If anybody has been keeping track, the UK is essentially a third world country now. Its decline has been phenomenal and its trajectory even more impressively depressing.

Now, there's a lot of reasons for this, with insane levels of immigration, NHS inefficiency, Nimbyism, bureaucracy, lack of productivity, inability to build infrastructure, lack of investment, to name a few.

But through family and friends, social media and more, I've sat here, abroad, for years hearing anecdote after anecdote of the absolute, sheer wastage - or perhaps, corruption - that has left the country in tatters.

But even though I am utterly bewildered at every given turn of events, every ridiculous story, the sheer capacity of wastage was not even conceptualised until Elon Musk opened this DOGE project, highlighting and shutting down needless departments burning money for stupid and unimportant goals. You can track it on X or whatever if you like.

Long story short for the US, billions of dollars of contracts get passed through either because nobody read them, they were read and had more corrupt intent, or they were agreed upon for international hegemonic soft power to turn the international stage in favour of whatever current political goals the US had (democrat left, in this case).

Well, the UK is worse. An account on X has decided to take inspiration from DOGE and do the Lord's work themselves and here are a few infuriating things it has uncovered that the British taxpayer are scammed into paying for:

UK's Phenomenal Financial Waste

• Working With Whiteness Workshop.

A taxpayer-funded PhD on porcelain as a medium to interrogate whiteness.It's exactly what it sounds like. Women do pottery while discussing 'ideological whiteness as oppression'

Cost unknown on account

• Research on “gay ‘pig’ masculinities”.

This resulted in a film called OINK! Gay Pig, according to the abstract, refers to: Gay people who push the limits of their bodies' integrity through relentless, condomless penetrations, stretching of the rectal sphincter, and exchanges of all kinds of bodily fluids (sperm, urine, saliva, etc). It's used in websites like NastyKingPigs.com or Asspigs.com

Cost: £194,183

• UK taxpayers were charged for a study on the environmental impact of Star Wars.

'The Phantom Menace addresses the effects of colonisation. And in Solo (2018), characters recognise the effects of war on different eco-systems'

£201,013

• Comics and Race in Latin America

£759,293

• Green Urban Growth in Somalia

£25,000,000, with an option to double it

• 15 Electric Porsches for PRISONS IN ALBANIA??

£500,000

• The Vagina Museum (2020-22)

£112,000

• Indigenous Film Ecologies in India

'...aims to consolidate, through practices of co-creation, an indigenous methodology for filmmaking, develop a culture of indigenous research-based filmmaking that address asymmetries in the public sphere, and research different ecologies of indigenous film

£311,002

• Interpretation and Translation Services for the NHS

£73,000,000

• The Arts and Humanities Research Council

£207,000,000

This one needs a further look because it's insane. That money was split across the following ridiculous bullshit:

• The Europe that Gay Porn Built
• Perverse Collections: Building Europe's Queer and Trans Archives
• Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India
• Trans Performance Now: Glitching cisgenderism
• Trans Archiving Network
• Diverse alarums: centering marginalised communities in the contemporary performance of early modern plays
• (De)colonial Ecologies in 21st-century insular Hispanic Caribbean film
• Transnational 'Anti-Gender' Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions
• Comics and Race in Latin America
• Listening to the 85%: exploring how recording and listening to underwater sounds can increase environmental awareness on Isle of Man
• Sports media and identity: a theory-practice network
• Decolonizing South East Asian Sound Archives
• Everything Is Connected: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of the Internet
• MAUSI Net. Menopause Artivism in UK, Sweden and India
• Screen Encounters with Britain: What do young Europeans make of Britain and its digital screen culture?
• Decolonising the Page: The Visual Politics and Poetics of Postcolonial Arabic Publications
• The Tipuna Project: Intergenerational Healing, Settler Accountability and Decolonising Participatory Action Research in Aotearoa
• Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present
• The Cultural Legacies of the British Empire: Classical Music's Colonial History (1750-1900)
• South African Modernism (Follow-on-Funding): Decolonising English Literary Studies In and Beyond the Classroom
• The Future of Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities: Ancestral governance, environmental stewardship, language revival, and cultural vibrancy
• Mongolian Cosmopolitical Heritage: Tracing Divergent Healing Practices Across the Mongolian-Chinese Border
• The Abundance Project: Enhancing Cultural & Green Inclusion in Social Prescribing in Southwest London to Address Ethnic Inequalities in Mental Health
• Communication and Creativity: An Arts-Based Study Focusing on Marginalised East African Communities in Kenya, Uganda and the United Kingdom
• Centre for Cultural Value
• Colonial Reels: Histories and Afterlives of Colonial Film Collections
• The Colour of Diversity: A Longitudinal Analysis of BFI Diversity Standards Data and Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry
• Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality Before Liberation
• Indigenous Film Ecologies in India
• Romani Migration between Germany and Britain (1880s-1914): Spaces of Informal Business, Media Spectacle, and Racial Policing
• Global Leadership of Women in Web 3 (GLoW3) (2020-2024)
• University of Arts London’s Decolonising Arts Institute/ Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage
• Westminster University’s three-year study on LTNs – led by “Active Travel” experts
• The Environmental Impact of Filmmaking: Using Star Wars to Improve Sector Sustainability Practices
• Cuteness in Contemporary Environmental Culture: Developing Ecopoetic Practice
• In Our Own Words: Documenting Everyday Lives of Queer People in Central Asia
• Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts
• Nasawe'sx ya'yu'cenxi (Weaving Our Own Justice): Justice and Authority in the Nasa Communities of the Sa'th Tama Kiwe Territory, Caldono, Colombia
• Coloniality and Communications: British Telecommunications in Mesopotamia in the early 20th Century

• Solid Water, Frozen Time, Future Justice: Photography and Mining in the Andean Glaciers

• Komon Sajb'ichil for Ixil Cartographies during the Cold War: Knowledge Exchange for Intergenerational Justice

• Diaspora by Design: Migration, Mills and Interiors

• Building reproductive justice with indigenous women in the Northeast of Brazil

• Buzzers for Bedwetters: Incontinence and the Urinary Body in Britain, 1870-1970

• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Engagement Fellowships Pilot

• Translating for change: Anglophone queer cinema and the Chinese LGBT+ movement

• Self-worth as a community asset: co-authoring and extending burlesque's protected and deregulated spaces as good practice

Insanity.

But let's keep going!

• Climate Smart Jobs Programme in Uganda

£15.500,000 with the option to increase to £23,250,000

• PhD: The Ukraine war, Covid-19 and the Trump presidency highlight the threat disinformation poses to democracy

£839,794

• Communication and Creativity: An Arts-Based Study Focusing on Marginalised East African Communities in Kenya, Uganda and the United Kingdom

£847,202

• A contract to monitor the “Afghanistan Taliban’s Narcotics Ban”

£133,000

• “Green Growth in Nepal”

£22,490,382

• ONE LinkedIn Subscription

£151,000

• Countering Disinformation in Ethiopia.

£264,176

• Indonesia’s Renewable Energy Programme.

£8,600,000

• Prevention of Gender-Based Disinformation in Kenya

£110,000

• Enhancing Gender and Human Development Outcomes through Systems Strengthening” in Nepal.

£10,000,000

• “Asylum Interview Booths”

£5,026,005

• “Taskforce on Access to Climate Finance - Mauritius”

£12,000,000

• Online Equity, Diversity and Inclusion training in the Construction Industry

£857,000

• The refurbishment of the Nairobi High Commission

£1,444,701,335 (yes, 1.4 BILLION)

• Covid 19 Vaccinations Helpline

£25,000,000

• To "facilitate the launch of 290 private tenure apartments"

£306,000

• TFL (transport for London) to move office

£19,500,000

The list keeps going.

Conclusion

Pretty insane eh?

The thing is, these things aren't hidden. They're just drowned in a sea of spending and kind of kicked under the rug quietly. These things have been raised in parliament, even, as major concerns. I mean, do they honestly think all the 25 million going to Somalia for green urban growth, is actually going to go to green urban growth? Not just in somebody's pocket who works in the UK government or their pals in Somalia?

And even if so, WHY? Why are the British taxpayers paying for urban growth in Somalia? What possible mutual agreement could we have that in any way benefits or enriches us?

A lot of the above is clearly highly ideological, too. A lot of left, far-left, woke kinda stuff. You might love it or hate it, but either way, the UK is BROKE right now. We're descending into a pit of steaming manure with a rusty penny somewhere at the bottom we're all desperately trying to swim down and grab. Why are we wasting so much money on this stuff right now? Wait until the day, 300 years from now, when we have money to spare for christ's sake.

The current government often quotes the '22 billion pound black hole' from the last leadership, and yet, JUST what I have listed here amounts to almost 2 billion pounds. And this is the small stuff. This is just the sneaky stuff slipping through the cracks without anyone noticing. Add that to the actual party talking points and we're just a total joke of a nation.

£18,000,000,000 sent to the Chagos Isles in order for us to GIVE THEM the island??

What do we get in return? International mockery.

That deal alone, combined with the above list of utter waste, would all but wipe out the 'black hole' and leave little more than a small bank loan of debt.

But oh well. Let's just keep screwing everyone over with high taxes and suppression of freedoms.