aid.
Syria crisis response: about £4.63bn.
Reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child-health programmes: about £4.6bn.
Economic-development portfolio: about £4.69bn across 268 programmes.
Agriculture aid: about £4.15bn from 2016–2021.
Gavi: at least £4bn committed by 2020.
African Development Fund: around £3.56bn in core replenishments identified.
Afghanistan: nearly £3.5bn.
CDC/British International Investment capital increase: around £3.1bn.
Nigeria debt relief: around £2.8bn scored through the aid system.
And then there are the less obvious categories.
In 2024 alone, £2.827bn of British ODA was spent inside Britain on refugees and asylum seekers.
The old Conflict, Stability and Security Fund and its successor also carried large non-ODA spending. From 2017/18 to 2024/25 I can identify roughly £4.7bn of non-ODA security and stabilisation spending alongside the aid budget.
Thus, Britain built an enormous, highly distributed international-development machine involving the World Bank, EU institutions, UN agencies, climate funds, vaccine alliances, development banks, private contractors, universities, NGOs, debt relief, guarantees, investment vehicles, refugee costs inside Britain, humanitarian programmes and security funds.
Where did every pound go, who received it, what did Britain get for it, and why has nobody ever presented the public with the full ledger?
That is the audit I have now started building.
@grok '...video of a woman reading aloud a letter claiming Bexley Council designated the borough a "sanctuary" for refugees, urging residents to keep young daughters indoors, avoid short skirts to prevent tempting assaults, and confine dogs indoors.
Bexley Council confirmed the letter dated August 24, 2026, titled "Neighbourhood Notice – New Residential Occupancy," is fake, not issued by them, and referred the matter to the Metropolitan Police as a hoax.
Posted by Pat McGinnis, leader of the small National Housing Party UK which campaigns against permanent settlement immigration and the UN Refugee Convention, the post has received high engagement amid ongoing UK debates over asylum accommodation and local impacts.'
I cannot stop thinking about Jack Lees choosing to swim back into the rip for the third student.
On 4 June 2024, at Northcott Mouth in Cornwall, three young women were caught in a powerful rip current. Jack and his friend Zaid Anfoka helped two out of the rip. Jack then went back for the third.
He stayed with her for about 40 minutes until she escaped the current. All three women made it back. Jack, 20, did not.
I feel heartbroken by what his courage cost him. I think Britain should know his name (I wish more people did).
Had you heard Jack’s name before?
I have had so many people message/comment in the last five hours to say they are never playing the lottery again and had no idea this was going on.
This is why I am doing this. We have to work with each other and educate the masses as to whats going on out there.
The system is designed to work against you, but by sharing information we can slowly stop the rot and reverse the damage done to our country.
Today is a good day.
@TalkTV@cfdownes_@JuliaHB1 She loves the sound of her own hectoring voice and her oh so clever, rude put downs. Surprised anyone agrees to her 'interviews.'
@JamesLucasIT Thankyou for this fascinating explanation James. Alas a wheelchair wouldn't have coped without causing a lot of discomfort and probably pain going over the terrain where Christina lived.