Matthew thought the shows went very well
I didn't
He couldn't create a natural flow because his ego kept getting in the way
I got him replaced by people who were better
I don’t care about the lovely weather.
I don’t care about cancelling my Netflix subscription.
I don’t care about Vape shops.
I don’t care about £2 bus fares.
Just Stop The Boats!
🚨BREAKING: A fourth South Yorkshire Police officer has been arrested on suspicion rape gang offences in Rotherham
We all know the type of Police officers that were doing this
We could probably guess their name
@ukhomeoffice In our own streets now, houses converted to fill with these people. Not nice for families who live on the same streets. Gangs of men watching their children playing outside. No one feels safe. It’s feeling more frightening as they keep coming.
🚨 MEGA AUDIT: RAF WETHERSFIELD — WHO IS INVOLVED, WHO IS BEING PAID, AND WHO RUNS THE NETWORK?
We have started following the money around RAF Wethersfield in Essex, it is not pretty....
This is not simply an accommodation centre.
Residents have access to organised sport, football and cricket, fitness sessions, art activities, English-language support, gardening, mentoring, healthcare, welfare support, advice services and community programmes delivered by a mix of contractors, charities, CICs and public bodies.
It is an ecosystem involving a private Home Office contractor, government departments, councils, healthcare, security, national asylum-support organisations, charities, CICs and voluntary organisations.
Here is what the public record currently shows.
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💰 THE SITE
RAF Wethersfield opened for asylum accommodation in July 2023.
The original estimated refurbishment/setup cost was approximately:
£5 MILLION.
The revised estimate became:
£49 MILLION.
Nearly TEN TIMES the original estimate.
And nationally, the NAO found contracts worth approximately £254 MILLION had been used to identify, design and operate large asylum sites.
Approximately £244 MILLION of that value was awarded WITHOUT FULL COMPETITION.
That does not itself establish wrongdoing.
It does raise an obvious taxpayer question:
How was value for money demonstrated?
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🏢 THE MAIN OPERATOR: CLEARSPRINGS READY HOMES
The Home Office confirms Clearsprings Ready Homes operates Wethersfield.
Companies House currently records active directors:
• Steven Frank Lakey
• Daniel Williams
Clearsprings sits at the centre of the operational system.
But the complete Wethersfield-specific amount paid to Clearsprings is one of the figures we still want disclosed.
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💷 LOCAL GOVERNMENT MONEY
Braintree District Council receives Home Office funding connected with Wethersfield.
The Large Sites and Vessels Grant pays:
£3,500 PER NEWLY OCCUPIED BED SPACE.
Reporting based on council figures says more than:
£3.7 MILLION has been received in connection with Wethersfield since 2023.
That is local-impact funding — NOT the total cost of running the site.
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🎨 ART REFUGE
Registered charity 1114353.
A reported £14,125 from a ring-fenced Home Office-funded £50,000 local scheme went to Art Refuge for Wethersfield-related provision.
Current trustees listed by the Charity Commission:
• Dr Chris Wood — Chair
• Anna Jane Castleton Simmons
• Timothy Michael Richards
• Polly Bagnall
• Dr Kathryn Cronin
Art Refuge has provided arts-based activities connected with Wethersfield.
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⛪ ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
Registered charity 1053992.
Reported Wethersfield allocation:
£17,490 for English, art and gardening provision.
The Charity Commission currently lists 13 trustees, including:
• Elaine Heyworth — Chair
• Peter McGauley
• Patricia Nobbs
• Anthony James McGuigan
• Suzanne Anita Motha
• Clare O'Brien
• Elizabeth Creevy
• Monica Chidgey
• Winston Waller
• Gustavo Vas Falcao
• Nasha Pierre
• Dr Stephen Gill
• Mark Graham Branch
Again: this £17,490 is the identifiable Wethersfield-related allocation — NOT the charity's entire income.
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⚽ CHANGING LIVES COMMUNITY SERVICES CIC
This one is particularly interesting.
CLCS publicly says it works AT RAF Wethersfield in partnership with:
• Home Office
• The FA
• Essex County Council
Its Wethersfield provision has included football, cricket, fitness, mentoring and educational activity.
Companies House currently lists its directors as:
• Ben John Doyle
• David Jonathan Simmons
• Aaron James William Strachan
The precise amount attributable to its Wethersfield operation still needs establishing.
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🧳 CARE4CALAIS
Registered charity 1169048.
Care4Calais has been involved in supporting Wethersfield residents and campaigning/litigating over conditions and suitability of accommodation.
Current Charity Commission trustees:
• Sim Eldem
• Wilfred Hide Sullivan
• Dr Iain Duncan James McHardy Overton
• Sarah Grace Edith Blakemore
• Matthew Demwell
• James Frederick Nichol
• Emma Rose
A Care4Calais drop-in has also operated from Salvation Army premises in Braintree.
IMPORTANT:
We have NOT established that Care4Calais received money from the £50,000 Braintree scheme.
Its involvement and its funding are separate questions.
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🩺 MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES UK
MSF has operated a Wethersfield healthcare project alongside Doctors of the World UK.
MSF UK is itself enormous.
Latest Charity Commission figures for 2024:
TOTAL INCOME:
£95.3 MILLION
TOTAL EXPENDITURE:
£89.8 MILLION
225 employees.
Current trustees include:
• Kathleen Poole
• Julie Ann Weston
• Dr Peter John Garrett
• Sabrina Liang Ai Das
• Dr Caroline Bwango
• Prof Bertrand Olivier Taithe
• Edward James Mortimer Monk
• Timothy Douglas Symington
• Iesha Singh
• Jehangir Dhunjishaw Ghandhi
• Dr Innocent Muleya
• Emery Pacifique Igiraneza
• Dr Rachael Mary Craven
• Christopher John Peskett
But be clear:
£95.3m is MSF UK's TOTAL organisational income.
It is NOT £95.3m spent at Wethersfield.
The Wethersfield-specific cost remains to be established.
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🩺 DOCTORS OF THE WORLD UK
Registered charity 1067406.
Works with MSF on healthcare provision connected with Wethersfield.
Current trustees:
• Mark Brython Ward
• Dr Steven Lloyd
• Dr Nikita Kanani
• Julia McDonald
• Philomene Uwamaliya
• Colin Brett Herrman
• Avril Lee
Again, its total charitable finances must NOT be represented as Wethersfield expenditure.
We want the project-specific figure.
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📞 MIGRANT HELP
Migrant Help forms part of the national Home Office asylum-support infrastructure.
It is involved at Wethersfield and residents can access its support.
This sits alongside Clearsprings rather than replacing it:
HOME OFFICE
↓
CLEARSPRINGS
↓
ACCOMMODATION / SITE OPERATION
while separately:
HOME OFFICE
↓
MIGRANT HELP
↓
ASYLUM ADVICE / ISSUE REPORTING / SUPPORT
We are now isolating exactly how much of Migrant Help's national contract expenditure can properly be attributed to Wethersfield.
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🏥 THEN THERE IS THE STATE INFRASTRUCTURE
Also involved around Wethersfield are:
• Home Office
• Braintree District Council
• Essex County Council
• NHS bodies
• Essex Police
• Essex Fire & Rescue
• East of England migration infrastructure
And the Home Office confirms the site has:
• 24/7 specialist security
• healthcare
• catering
• welfare
• transport/support arrangements
• maintenance/site management
But some of the most important supplier names and Wethersfield-specific contract values are still not clearly disclosed in the headline public information.
THAT is where we go next.
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🔎 THE MONEY MAP
UK TAXPAYER
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HOME OFFICE
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CLEARSPRINGS READY HOMES
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WETHERSFIELD
Around that core sit:
SECURITY
HEALTHCARE
CATERING
TRANSPORT
MAINTENANCE
MIGRANT HELP
COUNCILS
NHS
POLICE
CHARITIES
CICs
VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS
Some are government contractors.
Some receive specific public grants.
Some are independently funded charities.
Do NOT conflate the three.
The investigation is to establish exactly which is which.
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❓ THE QUESTIONS NOW GOING TO GOVERNMENT
We want:
Total taxpayer expenditure on Wethersfield since 2023.
Current annual operating cost.
Cost per occupied bed per NIGHT.
Total paid specifically to Clearsprings for Wethersfield.
Name + value of the 24/7 security contract.
Name + value of the healthcare contract.
Catering costs and supplier.
Transport costs and supplier.
Maintenance/facilities-management costs.
Every NGO/CIC/charity receiving public money attributable to Wethersfield.
Police, NHS and council costs.
Forecast cost of operating the expanded site.
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And remember how this started:
ESTIMATED SETUP COST:
£5 MILLION.
REVISED:
£49 MILLION.
The Government originally promoted large sites as an alternative to expensive asylum hotels.
The NAO subsequently concluded that, under the programme assumptions it examined, the large-sites programme was projected to cost MORE than the hotel alternative.
Now Wethersfield is being expanded.
FOLLOWING PUBLIC MONEY.
Company by company.
Contract by contract.
Grant by grant.
Director by director.
Until we can answer one question:
🇬🇧 WHAT DOES RAF WETHERSFIELD ACTUALLY COST THE BRITISH TAXPAYER — AND WHERE DOES EVERY POUND GO?
This investigation continues.
The face of pure hatred. An Irish citizen visiting France, tells two Jewish visitors he's sorry Hitler didn't finish the job. They started videoing him and he threatens to kill them.
Identified himself as "Paddy from Ireland".
🇬🇧 WE ARE AUDITING EVERY SINGLE LABOUR MP.
Not a sample. Not just the Cabinet.
EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
We are building a massive public-record database mapping:
→ Donations & declared financial interests
→ Charities & NGOs
→ Migration & asylum organisations
→ APPGs and parliamentary groups
→ Outside jobs & advisory positions
→ Company connections
→ Overseas visits & hospitality
→ Parliamentary activity
→ Government funding connected to organisations in the network
Then we join the records together.
WHO IS CONNECTED TO WHOM?
WHO FUNDS THE ORGANISATIONS?
WHERE DOES PUBLIC MONEY GO?
WHERE DO POLITICS, NGOs AND BUSINESS OVERLAP?
The screenshot below is just ONE layer of the database.
Everything sourced. Everything checkable.
For decades this information has been scattered across parliamentary registers, government databases, company records, charity accounts and financial disclosures.
AI changes that.
We can search, structure and cross-reference enormous quantities of public information at a speed that simply wasn't practical before.
And Labour is only the beginning.
Eventually, the same methodology can cover the whole of Westminster.
🇬🇧 The British people deserve to know who influences their Parliament and where their money goes.
FOLLOW THE RECORDS.
FOLLOW THE NETWORK.
FOLLOW THE MONEY.