Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. This weekend’s blog is about a subject I never imagined I would ever write about. It’s about a multi-culturally enriching custom I’d never really considered. The only reason I feel it worth mentioning is that there seem to have been two reports within just a few days of this happening on planes which were thousands of miles away from each other. So, this multi-culturally enrichiching custom may be far more common that most normal people would like to imagine.
Flight from Dubai to Bangkok
A Thai mother has alleged that a Pakistani passenger sexually assaulted her as she slept beside her four-year-old daughter on a six-hour flight from Dubai to Bangkok.
Beaut Pimpaporn, 33, said the alleged incident occurred on flight FZ-1583, after she boarded a connecting flight in Dubai following a trip to Milan, Italy. The aircraft landed at Don Mueang International Airport. Ms Pimpaporn said she had fallen asleep with her daughter on her lap and woke to find the passenger beside her allegedly performing a sex act and touching her buttock. She also noticed a wet stain on her trousers. I could show you the photo of this wet stain but will spare you. The ‘wet stain’ turned out to be the Pakistani gentleman’s semen.
Ms Pimpaporn said cabin crew questioned Mr Ali, initially in Arabic, and that he first denied the allegation before admitting his conduct. She said he cried, knelt and asked for forgiveness, while several people believed to be travelling with him as part of a Pakistani tour group also asked her to let him go. You can understand why the other Pakistani passengers felt Mr Ali had done nothing wrong as this multi-culturally enriching custom is probably considered normal for citizens from that wonderful country. After all, we’ve seen how many thousands of pre-teen and teenage British girls have been enriched by rape gangs mainly consisting of enrichers from Pakistan:
Labour councillors and Labour-adoring social workers, teachers, prosecutors and police seemingly didn’t notice what was actually going on.
Anyway, the woman fortunately felt that crime deserved punishment and wrote about Mr Ali’s punishment on her Facebook: “If you commit a crime, you have to face the consequences. Three years in prison, a 120,000 baht fine and blacklisted from entering Thailand ever again.”
Looks like Mr Ali will be staying in Thailand rather longer than he had planned.
Flight from Dubai to Newcastle
A biotechnology engineer who allegedly performed a sex act while sitting next to a mother and her child on board an Emirates flight has been spared jail. B….. L……., 27, from Kerala, India, has been convicted of exposing his crown jewels on the long-haul flight travelling from Dubai to the UK. The engineer, who has a Master’s qualification, was sat in one of the three seats in a row, the other two occupied by a mother and her baby son.
A court heard that, as the woman got up to make her child a feed, she noticed that the 27-year-old had a blanket over his lap. Initially, the mother from Australia feared that the Indian gentleman was concealing a weapon. (This might remind readers of the well-known Mae West quote: “Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?“)
The woman realised that the highly-educated Indian gentleman was performing a sex act (having a wank). The Indian enricher was reported to cabin crew and arrested upon arrival at Newcastle International Airport. The victim said she had been ‘deeply distressed’ by the incident but had tried not to get too alarmed on the flight for the sake of her son. The alleged masturbator was sentenced to an 18-month community order, with 150 hours of unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay a total of £914 in costs and a victim surcharge. Lucky for this Indian gentleman that he wasn’t on a flight to Thailand where he would have received a real punishment for his mile-high masturbation.
It was reported that the Indian gentleman still denies that he committed the offence.
So ladies, be careful if you’re sitting next to an enricher on a plane. You never know what you’ll see and what bodily fluids may be spaffed onto your clothes.
Andy’s going on a summer holiday
It seems that, after a mere two weeks as our greatest ever Prime MInister, the Manchester Messiah, Andrew Burnham, is off on his summer holidays:
(I admit I copied this idea from watching Simon Webb’s brilliant History Debunked videos. So apologies if you’ve already watched the History Debunked video)
Is Britain a ‘Nation’?
Here’s Professor Google’s definition of the word “Nation”
A nation is a large group of people united by common traits like culture, language, history or ancestry
Key Parts of a Nation
Shared Culture: People use the same language, celebrate the same customs, or hold similar beliefs.
Common History: The group shares a past, including stories, heroes, and past struggles.
Belonging: Members feel a deep connection to each other, even if they never meet.
I hardly need to write anything more. But I will.
Shared culture? As White indigenous British are likely to become a minority in their own country by somewhere around 2055 to 2060, we can hardly claim that the people living in Britain now, and those who will be living in Britain in 25 years time, have a shared culture. I will say no more about this for fear of being arrested by the Starmer/Burnham thought police
Common history? Our elites seem to hate British history. Britain, more than any other country in history, brought civilisation, democracy and the rule of law to countries around the world. But our elites try to make us ashamed of our history, they try to denigrate many of our greatest scientists, engineers and statesmen and try to trick us into believing that nonentities from some of the world’s most miserable, backwards hell-holes have achieved just as much as great figures from our historical past. And anyway, with so many people from different countries invading Britain, how can the population have a ‘common history’?
Belonging – Feeling a deep connection to each other? You’ve got to be joking! Instead of integrating, millions of those already in Britain and coming to Britain despise us and even hate us. They feel contempt for our laws, our freedoms, our democracy and seem intent on imposing their utterly corrupt, primitive, Third-world practices and beliefs on us. They want to conquer us, not live in harmony with us by accepting our way of life.
Is Britain ‘great’?
Stop laughing! I’ll try to be serious. Britain once ruled about a third of the world’s population, once had the greatest navy and military and was once an economic powerhouse. What are we now? A tiny overcrowded island. Once a navy which ‘ruled the waves’, struggled to find even one clapped-out old destroyer to send to Cyprus when our airbase there was attacked. We’re committing economic suicide with the ludicrous net zero. We’re committing societal suicidal with unlimited, ‘refugees welcome’ open-borders immigration as millions of the world’s often uneducated, often unemployable, often criminal flotsam pour into our country. Oh, and of course, we’re bankrupt paying about £110 billion a year in debt interest while enthusiastically increasing our debts to pay for the immigrants, the idle, the skivers and a bloated, bureaucratic, useless, work-from-home public sector that pays itself ever more while delivering ever less.
Conclusion: Britain is not a ‘nation’ and is certainly not ‘great’. It is just a small island where competing groups live uncomfortably beside each other and where we’re likely to see civil war breaking out between some of those groups when certain groups of invaders feel they have sufficient power to subjugate us and take over our country.
It seems to have been a busy week for our multi-cultural enriching friends. In Athens an Afghan man was arrested for allegedly killing a British woman, stuffing her body in a suitcase (as one does) and dumping it in an abandoned building. And in Ireland an American heiress, who had reportedly championed enriching immigration, was murdered allegedly by her Jordanian boyfriend.
We can expect more of such enrichment as our rulers scramble to replace us with much more worthy people from Africa’s and the Middle East’s most backward, corrupt, failed-state, worst hell-holes.
How to cut months from your NHS waiting times
(I’ll leave this blog up for a couple of days as it might be useful to some readers, their families, their friends or even, if they are feeling magnanimous, their enemies)
To be treated by an NHS hospital, you first need a referral from your GP. Once you have that referral, there are usually four main stages in getting treatment:
An appointment with a specialist – oncologist, cardiologist, neurologist or some other ‘ologist’
Having the tests recommended by your ‘ologist’
A new appointment with an ‘ologist’ to review the results of the tests and for your ‘ologist’ to book the proposed treatment
Getting the treatment
The time between each of these stages can easily be 6 to 8 weeks. For example, when my GP wrote a referral for me to see a cardiologist, she said that I should contact her if I hadn’t heard from my local hospital in 6 or 7 weeks. The NHS eighteen-week waiting target is a constitutional standard stating that 92% of patients should start non-urgent, consultant-led hospital treatment within 18 weeks of a GP referral.
Here’s something many people may not know. If you decide to pay for a consultation with an NHS ‘ologist’s’ private practice, the first consultation will normally cost £250 to £300. Usually it’s £300. However, the second consultation is often much cheaper – £150 to £200. With the cardiologist I booked to see at my local hospital’s heart centre, the first consultation was £300 and the second one £150. If you do book to see an ‘ologist’ paying yourself, waiting times for an appointment are often just a few days instead of the NHS’s 6 to 8 weeks. So you’ve possibly (depending on your condition and your local hospital’s waiting times) already cut 5 to 6 weeks off your treatment time. In my case, by paying privately, I saw a cardiologist 3-4 days after my GP referral rather than the NHS’s 6 to 7 weeks. And, if you’re worried about a possibly serious condition or even unable to work, those 5 to 6 weeks you’ve cut from your waiting time will make a huge change to your life.
Then, of course, you have stage 3 in the process – A new appointment with an ‘ologist’ to review the results of the tests and for your ‘ologist’ to book the proposed treatment. Once you know the date(s) of stage 2 – Having the tests recommended by your ‘ologist’ – you can already book a second appointment with your ‘ologist’ perhaps targetting 2 or 3 days after your tests to give the ‘ologist’ time to review the results. Hey presto, magic. You may have just (depending on your condition and your local hospital’s waiting times) cut another 5 to 6 weeks off your treatment time and it will only have cost you about £450 for the two ‘ologist’ appointments.
You can, of course, go further. If your tests are fairly simple like just one x-ray, you could also pay for that yourself and cut even more time off your treatment time. But if your tests involve scans or cutting off bits of you for biopsy or having unpleasant things shoved down your throat or up your derriere, you should probably get that done on ‘our’ NHS.
The most expensive part of your treatment will usually be stage 4 – getting the hospital treatment. You’ve paid plenty tax during your life and so should probably get the treatment on ‘our’ NHS. In my case, the treatment would have cost around £10,000 if done privately, so I had it on ‘our’ NHS.
Of course, the amount of time you could cut off your treatment time will depend on your condition and your local hospital’s waiting times. But hopefully you can see that by paying privately for the two main consultations with your ‘ologist’, you often can cut weeks or even months off the time from referral to treatment.
You’ll all have seen the scenes from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco. A complete breakdown of borders and an invasion of up to 60,000 of our African neighbours in just one day. This was a socialist’s wet dream.
Here’s a tough question: In April Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, succeded in getting the country’s parliament to pass a law giving an amnesty and citizenship to a suspected 500,000 illegal migrants. At least 1,300,000 have applied. Ooops, it seems the Spanish socialist slightly underestimated the number of illegals in his country. So, here’s the question: Do you think this amnesty will:
discourage illegal migration?
have no effect on illegal migration?
encourage illegal migration?
To help you answer this really really tough question, which our rulers seem unable to answer, here’s a very simple chart showing the population growth of Europe vs Africa up to 2024 and projected forward to 2100:
By 2100 the population of Europe is projected to fall by about 150 million and the population of Africa is projected to increase by around 1.5 billion. I wonder where all those extra Africans will go? Will they stay in their own failed-state, impoverished, excrement-covered hell-hole countries or will they head for much wealthier benefits Europe?
Meanwhile, I believe we are being gaslit about the reality of the Ceuta invasion. For example, the ludicrously useless Times supposed ‘newspaper’ illustrated the Ceuta invasion with a photo of a woman who had swum into the Spanish enclave. But I suspect that about 59,995 of the 60,000 invaders were single men.
Moreover, few of our mainstream media have been entirely honest about the scale of looting of shops, home invasions and street defecation by the invaders. I don’t know if the rapes have started yet, but I imagine that will soon be the next scandal to be covered up
I attach below a YouTube video by comedian Leo Kearse about the invasion. There are a few issues Kearse brings out much more passionately than I could:
At around 2 minutes into the video how the invasion has been organised by the Moroccan authorities
At around 2 minutes 40 seconds how some invaders admit to being criminals and even murderers
How the Spanish police and military just stand around doing nothing to prevent the invasion
At around 3 minutes how Spanish socialists in the European Parliament are welcoming the invasion as part of their plan to replace European supposed ‘fascists’ and ‘racists’ with millions of wonderful multi-cultural enrichers from Africa
The current constant hyperventilating news reports about the ‘fires from Hell’ ravaging parts of Spain, France, Italy, Greece and even Britain reminded me of the 1968 song “Fire” by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (link at the end of this blog).
Arthur Brown sang: “I am the god of hellfire and I bring you FIRE”. But who are the new ‘gods of hellfire?’ Who or what are causing all the current wildfires? It’s obvious that there are two main conditions which have made today’s wildfires so destructive:
a wet winter led to more vegetation growth
a very hot dry spell has increased the likelihood of fires spreading
But neither of these conditions explain how the fires started in the first place. Most news reports tell us that fires “broke out”. But most of our media seems spectacuraly uninterested in what or who caused these fires to “break out”. It might be due to spontaneous combustion? Professor Googles tells us that: spontaneous combustion happens through self-heating, caused by slow internal chemical reactions like oxidation or bacterial fermentation that build up heat faster than it can escape. To an ignoramus like myself, that doesn’t seem to be the likely cause of most of the current wildfires.
Another theory is that it is us humans who have caused most or even all the wildfires. The Daily Telegraph seems to point at this possibility in a report:
Since the beginning of the month, 184 people have been arrested in connection with wildfires across France. Five have already been handed jail sentences, and 15 are awaiting trial.
One of the arrested seems to have been extremely ‘productive’:
In the department of Var in south-eastern France, a 23-year-old man is in police custody for allegedly starting 10 fires. CCTV cameras helped police identify the man, who is accused of setting fires on the edge of forests while travelling between towns for several days on his motorbike.
In Spain a construction worker is being prosecuted because:
The police have alleged he carried out work without a permit, and the excavator was not fitted with proper fire-extinguishing equipment. Firefighters at the scene called for air assistance as the flames spread into a deep ravine, but the blaze soon became uncontrollable. The inferno ravaged 193 square miles, an area about the size of Leeds, alongside a smaller wildfire, forcing some 90,000 residents to flee towns and villages.
That’s a pretty impressive fire allegedly caused by just one allegedly careless person.
A study in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) found that in the USA
Human-started wildfires accounted for 84% of all wildfires, tripled the length of the fire season, dominated an area seven times greater than that affected by lightning fires, and were responsible for nearly half of all area burned.
Had any of Europe’s wildfires been caused by lightning strikes, I feel sure that our intrepid climate reporters like the BBC’s (IMHO) ‘rodent-featured’ Justin Lowrat would have told us. So it would not be unreasonable to assume that all Europe’s fires were caused either by human stupidity or by human criminality.
Would it perhaps be informative if our overexcited reporters spent just a little time investigating the cause of the wildfires – who are the new ‘gods of hellfire’ – in addition to reporters’ apocalyptic hyperventilating about the scale of the fires?
Drought or just not enough water?
We now hear that much of England and all of normally rainy Wales have been declared to be in ‘drought’. That’s not unexpected given that it hasn’t rained in some areas for almost a month. But is the lack of rain the main cause of the water shortages?
The last major reservoir built in England was Carsington Water in Derbyshire, which was completed in 1992. At the time, the population of England was officially around 48 million. The population of England is now officially about 59 million. It could possibly be the case that increasing the population by 11 million without building a single new reservoir for 34 years might put a strain on the amount of water available?
And then we have leakage. Around a quarter of all water provided by our water companies is lost due to leakage:
So, is there a drought? Absolutely. Are current water shortages purely due to ‘Global Boiling’ climate change as most mainstream media ‘news’ reports would have us believe? Absolutely not. A failure to build new reservoirs at a time of massive population increase and excessive leakage are also important contributing factors.
Incidentally, in my previous blog, I recounted the tale of how it took me 9 weeks and more than 12 reports to get my (IMHO) utterly useless and incompetent local council to deal with a water leak near my home which (I calculated) has lost more than 16,000 litres of water during those 9 weeks.
You’ll all know about lightbulb jokes. They’re a classic style of joke that use the question “How many [group] does it take to change a lightbulb?” to make fun of the traits or habits of different people. Well. I’ve got my own version now: “How many useless council bureaucrats does it take to turn off one tap?”
This story from my boring little life is going to sound trivial. But please bear with me as perhaps this story indicates why our taxes keep increasing while public ‘services’ keep getting worse?
A shower on the local beach promenade has been leaking water for at least 9 weeks. The leak is quite small and I estimated that water is being lost at a rate of about 100ml every 30 seconds. Doesn’t sound like much? Well this equates to 288 litres of water a day, 2,016 litres a week – 18,144 litres in the 9 weeks I know the shower has been leaking:
I have reported this leak to the council beach employees at least six times. But they just laugh and say it’s nothing to do with them. So nothing happens to stop the leak
I also have reported the leak six times on the council’s on-line leak reports form and got just one automated response a few weeks ago. But nothing happened to stop the leak.
I reported the leak to a Dorset Water leaks repairman I saw ‘working’ at a beach toilet block. His answer – there was nothing he could do until he had the correct paperwork and a job number. So I naively suggested he could at least report the leak to the relevant department at the council. He looked at me with total astonishment and then explained very slowly, as I was clearly an idiot, that his job was not reporting leaks but only repairing leaks and he obviously couldn’t do that without the correct paperwork and a job number.
On Monday I reported the leak to a local councillor and she reported it to some operations manager at the council. Then on Tuesday I got an email from someone at the council acknowledging my report of a problem with a beach hut and an assurance the council was developing a strategy to deal with the beach hut problem. I had never reported any problem with a beach hut, so this email was complete gibberish.
Then yesterday, there was finally a breakthrough. My phone rang and some council employee said they were contacting me about the water leak I had reported. ‘Eureka’, I thought. Finally some action. Then the council employee said that he was standing outside my home and couldn’t see any sign of a water leak. I was incredulous at the incompetence and asked why on earth he was standing outside my home when I had reported that a beach promenade shower was leaking. This was one of those moments when you despair about the future of the human race. Apparently nobody had told this individual that the leak was from a beachside shower and not at my home.
I thought Britain was facing a water shortage and therefore preventing a beachside shower leaking 2,016 litres of precious water a week would be a priority for my council. Clearly I was mistaken.
Moreover, all that someone needed to do to stop the leak was to turn off the nearby tap controlling the water to the shower. I could have done it. But I was concerned that the tap looked quite corroded and, if I tried to force it, this might make the situation worse. That’s why I believed someone from the useless council should do it. It just never occurred to me that getting a council to turn one simple tap off would require 9 weeks, 13 reports and heaven knows how many utterly incompetent local council employees.
Perhaps this is why nothing in Britain works anymore?
I have just done a Google search on ‘protests at Isfahan executions’. In the first five pages of results I could only find one UK mainstream media report about how there were massive protests in the Iranian city of Isfahan when the brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) yesterday publicly executed two men arrested after the January 2026 protests. The execution by hanging was televised in Iran to let the Iranian people understand what would happen to them if they dared express any dissatisfaction with the worse than medieval Islamic regime.
That report was in the Daily Telegraph. I won’t give a link to the Telegraph report as I imagine it is behind a paywall.
In spite of the Islamists’ brutality, there were massive protests by the crowd and the IRGC forces responded with tear gas, shotguns and snipers killing several people.
If you weren’t a Telegraph subscriber (or if you don’t watch Tousi TV on YouTube), you probably wouldn’t know this even happened. It certainly wasn’t mentioned on the Trump-hating, Islamophiliac BBC.
But I’ve noticed a trend in the last few months of the UK mainstream media trying to paint Iran as the victim and the US and Israel as the aggressors in the current Middle East war. For example, on several occasions, the BBC and ITV have referred to the IRGC as the “Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps” suggesting that it is some kind of patriotic Iranian armed force just like the British armed forces. By not using the real title the “Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps”, our media hope to cover up that the IRGC are a bunch of oppressive, end-of-days religious cultists who are a danger to all of humanity.
Shame on our media (except the Daily Telegraph) for covering up yet another example of the Iranian Islamists’ hideous brutality.
It seems that every news programme at the moment begins with the European wildfires as hyperventilating ‘journalists’, like the BBC’s beloved and ever trustworthy Justin Lowrat, tell us that never before have there been such high levels of wildfires. And our mainstream media weather presenters predict ever more apocalyptic heatwaves:
Yes it has been a hot summer. But are Europe’s wildfires really at a “historically high” level?
The ‘Not A Lot Of People Know That’ website provides real data, rather than opinions, suggesting that this year’s wildfires are nothing out of the ordinary.
(Just click on the heading “Wildfires in France” below to see the charts of area burned by year for the whole of the EU and France)
I’ll leave it up to you to decide who you believe – the BBC, C4 News, Sky News etc or the ‘Not A Lot Of People Know That’ actual data of the extent of wildfires burn.
And just one final small point. We seldom/never get any information on how the main wildfires started. I believe one started when a car caught fire, another was due to a woman who was arrested for arson and a third was started by scumbags who tied burning rags to the tails of some cats. Whether these stories are true, I don’t know. But it would be rather jolly if the Justin Lowrats of the mainstream media did make an effort to explain to us plebs whether the fires are natural or are actually caused by idiots and criminals.
Today I’m going to rewrite a blog I wrote 6 years ago about the utter stupidity of building HS2 in a tiny country like Britain:
Ask the wrong questions – you get the wrong answer
Let me bore you with why I think the idiots in Westminster have blundered into yet another horrifically expensive disaster.
There are two questions our politicians should have asked when considering building the catastrophically expensive and unsuitable HS2:
Question 1: Do we need more rail capacity between the South and North of England?
The answer is probably yes, although new communication options may mean that in the 20 to 30 years it takes to build the HS2 disaster, people will be doing less physical travelling and more on-line communication. But let’s for a moment accept that there is a need for more rail capacity from South to North. Then there’s a second question:
Question 2: Does that train line need to be ‘high speed’?
Now let me explain why it is totally ludicrous to build a high-speed train in a tiny country like England
I’ll make this part of my blog today simple so, were any politicians to be reading it, even they might understand.
France is a big country – about 640,000 km2. The UK is a small country – about 242,000 km2. England is an even smaller country – 130,000 km2. France has an extensive high-speed rail network – the TGV. It makes sense to have high-speed trains in a large country. It doesn’t make sense to have high-speed trains in a small country.
Now let’s go a bit deeper. The French train route from Paris to Lyon to Marseilles can probably be seen as comparable to the UK train route from London to Birmingham to Manchester in terms of how it connects major cities. But the differences in distances are huge. Paris to Lyon is 292 miles, whereas London to Birmingham is only 128 miles. And Lyon to Marseilles is 488 miles, whereas Birmingham to Manchester is just 86 miles. In fact, the distance from Birmingham to Manchester is so short that the train would probably have to slow down as soon as it reached its ‘high speed’:
The much greater distances in France justify a high-speed rail network. But squandering over £100bn on cutting just a few minutes off the train time from London to Birmingham and then even fewer minutes off the train journey from Birmingham to Manchester is utterly ludicrous.
What is the best and most economical way of delivering that extra capacity?
As we had no need for a new ‘high speed’ (199 mph) line, the increase in capacity could have been delivered at much lower cost. For example, modernising signalling on the existing line might allow more trains to run on the existing track. Alternatively, building a traditional line along the same route as the current train line would have been a much cheaper option. HS2 will be much more expensive than a new traditional line because high-speed lines have totally different engineering requirements such as longer straight sections and much higher performance requirements. Moreover, high-speed trains are much more expensive than traditional Intercity 125s.
But our worthless politicians didn’t ask these two simple questions. Our politicians got the two questions mixed up together and so got the wrong answer.
There are many better things the Government could do with £100bn+ than the ridiculously unnecessary HS2 (vanity?) project. They could, for example, have just built another conventional (125 mph) line and maybe saved £40bn or more.
But that would have been sensible and therefore not something our dumb-arse stupid politicians would have considered.
Here’s a story I don’think any of our mainstream media will, be covering.
Have you ever wondered why our supposed regulators – Ofwat, Ofgem and Ofcom – seem to be so utterly useless? Well perhaps you need to look no further than the regulators’ employees’ bank accounts. I’m sure employees of regulators like Ofwat, Ofgem and Ofcom get very nice civil-service-style salaries and gold-plated pensions. But they can earn much more by moving to the companies they are supposed to regulate. Basically, they can move from being reasonably-paid gamekeepers to being much more highly-paid poachers. And if you’re an employee of a regulator hoping to get a well-paid job in one of the companies you’re supposed to be regulating, you’re not going to make yourself unpopular with your targetted future employer by regulating too aggressively.
It might seem odd to an ignorant outsider like myself that none of our regulators collect (or admit to collecting?) figures on how many of their employees defect – join the companies they used to regulate. After all, if say about 1% of a regulator’s employees leave to take up much more lucrative jobs with the companies that they were supposed to regulate, that shouldn’t be a problem. But if the figure is say 10% or even more, then clearly management at the regulators have a serious issue they need to address. Therefore, it could appear more than astonishing that regulators don’t collect (or claim to not collect?) this information.
But we do know that 6 of 9 major water and sewerage companies in England have hired former Ofwat directors of corporate strategy or heads of regulation for top roles.
There are, of course, no figures for how many Ofgem employees have joined electricity companies nor of how many Ofcom employees have joined communications and media organisations. But knowing human nature, I think we can guess that quite a few have left the supposed ‘regulators’ in order to help regulated companies outwit the regulators.
And finally we have the two main financial regulators – the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) and the PRA (Prudential Regulation Authority). Again, no figures are available of how many financial regulators have left to get much more lucrative jobs in banking and investment companies. I did find that around 1,000 employees left the FCA in the years 2020 to 2022. I will leave it up to your imagination to guess where these around 1,000 financially-qualified individuals went to work after leaving the FCA.
So, if you’ve ever wondered why our supposed ‘regulators’ appear to be incapable of regulating anything, perhaps you need to look no further than reasonably-paid gamekeepers wanting to become extremely well-paid poachers?
David Craig, on August 8th, 2026
