MISSING: Have you seen Lexi?
We're asking for your help to find Lexi who has been reported missing from Rotherham.
Lexi, aged 12 was last seen in Canklow, Rotherham at 00:05am today (9th August) and she has not been heard from since.
Lexi is described as a white female who is around 4ft 3 tall, brown shoulder length hair, slim build. She was last seen wearing dark blue jean shorts, black vest top and no shoes.
Officers are becoming increasingly concerned for Lexi's welfare and want to speak to anybody who has seen her.
Have you seen her? Do you know where she might be?
If you have seen Lexi or know something that might help us, please report online here: Add something to a missing person report | South Yorkshire Police
You can also call 101. Please quote incident number 4 of 9th August 2026 when you get in touch.
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@Patriotism87543 "Socialism is a political religion whose God is the State and whose priests are the bureaucrats... It is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
"Winston Churchill
๐ Six years after Covid, UK public services are still less productive than they were in 2019.
Overall public-service productivity is 2.5% lower than before the pandemic.
In healthcare, it is 5.8% lower.
That means taxpayers are still getting less output for the money and resources going in than they did before Covid.
And yet the political answer increasingly seems to be: more tax.
Before asking people to hand over even more, shouldnโt government first prove it can get better results from the hundreds of billions it already spends?
More tax should not be the default answer to poor value for money.
Do you think government should focus on reform before raising taxes again?
Anyone who took part in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade is dead.
The person responsible for holding them to account - is God.
It is beyond arrogant, and against Christ's teaching, for the Archbishop to usurp God.
At 13 years old, Ellie Reynolds was walking down a street in Barrow when a local restaurant owner dragged her into a car.
He drugged her.
Took her to a filthy flat with dirty mattresses on the floor.
And then she was gang-raped, beaten and tortured by a group of immigrant Asian men. These beasts destroyed her physically and mentally.
It didnโt stop.
For five years this was her life repeated abuse, threats to cut out her tongue, dogs set on her, held hostage in takeaways and flats.
When she finally found the courage to tell the police what had been done to her, they didnโt arrest her abusers.
They arrested her.
Less than 24 hours after reporting a gang rape, police turned up at her family home and charged her with blackmail.
That charge was later dropped. She was acquitted.
But her actual abusers walked free on her case. The Crown Prosecution Service said there was โno realistic prospect of conviction.โ
One of the men she named the man known as โSarjโ was later convicted of dozens of child rape and sexual abuse offences against other girls and given a life sentence.
Ellie still waits for justice on what was done to her.
A 13-year-old girl was snatched off the street in broad daylight, systematically raped for yearsโฆ and when she asked for help, the system treated her as the criminal.
This is not a failure.
This is a betrayal.
UK authorities failed Ellie Reynolds.
And she is not the only one. WHY does our Policing and Justice systems protect and put criminals especially immigrant criminals ahead of victims.
Something has got to change.
These animals shouldnโt be in this country.
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Rupert Lowe has asked Nigel Farage and Reform UK to UNITE for the good of the country. Would you support that as a Reformer?
@ArchRose90 Left-wing city at the end of the day. Muslim terrorist slaughtered kids at a concert but instead of demanding answers and change, they all went out and got tattoos of a fucking bee.
Three charged with the stabbing murder of Christopher Bradbury, 44, in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Hassan Ahmed, 19
Dhannish Mahmood, 19
Subhan Nadeem, 20
A British man is dead. Three young men are charged with his murder.
And yet this will barely register on the national news.
If the victim and the perpetrators had been reversed, this would have been wall-to-wall coverage for a week. Politicians would be lining up. Every newspaper would be running it on the front page.
The outrage would be endless.
Instead itโs a quiet local story that most people will never hear.
Christopher Bradbury was loved by his family.
His life mattered.
The selective silence says everything about whose lives the media decides are worth mourning.โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
We now have a Two Tier Media!!
Andy Burnham, in two weeks of being PM, has perfectly illustrated the main problem in UK public finances.
Week 1: there's a cost of living crisis, so to help you we've taken ยฃ45 a year off your electricity bill and capped bus fares at ยฃ2.
Week 2: we don't have enough money to fund everything we want to do, so we're taking ยฃ630 a year out of your salary.
Same government, same month.
Credit where it's due first - taking VAT off electricity from October is real money, so is the ยฃ2 bus cap in January if you're on a bus twice a day. Immediate cost of living relief is genuinely needed by most people.
But I'm not sure how someone who couldn't manage without that ยฃ45 a year of relief is supposed to now manage with ยฃ630 a year less in their pocket?
The ยฃ630 is a 1.8% levy on income to fund a National Care Service costed at ยฃ18bn a year. On a ยฃ35,000 salary it's ยฃ630, on ยฃ50,000 it's ยฃ900.
It's charged as a percentage of your income.
It's collected out of your income.
It is not, apparently, income tax, because they're going to call it a levy.
It also only applies to taxpayers over 34... So you turn 35 and take a pay cut, at the exact age most people are stretched on a mortgage with childcare costing more than the mortgage.
But the UKs ACTUALLY problem? Spending is too high. And it's too high in ways that are fixable if anyone was willing to challenge the status quo rather than buy more votes with handouts.
This is where ยฃ1,383bn goes this year:
Health, ยฃ269.6bn
Pensions, ยฃ236.3bn
Welfare, ยฃ204.0bn
Education, ยฃ126.7bn
Debt interest, ยฃ104.6bn
Defence, ยฃ75.2bn
Everything else, ยฃ367.1bn
Health, ยฃ269.6bn: We need mandatory health insurance as an employment benefit and a hybrid model. Everyone hears "insurance" and pictures America, someone bleeding out over a copay, as if no other model exists on earth.
The Netherlands has mandatory private health insurance. Insurers are legally required to accept everyone. They cannot charge you more for being chronically ill. A risk equalisation pool moves money towards the insurers covering the sickest people. It's consistently ranked top three in Europe.
Welfare, ยฃ204.0bn: Income tax raises ยฃ330bn. So almost 2 of every 3 pounds of Income Tax taken from every working person in this country is spoken for by the welfare bill.
Welfare should be for people who cannot work. Disability, genuine incapacity, the people it was built to protect. It has drifted into a general income top-up, and the number that proves it is 4.2 million working age people now claiming at least one health related benefit, up a million since 2019.
Change how we determine eligibility, fix a lot of spending issues immediately.
Pensions, ยฃ236.3bn: The state pension is a Ponzi scheme, and I mean that technically rather than as an insult. There is no fund - the ONS says so plainly. Your National Insurance is not being put aside and invested for your State Pension, It just pays the payouts for last year's pensioners. Yours depends entirely on there being enough workers behind you.
Which, btw, there won't be. The ratio of pensioners to workers goes from 27% to 48% by 2050 (and these estimates are before we've seen the proper impact of AI/automation on jobs.
Australia already fixed this: 12% of earnings into a private fund with your name on it, mandatory, employer paid. It's your money, it compounds, it doesn't need a bigger generation behind you to work.
We could mandate the same tomorrow and let the state pension run down over the next 40 years, eventually saving ยฃ236bn a year.
You can't levy your way out of these problems. A 1.8% charge on everyone over 34 raises ยฃ18bn. It doesn't even cover the interest on our existing debt.
And in the meantime... If we're going to borrow anyway, why is none of it buying anything?
Norway found oil in 1969 and put the money in a fund... That fund is now worth $2.049 trillion. It holds a stake in roughly 1.5% of every listed company on the planet.
We found oil in the same decade and spent it.
The UK's National Wealth Fund is capitalised at ยฃ27.8bn. Norway's is about 73 times bigger.
So where is our position in AI, in data centres, in grid scale renewables, in batteries, in electric vehicles, in any of the things the next fifty years actually runs on? We borrow ยฃ133bn a year and almost none of it buys an asset.
Fix government spending immediately, increase government income over time (without milking people for every penny of 'levy' you can find), and quality of life will genuinely improve as people have more money in their pockets.
The UK has a spending problem, not a tax problem.