I hope readers can cope with some simple arithmetic. Because it seems that none of our elites – politicians, economists, journalists, the BBC etc etc – are capable of some basic adding and subtracting and even some division and mutiplication. I’ll explain my reasoning as to why I believe the UK is actually in recession and there is no economic growth in simple numbered steps so even a politician, economist or journalist might be able to understand
Step 1: We’re told that the British economy grew by an ‘amazing’ 0.4% in the latest full quarter
Step 2: The UK GDP is about £3 trillion. So the GDP for one quarter would be about £750 billion (£750,000,000,000)
Step 3: Growth of 0.4% on this £750 billion would be around £3 billion (£3,000,000,000)
With me so far?
Now let’s look at just three areas where this £3 billion might have come from.
Area 1: The growth in public-sector employment.
Step 4: There are around 33,000 more public-sector employees (I won’t call them ‘workers’ for reasons you can probably guess)
Step 5: Let’s assume the average annual cost of each employee is about £50,000 – that includes salary, social costs, pension contributions and use of any equipment or office space
Step 6: Then the total cost of these extra 33,000 employees in one quarter would be around £412 million
Area 2: Now let’s add in the increase in the number of illegal migrants
Step 7: There are about 46,000 more illegal migrants in Britain than a year ago.
Step 8: Let’s assume each illegal migrant costs us about £40,000 a year – acccommodation, spending money, food, free phones, legal costs and anything else they want
Step 9: Then the total cost of these 46,000 illegal migrants is £1.84 billion a year – £460 million per quarter
Just these two areas of increased public-sector spending give us just under £900 million of the £3 billion supposed GDP growth.
Area 3: Public-sector wage increases
But there’s a third area of increased public-sector spending – the average 6.3% increase in wages (excluding bonuses) for Britain’s 6.1 million public-sector employees.
Step 10: Total public-sector wages (excluding bonuses) is over £250 billion (£250,000,000,000)
Step 11: Between 2025 and 2026, average pay increase in the public sector was 6.3%. (It was only 2.9% in the private sector)
Step 12: So, 6.3% of £250 billion gives us over £15 billion. Divide that by four to give the spending increase on public-sector wages for one quarter and you get £3.9 billion.
Step 13: The cost of 33,000 more public sector employees plus cost of 46,000 more illegal migrants plus cost of public-sector wage increases gives us somewhere around £4.8 billion of increased public spending. Yet the UK economy’s supposed 0.4% growth only gave around £3 billion.
What does this tell us?
Step 14: I have only covered three areas of increased public spending. You could go further and include the cost of benefits for the 83,000 increase in unemployment, the benefits for the 30,000 increase in NEETS (not in education, employment, or training), the benefits for the 260,000 increase in the number of people claiming to be disabled and the subsidies paid to major industrial energy users to try to give them some limited protection from Mad Ed Miliband’s catastrophic energy policies which have made UK energy prices 3 to 4 times more expensive than energy costs in China and the USA
Step 15: So, I humbly disagree with all the experts and suggest that the UK economy didn’t grow during the last full quarter, it shrank. But the government managed to create the chimera of growth by wasting billions on migrants, the bloated, ever-increasing, ever-overpaid public sector and benefits for those who, for whatever reason, weren’t working.
Step 16: Where did all this extra money come from? Did it come from increased taxes due to flourishing growth in the private sector? Nope. More than one hundred thousand private-sector employees (145,000) lost their jobs in the most recent financial year. So there was a contraction in what one might call the ‘real economy’. The extra money creating the illusion of economic growth came from the government borrowing about £42 billion in the second quarter of 2026 when the economy supposedly grew by £3 billion. Much of the £42 billion borrowed went to paying off the interest on the UK’s total debt of about £2.98 trillion. But there was a little left over to allow the government to increase spending on things like more migrants, more public-sector employment and wage increases, the increase in the numbers unemployed and disabled and the energy subsidies. All these increases in spending are signs of economic failure, not success. But they have resulted in more money entering the British economy thus increasing GDP and so allowing our failing government to claim the British economy was growing.
Conclusion: I’m not an economist. So you can accept or dismiss everything I’ve written above. But it seems to me that, by applying just a little common sense and some simple arithmetic, you reach the inevitable conclusion that there wasn’t any real economic growth at all. In fact, I believe we’ve been in a recession in the ‘real economy’ ever since the first Reeves/Starmer job- and business-destroying horror budget and Labour’s migrant- and public-sector spending spree.
Here’s a ‘jolly’ story you won’t see reported on ‘our’ BBC or any UK mainstream media.
North Carolina Democrat state legislative candidate Shelly Headen (reportedly) posted a Facebook story from a vacation showing her in front of ovens in a German concentration camp memorial, saying, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”
Headen was reportedly visiting Dachau, where the memorial states that 41,500 people were murdered.
In social media photos (which I think are probably genuine, but can’t be sure) Headen is seen smiling as she stands in front of what appears to be crematorium ovens, which were used by the Nazi SS to burn the bodies of Jews and other prisoners who died or were murdered at the camp.
Headen says she is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and business owner “running to restore human decency,” possibly a slightly ironic statement after saying political opponents should be in concentration camps while posing and smiling in front of ovens at a Holocaust memorial site. The apparent call to burn Trump supporters isn’t her only expression of support for violence. In another Facebook post, Headen appears to call for an unspecified terrorist attack against America, writing, “I think our only hope is an attack on US soil… preferably Alabama, Louisiana… where the stupid people are.”
Headon seems to be a fairly feisty lady. She has also faced two domestic assault allegations in which her husband is listed as the “potential victim.”
A pair of what appear to be law enforcement “incident/investigation reports” from 2024 indicate Mrs. Headen was the suspect in both incidents.
In a statement on September 3, Headen said of the domestic violence allegations, “In 2024, during a high-stress time in my marriage, my husband and I had a couple of arguments that escalated. During one argument, my husband grabbed me, and I fell backward and hit my head. In my fear and confusion, I sought support and protection from those I trusted—I called 911.”
That description contradicts police reports, noting two separate law enforcement visits, not one, in both of which she is listed as the suspect and her husband the “potential victim.”
In an age of AI and deliberate misinformation one has to be careful about what one writes. But I’ve seen this story in so many media that it does seem to be accurate.
Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed this little tale of American politics today.
All the ‘experts’ seem to assume that Trump’s Republicans are going to be thrashed in the November Mid-terms. But there is another possibility. The Democratic Socialists like New York’s Mamdani and Seattle’s Katie Wilson and, of course, America’s most intelligent political figure (AOC) have become so extreme in their hatred for anyone who doesn’t share their deranged views that many traditional Democrat supporters won’t vote for them and the Republicans are going to win in November.
As our globalist/Islamist government decides to ban face-masks at (anti-immigration) protests, I thought it would be useful if I provided a brief guide to which face-masks are legal and encouraged and which masks will land you in prison for years.
Here are some government-approved face-masks:
First, a jolly entertaining face-mask which, of course, is legal:
And here’s another face-mask which used to be acceptable:
And here are some face-masks which our loathsome Jew-hating, West-loathing Islamist government actively encourages and hopes will be more widely adopted as Britain turns into Europe’s first Islamic republic:
And, here are some face-masks which our government really likes as our rulers would desperately like Israel to be destroyed and all Jews to be exterminated in order to keep the UK Muslim vote:
And here are some more government-approved face-masks:
And here is the government-recommended face-mask:
But here are some face-masks which are to be banned as they are patriotic and British – everything Burnham and his Jew-hating Labour scumbags despise and wish to eradicate as they try to replace the White British population with violent, often criminal, often rape-obsessed, often uneducated, often unemployable West-hating Third-world garbage:
I hope it is now clear which face-masks are encouraged by Burnham, Rayner, MIliband, Mahmood, the BBC, the Guardian and their open-borders, mass-immigration, Islamophiliac globalist overlords and which face-masks are now illegal.
What percentage of NHS staff do you think aren’t British?
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What percentage of NHS nurses do you think aren’t British?
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What percentage of NHS doctors do you think aren’t British?
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Well, here are the figures. They come from the BBC in-house journal, the Guardian supposed ‘newspaper, so they must be accurate.
For NHS staff in general, 20.4% were non-British.
For Nurses, 30% are non-British nationals.
For doctors, the figure is even more shocking – more than a third of doctors (36.3%) are non-UK nationals.
The head honcho at NHS Employers tells us: “Teams across the NHS are hugely appreciative to their overseas colleagues for their support and contribution.” But he perhaps forgets the huge number of non-British nurses who get into trouble with the NMC (Nursing and MIdwifery Council) and doctors who get into trouble with the GMC (General Medical Council) for incompetence, uselessness, corruption, sexual offences and other problems.
Recently we had Dr Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman, an NHS locum surgeon from Egypt, who carried out a flawed emergency bowel procedure on a young man. It meant the contents of the patient’s bowel, leaving his stomach, were re-deposited back into his stomach through a circular “closed loop”, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) heard. The UK-trained surgeon who investigated this incompetence said this was: “as bad as it gets”. Interestingly, the BBC report referred to Egyptian-born and Egypt-trained Dr Yasser Adly Abdel Rahman as an “Oldham doctor“. Last time I looked, Oldham was not in Egypt. This looks to me to be just another blatant example of the usual BBC gaslighting trying to de-emphasis that the bungling excuse for a doctor was from a useless, corrupt, Third-world country.
Moreover, an independent review published by Great Ormond Street Hospital revealed that consultant orthopaedic surgeon Yaser Jabbar (not a typical British name – yet) harmed 94 children through substandard and botched surgeries between 2017 and 2022. Yaser Jabbar no longer holds a license to practice medicine in the UK and has reportedly relocated to Dubai.
Where do all these wonderful NHS employees come from?
Of the 1,282,623 full-time equivalent (FTE) hospital and community health service staff in England in September 2023 whose nationality was known, 20.4% were non-UK nationals. This was up from 13% in September 2016 and 11.9% in September 2009, when the data series began
The most common nurse and health visitor non-UK nationality is Indian, accounting for 10.1% (37,097) of all FTEs, followed by Filipino 7.7% (28,282), Nigerian 2.5% (9,182) and Irish (1.1%).
Indian was also the most common non-UK nationality among doctors, accounting for 8% (17,280) of all medics, followed by Pakistani 3.7% (7,992), Egyptian 2.9% (6,264) and Nigerian 2.0% (4,320).
It has long been known (but covered up by ‘our’ NHS?) that the tests foreign nurses must take before being allowed to work in the UK have been plagued by widespread cheating and corruption. It seems that NIgerian nurses have been some of the worst culprits. Though this is hardly surprising knowing what a corrupt hell-hole Nigeria is.
As for doctors, I haven’t been able to find any estimates on how many have bought or bribed or (for female doctors – f*cked?) their way to qualification. But I do know that after a particularly horrendous PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) crash, a Pakistani government investigation found that around a third of PIA pilots weren’t qualified to fly planes as they had obtained their pilots licences through corruption and cheating. There’s no reason to believe that a similar situation doesn’t exist in the Pakistani medical schools.
According to the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, India, where most of the NHS’s foreign doctors come from, is slightly less corrupt than Pakistan. So hopefully a greater percentage of Indian doctors working in ‘our’ NHS are actually qualified.
Meanwhile, it sems that thousands of UK-trained and thus probably competent British doctors have emigrated to places like Australia, New Zealand and Canada An estimated 18,000 UK-trained doctors are currently practicing overseas, which is about one in seven of the total.
Still, diversity is our strength. So, no doubt having so many (sometimes unqualified) nurses and doctors (from some of the world’s most corrupt countries) in our NHS has made our NHS better?
In its latest report, the RNLI boasted that it had saved 352 lives. To save these 352 lives, the RNLI spent about £250,000,000. That’s about £700,000 per life saved.
We are usually led to believe that the RNLI consists mainly of volunteers. But perhaps many people don’t know that the RNLI has 1,879 full-time staff and in the summer months this goes up to 2,438 when seasonal staff are included. Of these, 11 get paid over £100,000 a year and 137 get more than £60,000 a year. The average cost of an RNLI full-time employee is about £55,000 a year. That’s pretty generous for the supposed ‘charity’ sector. Perhaps the RNLI is rather more charitable to its own staff than most people imagine?
But a possibly more worrying figure is that, in spite of the RNLI’s lifeboats being mostly staffed by volunteers, the RNLI’s staff cost £111,100,000 a year. So, almost half (44%) of the money we give to the RNLI (£250,000,000) goes to pay for its staff.
The RNLI makes it very clear what its mission is:
“The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue”.
However, under its (IMHO) woke, (IMHO) UK-hating management, it seems that the RNLI has added a little sideline to its life-saving activities – providing a concierge and ferry service to illegal Third-world criminals, rapists and murderers whose lives were never in peril on the sea.
I believe it’s time for us to stop donating to the RNLI – an organisation which has (IMHO) lost sight of the reason for its existence.
In yesterday’s blog I tried to explain that the migrants supposedly ‘rescued’ by the RNLI weren’t in peril and so there was no reason for the RNLI to provide a concierge and taxi service to bring the illegals to Britain. In fact, the RNLI managers involved should (IMHO) be prosecuted for assisting people smuggling.
Yesterday, there was a massive coordinated media pile-on against anyone daring to criticise the RNLI. But most of the RNLI sycophants failed to mention that the illegals were never in peril on the sea. Once again, the mainstream media is taking us for fools and gaslighting us.
And now for some good news?
Is there anything that works in this country anymore?
Air traffic control – run by incompetents, keeps failing and back-up seems non-existent
NHS – 7+ million on a waiting list, only reduces as people die
Healthcare – best British doctors emigrating, dodgy Third-world (Egypt, Sudan, Pakistan etc) ‘doctors’ pouring in
Education – woke DEI interpretation of what needs to be taught, propaganda not knowledge
Defence – underfunded to a ridiculous degree
Navy – many more admirals than ships
RAF – DEI prevents hiring of the most competent pilots
Border control – farcical to non-existent
Population – rapidly being replaced by Third-world invaders
Transport – pothole capital of Europe
Major projects – always disasters costing billions more and taking years more than planned
Police – woke nonsense. You’re more likely to be arrested for stopping criminal behaviour
Free speech – 62,000 arrested in last 5 years for hurty words on social media
Energy – the most expensive in Europe if not the world. Net Zero economic suicide
Farming – it’s too expensive to even be worth planting crops, better to plant useless solar panels and even more useless wind turdbines
Politics – Labour sixth-form student politics dominated by DEI, Woke, hatred of Britain
Water – sewage in the rivers, burst pipes, massive dividends to the owners
Planning – bats, newts, DEI, absurd green policies
Civil service – bloated, expensive, not civil and no service
Prisons – not enough spaces, can’t build new prisons, prison officers being boned by the prisoners
Law – two-tier, risk averse DEI woke, seems to be on the side of the criminals
Tax and HMRC – total chaos
Crime – out of control thugs who seem unstoppable
Rape – legalised for certain demographic groups
Benefits – out of control, fraud rampant
Disabilities – one in four people (16.8 million) claiming to be disabled
Jobs – being destroyed by Labour’s (Reeves’s and Starmer’s) job taxes
Incompetence – an essential requirement to achieve senior positions in the public sector
Government spending – wrong strategy for growth, excessive taxation
Economy – we’re bankrupt
World view – grovel to those who hate us, alienate our friends and allies
But apart from these ‘minor’ issues, everything looks rosy, wouldn’t you say?
“The RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue”
That, of course, brings us to the recent ‘rescue’ of around 120 illegal Third-world imigrants brought into Britain by the RNLI a couple of days ago.
From what I understand, the 120 illegal Third-world migrants were never in peril on the sea. Therefore there was never any need for the RNLI to intervene. Here are a few facts:
French navy boats helped one mega-dinghy carrying 120 illegals reach British waters after its engine broke down shortly after leaving Cherbourg.
The boat got into dfficulty just a few miles off the Fench coast when a motor failed – thus in French territorial waters
This led to five French rescue vessels and two helicopters helping the 120 asylum seekers on the nearly 70-mile journey. A French Navy H-160 helicopter and a Dragon 50 civil security chopper joined the huge operation
The French asked the boat’s occupants if they wanted to be rescued and not one wanted rescue. They all wanted to continue their journey to Britain
A second outboard motor was made to work, so the boat could continue on its voyage to Britain
Then the RNLI launched two lifeboats to ensure the illegal Third-world migrants could be brought to Britain
This was not a job for the increasingly woke RNLI. The RNLI was not rescuing those in peril on the sea. Instead it was providing a free concierge and ferry service helping people smugglers get rich and burdening British taxpayers with massive costs providing luxury care foi 120 illegals who should never have been allowed into our country.
Maybe it’s time to rename the RNLI as the ‘Royal National Lifeboats for Illegals’? And maybe it’s time to stop donating anything to the (IMHO) UK-hating, woke, anti-British RNLI until they understand that they’re meant to be saving those in peril on the sea and not providing a free ferry service helping multimillionaire people smugglers become even richer?
As the Third-world invasion of Europe and Britain continues (increases?) we should expect a further rise in more exotic types of criminality.
Hacked off? No, hacked to death
Three men have been jailed for life after they hacked a man to death with an ‘arsenal of knives’.
Gregory Castillo Volquez was stabbed 22 times and beaten with a crutch and a nail-embedded plank in Haringey, north London, on January 13 last year. He had been out drinking when the 36-year-old was attacked out of sight from CCTV by Benito Ramirez Kones, 20, Carlos Akum Metumbe, 22, and Luiggi Perelli Santana, also 22.
While Mr Volquez lay dying in the street, his murderers ‘went into the night’ before attempting to flee the country. Metumbe and Santana, who were Spanish and Italian nationals respectively, reached Spain while Kones – who is also a Spanish national – did not leave Britain. Kones was arrested in Swansea last year while Metumbe and Santana were extradited in August and October last year respectively.
Here are the three ‘enrichers’ sentenced for the murder:
And here are some grooming gang chappies:
And here are some Brighton Beach rapists:
How lucky we are to have welcomed these extremely ‘enriching’ individuals into our country
Dolphin bashing – a new sport from Africa?
Then we have the life-enhancing story from Ceuta. Possibly getting bored from raping, robbing homes and defecating in the street, the latest bunch of enrichers have celebrated their arrival in Ceuta by beating a baby dolphin to death:
Looking at these two crimes and many more of their ilk, is it possible that some cynical people might conclude that the ‘enrichers’ being encouraged to come to open-borders Britain in their tens of thousands every year really aren’t the same as us?
Meanwhile, in Britain and Ceuta, the police do everything they can to bring in more illegal migrants while brutally clamping down on any protestors worried about the ‘enricher’ invasion. The British police used to be respected around the world. Now they are despised by some/many/most (delete as appropriate) people in the UK.
This report comes from the world-respected, migrant-hugging BBC, not some anti-migrant, right-wing, fascist, xenophobic (patriotic?) conspiracy pushers. It appears that the party is just getting started in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
The BBC tells us:
At least 72,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta on 30 and 31 July and although most have returned, as many as 5,000 remain – leading to unrest in the autonomous city in North Africa and a crisis for Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
And it seems that some of those adorable, dusky, highly-educated, law-abiding migrants are having a bit of fun:
Spanish prosecutors say 23 sexual assaults, including nine against children, have been recorded in Ceuta since the mass influx of migrants into the Spanish exclave at the end of July.
That number meant there was almost one case every day, Ceuta’s chief prosecutor Silvia Rojas said. She told El País newspaper migrant girls were “particularly vulnerable because of their irregular status in the territory”.
But these reported sexual attacks may only be the proverbial ‘tip of the iceberg’:
Rojas said the influx had led to an exponential increase in sexual assault, and many victims did not file a report, either out of fear of because of their “current situation in Ceuta”. The Spanish Society of Epidemiology said the border crisis had highlighted the difficulty in detecting and tackling violence against migrant women and girls.
One 24-year-old woman from Morocco told the BBC she had“put her life in danger” by travelling to Ceuta, and described being sexually assaulted while sleeping among a group of men and women. “I was shocked… If I had known this, I wouldn’t have come.”
Emergency doctor Susana Ascaso said last month her department at Ceuta University Hospital had treated several sexual assault victims, including one who was just 10 years old.
What are Ceuta’s police doing about this disaster? Yup, you guessed it – they’re firing rubber bullets at any Spanish protesting about the migrant invasion. That’s pretty much the same situation that you see in Britain where our rulers do everything possible to attract illegal migrannts to Britain and then help them to cross the Channel to get here while brutally cracking down on any White British who dare protest against the invasion of our country.
With Andrew ‘I’m your best mate Andy’ Burnham’s open-borders, let-them-all-in policies, this multiculturally-enriching partying will soon be coming to a street near you. Though for tens of thousands of mostly underage White British girls it arrived decades ago. But it was successfully covered up by Labour politicians, councillors, social workers and police, some of who reportedly joined in the ‘fun’.
By the way, I’ve got a real scorcher of a blog for the weekend. So hopefully you’ll find time to pop into snouts-in-the-trough just for a few minutes during the weekend.
We’ve always had some fairly unpleasant criminals in Britain from Jack the Ripper to the Moors Murderers to the Yorkshire Ripper to Levi Bellfield. But one could get the impression that certain types of fairly gruesome crimes seem to be increasing. There are the mass rapes of tens of thousands of mostly underage, mostly working-class White girls covered up by Labour politicians, councils and police, mass stabbings (including the especially ghastly Southport attack), machete fights in the street, bombings at concerts or on trains and the tube, beheadings and, of course, ‘honour killings’. And now we have a newborn baby being killed ‘having suffered 33 wounds from 15 separate stabbings’.
Often, when there’s a particularly awful crime, we’re asked not to speculate about who the perpetrators might be. For example, the BBC reports some senior plod investigating the recent baby murder saying: “We would ask the public to avoid speculating and posting information online about this case while the legal process takes it course.”
Experience suggests that, each time we’re told not to speculate, this means that the suspected criminal/s is/are from one of our multi-culturally-enriching communities. ‘Welsh choirboys’ are one of these communities apparently:
We now learn that those accused of the baby murder are Slovakian. However, they don’t appear to be Slovakian doctors or scientists or architects as such people would tend to be highly educated and speak fairly good English. These ‘Slovakian’ individuals reportedly needed an interpreter. This has led some people to speculate. And they have speculated that the ‘Slovakians’ – Andrea Skopova, 20, formerly of Robey Street, Sheffield, and Peter Horvath, 19, Nina Horvathova, 37, and Peter Horvath, 38, all of Holywell Heights and a 15-year old girl who cannot be named for legal reasons – may actually be Romany gypsies. For example, Professor Google tells us: “Horvath is not originally a Romani name, but it is one of the most common surnames used by Romani people in Central and Eastern Europe”.
So, next time we are asked to “not speculate” on the origins of someone who has committed a particularly unpleasant crime, it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that the person or people don’t have names like Davis or Brown or Smith and may even be from one of the multi-culturally-enriching communities we have so generously welcomed into our once great, once low-crime country.
David Craig, on September 16th, 2026
