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0% on benefits. €208 million per year in healthcare costs from British over-65s. At minimum.
Total verified healthcare cost of British over-65s to Spain: €47.1 million (S1 infrastructure gap) + €162.6 million (non-S1 full cost) = €208 million per year. Before a single under-65 non-worker, a single tourist emergency admission, or a single uncollected hospital invoice is counted. If the Immigration Observatory's higher over-65 figure of 172,000 is used, the cost rises to approximately €340 million.
And the UK knows this arrangement is profitable. Paul MacNaught, Director of EU and International at the UK Department of Health, told the Commons Health Committee in 2017: "The average cost that Spain charges the UK per pensioner signed up to these arrangements is about €3,500 currently". He added: "Our cost in the UK is about £4,500, so let's say €5,000". The UK parks its non-contributing residents in Spain because it is cheaper for the British state than looking after them at home. Spain provides the hospitals. The UK sends a discount cheque.
Before Brexit, the UK paid Spain approximately €285 million per year for healthcare of British nationals, as confirmed by UK Health Secretary Alistair Burt in the House of Commons in 2016. During the Brexit transition, this collapsed to €40.2 million in 2022. In 2023, the UK sent €417.5 million, a 938% increase, almost certainly a one-off catch-up clearing accumulated arrears. UK DHSC rules state that all EEA healthcare payments "are made in arrears, usually between 1 to 3 years after the event". Post-Brexit routine payments were "unlikely to begin until early 2022". Spain's Tribunal de Cuentas had already identified €138.68 million in unpaid cross-border healthcare bills from EU countries as of January 2018. One catch-up cheque does not erase years of structural underpayment. And it does not cover the 39,000 non-S1 over-65s whose care costs Spanish taxpayers €162.6 million per year with no reimbursement from anyone.
Sources:
Alistair Burt, UK Health Secretary, House of Commons 2016 — £223 million (€285 million) paid to Spain:
https://t.co/nf8pQYIqbL
The Objective, INSS reimbursement data, 8 February 2025 — €417.5m / €40.2m / 938%:
https://t.co/WqDr9RuFSX
DHSC annual report on Healthcare (EEA) Act payments:
https://t.co/aaSAGSsmpP
.@louismosley heads @PalantirTech 's UK and European operations. Louis seems to like doing audits, I like doing audits too. Here's one for Palantir:
✅ Palantir entered the NHS via a £1 contract in 2020, no competition. Expanded to £60m in COVID contracts, all without tender, before winning the main deal.
✅ 13 of 41 trusts using Palantir's FDP scheduling tool recorded fewer operations after adopting it. NHS England quietly admitted it cannot prove causation. Chelsea and Westminster, the trust behind 84% of the outpatient waiting list claim, has seen its actual waiting list rise by 20,000 over 3 years (The Londoner). NHS staff report the platform runs approximately 10 times slower than the system it replaced (@PeterKGeoghegan, Democracy for Sale). @Foxglovelegal obtained the data NHS England chose not to publish.
✅ NHS England's own data (updated 12 June 2026): 111,589 additional theatre procedures, cumulative from early adopters in 2022 through end of March 2026, across 39 trusts. The NHS delivers around 18.4 million planned treatments per year. At its most generous annual reading, Palantir's unproven claim amounts to roughly 0.3% of NHS annual activity. A third of one percent, with no control group, no causal proof, and 30% of adopting trusts recording fewer operations.
✅ The larger "waiting list removal" figures (218,389 outpatient, 993,477 RTT validation) are mostly administrative cleaning: patients who moved, died, went private, changed their mind about treatment, or were duplicates. NHS England's own methodology page confirms this. A Band 3 administrative assistant costs £27,000 per year. The £47.1m annual contract would fund over 1,700 of them. List validation does not require a funding a $ 360bn surveillance company.
✅ The contract ceiling is £330m over 7 years; £47.1m per year. That fully funds 100 consultant surgeons, 100 registrars and 500 theatre and ward nurses every year. 700 staff. Every year. For 7 years. With money left over. A scheduling tool optimises existing capacity. Staff add new capacity. The NHS has over 106,000 vacancies.
✅ 100 consultants and 100 registrars working standard theatre schedules produce an estimated 60,000 to 90,000 procedures per year. That is more than Palantir's most generous annualised claim. They cost less than the Palantir contract. And they come with 500 nurses who staff wards, run clinics, manage discharges and enable theatre lists.
✅ Those 700 staff return an estimated £164m to the state over 7 years in tax, pensions and VAT. Every penny circulates in UK communities. 100% stays. Zero leaves.
✅ From Palantir's Companies House filing (year ending 31 December 2024): £247m turnover, 749 employees. Cash wages: £91m. Share-based compensation: £62m, vesting in US-listed equity on the NYSE. Corporate tax: approximately £2m. Palantir converts roughly a quarter of its UK revenue into US shareholder value through stock compensation alone.
✅ Palantir claims "£5 of benefits for every £1 spent". NHS England has quietly admitted it cannot prove causation. Peer-reviewed research across 25 EU countries found health spending returns £4.3 for every £1, the highest of any category of government spending (Reeves et al., Globalization and Health). Defence and surveillance spending had a negative multiplier.
✅ @carolecadwalla and @thenerve_news found Palantir has recruited at least 32 senior UK government officials since 2012, including the MoD's AI chief who co-wrote the military AI strategy and met Palantir 9 times in official capacity, NHS England's head of AI, a former MI6 chief, and the joint chair of Chelsea and Westminster. At least 69 government hires in total. Transparency International UK: "acute risk" of corruption.
✅ Mosley told the Observer that if a future government won a "clear public mandate" to use NHS data for immigration enforcement, Palantir would execute it. "Our belief in the importance of abiding by the democratic decision is going to take us into delivering some very controversial things". Thiel, co-founder and chairman of the same company: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible".
✅ Built ICE's deportation targeting infrastructure since 2014. @AmnestyUK's parent organisation found "a high risk that Palantir is contributing to serious human rights violations of migrants and asylum-seekers". 2019 Mississippi raids: 680 arrested, children separated from parents. 52 people have died in ICE custody since January 2025; the highest toll in over two decades.
✅ Maven Smart System ran the targeting for the 2026 US campaign against Iran. US Tomahawk missile struck an elementary school in Minab on 28 February. Approximately 168 killed, mostly children aged 7 to 12. Pentagon investigation concluded the US was responsible.
✅ Supplies AI targeting systems to the Israeli military during what the ICJ has ruled is a plausible genocide. The UN special rapporteur named Palantir as an enabler of "unlawful use of force" in the occupied territories. Amnesty International has described Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide and cited Palantir's IDF work as a contributing factor. Karp, 1 July: "the most publicly supportive CEO of Israel". "Israel is on the side of good" he added. Israel is literally killing children en masse.
✅ Thiel: women's suffrage and welfare had "rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron". Said at the Oxford Union the NHS "makes people ill". Runs "Dialog", a secret invitation-only network of billionaires, Trump officials, senators and NATO commanders, exposed by data leak in June.
✅ Karp told investors in February 2025 that Palantir exists "to scare our enemies and, on occasion, kill them".
✅ Under £820,000 in UK corporate tax in 2025 (@openDemocracy investigation); less than it paid in Korea, Japan, France or Germany. According to ITEP, the US parent paid zero federal income tax on $1.5bn domestic income in 2025.
✅ Cross-party Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, 3 June 2026 (chair @ChiOnwurah): Palantir's public-sector presence is "an unacceptable point of weakness". Urged the government to trigger the February 2027 break clause.
✅ Remains deeply vile and evil.
Sources:
Palantir Technologies UK, Ltd, Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024, Companies House (company no. 07042994)
https://t.co/AGfiS8uXwO
NHS England, "NHS Federated Data Platform uptake and benefits", updated 12 June 2026
https://t.co/Rl3GOUwbvm
R. Sylvester, "Inside Palantir's growing grip on UK public services", The Observer, 22 March 2026
https://t.co/K0Yh5b2dSc
C. Young, C. Cadwalladr and I. Tucker, "The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials", The Nerve, April 2026
https://t.co/8gfZFiP6nn
Foxglove, "UK Government and Palantir must correct public record after NHS admits published data does not back up FDP benefit claims", 26 June 2026
https://t.co/u8xU4N9H7K
The Londoner, "Palantir cleared 183,000 patients from one hospital's waiting list. Or did it?", 2 July 2026
https://t.co/czGjuKMy3H
P. Geoghegan, "Revealed: Palantir's NHS tech is ten times slower than current system", Democracy for Sale, 23 May 2026
https://t.co/RTRCM4r71q
A. Sethi and J. Yan, "Exclusive: How Palantir harvested millions in UK tax breaks", openDemocracy, 26 June 2026
https://t.co/TVFT5N3p6I
Institute for Government, Performance Tracker 2025: NHS Hospitals
https://t.co/HHWD8tENpe
Amnesty International USA, "Failing to Do Right: The Urgent Need for Palantir to Respect Human Rights", September 2020
https://t.co/ybI9qOP3V0
Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch, "Dying in Detention", June 2026
https://t.co/oOx8K5gG4A
Amnesty International, "USA/Iran: Those responsible for deadly and unlawful US strike on school must be held accountable", March 2026
https://t.co/yR5sOpghUd
Anadolu Agency, "Palantir CEO says he is 'most publicly supportive' of Israel", 2 July 2026
https://t.co/FVuYZSESgP
P. Thiel, "The Education of a Libertarian", Cato Unbound, 13 April 2009
https://t.co/ORO10RCcfL
M. Roeloffs, "What We Know About Billionaire Peter Thiel's Secret 'Dialog' Society", Forbes, 18 June 2026
https://t.co/TpCqBu0KQs
NPR, "How Palantir, the secretive tech company, is rising in the Trump era", 1 May 2025
https://t.co/DowQ289xLJ
House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, "MPs warn that Palantir's increasing presence in the UK public sector is an 'unacceptable point of weakness'", 3 June 2026
https://t.co/tqvysGbJvm
A. Reeves et al., "Does investment in the health sector promote or inhibit economic growth?", Globalization and Health, vol. 9, 2013
https://t.co/1bzqFmrz2E
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Corporate Tax Avoidance Report, 2026
NHS Employers, Agenda for Change Pay Scales 2025/26
https://t.co/L4W8ordEVY
https://t.co/VmvSWnQvny, Rates and Thresholds for Employers 2025 to 2026
https://t.co/YT4LzPRXv5
@YusufAsunmogejo@SavvyRinu Contradicting yourself.
You went to a private church school & forced change for Muslims.
You now claim Muslims don't force change.
@Erntastedfresh Hokit is a fluke.
Beating an old gatekeeper doesn't mean shxt.
He will be tested when he meets his contemporaries.
For now,let him enjoy the spotlight
@Senior_Sley Wokism/liberalism until there's some birth complication, then she will turn around to blame the same health worker for not doing what's in the best interest of the baby.
Crazy
@xakskelly So long as the pay is right and you don't touch me.
Dey your dey,make I de my dey.
1 fast lesson you will learn practicing abroad is that not everybody will like you. Just do your job & leave the rest to God
🇬🇧 Today's self own.
Last night I moseyed on down to my local Mercure after seeing a post from "Truth Seeking Patriot 69" on Facebook saying there was a hotel full of fighting age males and that true patriots needed immediately. I didn't even finish reading it. It had loads of flag emojis and the word "URGENT" in capitals six times, so I knew it had to be true.
Sure enough there were dozens of patriots outside already shouting at the hotel. I recognised quite a few of them from jail, Crimewatch and down the local squat where I sometimes score heroin to ease the disease in my soul. One lad claimed he was an ex-SAS sniper but still had his Argos security tag attached to his tracksuit bottoms. Another said he'd personally stopped seven thousand dinghies armed only with a folding camping chair.
I often wondered how Reform manage to summon such colourful characters at such short notice, but then someone added me to a WhatsApp group called "Dregs of Society". The welcome message just read "NO GRASSING" followed by forty-seven England flags and a GIF of a bald eagle, despite this being Britain.
We all started chanting at the hotel. I was proudly holding a giant homemade "GET OUT OF IT" placard that I'd accidentally spelled "GET OWT OF ITT". Someone kindly corrected my spelling with a Sharpie but somehow made it worse.
Between chants we all sang Alice at full volume despite half the crowd thinking it was by Smokey Robinson and the other half insisting Elvis wrote it. One bloke had brought a Bluetooth speaker that only played the first nineteen seconds on repeat because he'd forgotten to pay for Spotify Premium.
To keep morale up I handed round my emergency bacon sandwiches, although I'd eaten most of them on the bus. Then I gave an impassioned speech about chemtrails, halal sausage rolls and how pigeons work for MI5. Even my own side looked unconvinced.
Then disaster struck.
The hotel doors suddenly burst open and a crowd came charging towards us.
Absolute panic.
People scattered in every direction. One patriot vaulted a hedge and disappeared into a duck pond. Another abandoned his mobility scooter and sprinted faster than I've ever seen a healthy person run. Someone shouted "Strategic withdrawal!" but it mostly looked like fifty middle-aged blokes running away while dropping cans of lager.
I soiled my pants almost instantly.
I dived head first into a bush where I remained completely invisible apart from my legs, which were sticking out.
As I lay there trembling, Gemma Collins wandered past walking an enormous Newfoundland dog. The dog sniffed me for a bit, looked disappointed, then peed directly on my shoes.
The GC just looked at me, sighed deeply and said, "Honestly... what a state."
She then informed me that the hotel wasn't full of migrants at all.
It was full of BT Openreach engineers on a training course.
Apparently they'd charged out because they were fed up listening to us yelling at them while they were trying to revise fibre broadband installation procedures.
One of them shouted after us, "Get a job, you tossers!"
I've never felt so humiliated.
I trudged to McDonald's where I ordered eight cheeseburgers, two large fries, twenty nuggets and a diet Coke because I'm trying to be healthier.
While eating I sent Aisha the daily 300 text messages I've been sending ever since she dumped me.
Most just said things like "U up?" and "I've changed" followed immediately by another message explaining how the moon landings were filmed in Doncaster.
She replied with exactly one message.
"Wrong number"
Still...
Faint heart never won fair maiden.
Reform is coming.