114 Responses to Start the Week 17th August 2026

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  1. Emmanuel Goldstein says:
    August 18, 2026 at 10:08 am

    If they get voted in at the next GE, a good move Reform could make would be to publish all the REAL figures and statistics that the government gives out.

    Instead of all the qualifiers such as ‘not in employment and claiming benefits’ to get on to the unemployment figures, fiddling the NHS waiting list numbers or gaslighting us with misleading immigration numbers, in and out, they should get the true numbers and publish them for the week before they take office.
    They can then give out the true figures and statistics starting from this baseline.
    It’s because nobody believes anything the government says anymore.
    Who believes the two inflation percentages we are given?
    WHO believes all this gdp or house building numbers or what a prisoner or immigrant costs each year.
    Nobody does.

    Reform should start all these government figures anew and maybe we can start believing them again. Simple true figures.
    After all, they (Reform) cannot be held responsible for all the previous statistics we are fed so they have nothing to lose by giving us the truth of how things are/were when they took over.

    Another thing they should do is to sack ofcom, the lot of them, and replace them with a neutral panel. If they replaced them with ‘Righties’ they would be just as bad as the liblabcon(green bin) party so it should be a neutral bunch.

    Whichever way you look at it, if Nigel gets in he has a monumental task to clean up parliament (as well as so many other things to do)

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    • tomo says:
      August 18, 2026 at 10:25 am

      The only way they’ll drag the real numbers out of the public sector / civil service blob is by criminalising the provision of deliberately inaccurate figures….

      I shan’t be holding my breath for that to happen.

      I’ve already seen Home Office / Department of Justice refuse FoIs citing blanket / inappropriate FoI exemptions – and heard that staff have been told to resist transparency…

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    • Thatcherrevolutionary says:
      August 18, 2026 at 10:38 am

      Unfortunately everything needs ripped up and started again. The communist cancer has rendered the patient terminal.

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  2. MarkyMark says:
    August 18, 2026 at 10:21 am

    Getting sacked and doing a bad job pays in the long run HA HA HAHA HAHA AA
    “According to the FT, former Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald received a staggering £500,000 payout after Starmer sacked him in February.”
    https://order-order.com/2026/08/18/ex-cabinet-secretary-wormald-handed-500000-payout-after-starmer-sacking/
    Starmer himself will have personally signed it off.

    …………………

    Sir Keir Starmer was granted a bespoke, tax-unregistered pension arrangement when he stepped down as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in 2013. This arrangement exempted his specific pension savings from the standard lifetime allowance cap. Starmer later stated he would support removing this specific tax perk.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65037136

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  3. MarkyMark says:
    August 18, 2026 at 10:26 am

    UK is still discussing if men can go into a women’s toilet ….

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  4. tomo says:
    August 18, 2026 at 10:47 am

    I see the BBC is apparently hiding some details on the 5 lads killed on a motorway in Ireland.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj036d6vj09o

    No mention of masks/balaclavas or their apparent history of vehicle related criminality.

    – might give the wrong impression?

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  5. tomo says:
    August 18, 2026 at 10:53 am

    Yesterday

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  6. tomo says:
    August 18, 2026 at 11:03 am

    C’mon … admit it – you wondered didn’t you?

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