DOGE U.K. – and Other Hopes and Dreams for 2025
Last week I wrote a fairly “un-Christmassy” column about the CAN Bill. But I wanted to make my next one a bit more seasonal – cheerful, even! – about my hopes and dreams for the new year. I guess this is more a strategy guide for the Right, and anyone simply sick of Labour/the radical Left, as to what I think our priorities should be next year and thereafter.
Less defeatism
Without sounding sanctimonious, I hope Britain can be less defeatist in 2025. Don’t get me wrong, I sometimes feel very pessimistic about the state of the U.K. But this attitude doesn’t get us anywhere. This isn’t to suggest we should delude ourselves about the British economy or the Labour Party. The key thing is to be practical. Ideally we need to delve deep, to understand why Britain doesn’t work, which isn’t simply ‘incompetence’, and put forth a thorough plan to tackle it. Hand-wringing or moving to Australia, as so many fed up Brits are now doing, isn’t a proper solution!
Start asking “Who funds you?” of the Left
One of the best ways to find out what’s gone wrong in Britain is to ask the Left “who funds you?” It’s almost always the Right that this question is put to, mainly because it works as a good deflection technique for the Left (whose adherents regularly post about Tufton Street on X). But what about them? Labour MPs, for instance, receive huge amounts of funding, often from people calling themselves ‘philanthropists’. Most of these very rich individuals have their own agendas. Working out what these are, particularly those giving millions to the Labour Party, is key to understanding what’s really going on in Britain – and sometimes worldwide (many of our problems are paralleled elsewhere).
More investigative journalism
We need more investigative journalism. Currently, the Right is very heavy on opinion writers. This isn’t a problem per se. It’s just that there is so much to investigate, in terms of Left-wing funders and networks, that we really need a whole army of us on it. The more people looking, and diagnosing, the faster we can get to addressing the ghastly state of Britain.
Be more evil
In general, those on the Right can be very naïve about their ideological opponents. They take everything at surface level and seem to believe that they can defeat the Left in the ‘battle of ideas’. I wish – half-jokingly – we could all ‘be more evil’. Those on the Left plot, often through mass coordination and funding networks, and we need to be so much more cynical about their methods.
Crowd-researching
One thing that’s really helped me in my investigative work is ‘crowd-researching’. To explain: I often post bits and bobs on X as I am researching, generally when I’ve found something awful that I need to vent to others about. The benefit of this is that masses of people have replied with very useful information (data and tips). And I have met internet sleuths who are helping me map out the networks. Perhaps the best thing about voluntary teams is they bring out people who are passionate and driven to discover more.
DOGE U.K.
A slightly personal hope for 2025 is that I can help to tackle some of the Left-wing horror show Britain has through setting up a DOGE U.K., inspired by the Department for Government Efficiency in the U.S. (being set up by Elon Musk). It coincided rather nicely with my ‘Woke Waste‘ project, as I have now collated a huge amount of information on how Brits have had their tax wasted.
I absolutely cannot do this project alone – which is part of the point of DOGE U.K.: to bring others into the fold. So far I have been working with three extremely talented individuals who separately contacted me, wanting to join in the fight against the Blob. Many others want to roll up their sleeves too, which should give us all hope.
For DOGE U.K., I have recently bought suitable domains and have a website in the making. The group or think tank in its final formation shall be called Afuera, which Javier Milei, the President of Argentina, famously shouted as he proposed cuts for pointless ministries there. A clip for you to enjoy.
In the meantime, Happy New Year!
Charlotte Gill regularly publishes about the use of taxpayers’ money to fund Left-wing causes and Left-wing researchers in Woke Waste, her Substack. You can subscribe here.
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The challenge being to decide what is pointless, perhaps. After all, bureaucratic organisations can behave like a disease on the one hand, or like a useful bacteria for processing useful products. They do not usually commit financial suicide, though. Self protection is more like it!
It’s fairly easy to do this experimentally: Abolish everything on the grounds that it’s probably pointless. Create new institutions if and when the need arises.
When the Germany Empire was created in 1871, its sole public office was that of the chancellor. It gradually acquired more institutions as the need arose, somewhat practically limited by the fact that it followed a strict no debts policy — the Reich could only spend what it had actually earned before. This worked very well until it became a parliamentary republic with all the usual diseases of one.
The indefatigable investigative journalist Charlotte Gill has “now collated a huge amount of information on how Brits have had their tax wasted”, and calls for help in her project.
How about The Taxpayers Alliance? Surely they would be happy to collaborate.
But she is absolutely wrong to urge us to “be more evil”. No !!!
Evil is Cowardly, like Satan the Snivelling Coward ruining the world.
We must be strong, and fight for all that is good.
And thanks for that great video of Argentinian Warrior President Javier Milei !!!
I agree – I think it would be an own goal to “be more evil”. I don’t think it’s naive to want to win the battle of ideas.
Recent event in Germany: Some private volunteer organization had asked for donations to put candles on war graves of German soldiers and ended up putting 5500 candles on different graves in a certain cemetery in Brandenburg. This got obviously noticed and was deemed – especially during an election campaign – extremely inconvenient by TPTB. The semi-official position of the German political establishment is that all Germans born prior to 1945 and especially, all German soldiers of WWII, are just Nazi criminals deserving public condemnation. OTOH, there was formally absolutely nothing wrong with people putting candles on graves, even graves the German political establishment considers inconvenient. Nevertheless, the police showed up and removed absolutely every decoration on any grave on the whole cemetery. The justification (according to a police spokesperson) was as follows: The bylaws of the cemetery state that political gatherings on the cemetery are prohibited. Since a real lot of candles were place, some people must have gathered to do so and hence, had a gathering. As they were planning to put candles on war graves during an election campaign, this must have been a political gathering. As the candles couldn’t have been put on the graves without an… Read more »
I wonder if “evil” wasn’t used for hyperbole. Not sticking to rules isn’t necessarily evil – depending on the rules.
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I wish – half-jokingly – we could all ‘be more evil’.
makes it pretty obvious that it was hyperbole. The idea behind that was probably that fighting a battle of ideas won’t work because such battles are only being fought while the other side remains convinced that they’ll win them. Should this change, they’ll switch to other means. Eg, jailing people for the claim that grooming gangs indeed to exist instead of just being a right-wing/ white supremacist conspiracy theory.
I agree – don’t be evil. That’s an own goal.
“Be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
If I have any New Year’s message for myself, it would be: do not despair. The truth always prevails.
Anybody who denies the truth will eventually go insane. To sustain a lie requires a massively complicated system of deceit and fakery, which consumes a lot of energy. Like a pack of cards ready to collapse, like a tank full of holes, like a house built on sand. Those who sign up to these lies will go angry and their fury will only grow as they realize they are fighting a losing battle. Eventually they end up broken, spiritually and psychologically, like Adolph in the bunker, with a cyanide capsule in the mouth and a bullet hole in the head.
Don’t despair. The truth will win.
I take your point, and don’t disagree in principle. However, the lies in East Germany lasted from 1945 to 1989, and they started in Russia from 1917 (if you exclude the preceding Tzarist centuries), and continue today, over 100 years later, under a slightly different, but no less evil format. Are we seriously saying we’re going to sit back, in the West as a whole, while self deluded power mongers and money grubbing globalists destroy the progress towards reasoned personal freedoms we have so painfully endured over the last few centuries? I’m 79, and it was clear to me by May 2020, with knowledge accrued from years working with medically trained colleagues, that something was seriously awry. Since then, with increasing disbelief, and then horror, I have watched as society has been dismantled and turned into a nightmare dystopia. I can only assume I was too busy paddling like hell as a working none parent to notice the developing undercurrents in the previous decades. Our young people face a very dark century, or more, if we don’t capitalise on what is happening in the US now, and push back against the establishment’s plans for them. I hope to be around… Read more »
Hate to be a bearer of bad news …but with the Kneeler and Co in charge…..life is going to get hopelessly miserable, as the Kneeler and Co flounder helplessly and soon they will enact laws, out of pure vengeance.
Good luck with the Afuera project.
Speaking of investigative journalism, Sonia Poulton is a good person to follow. So many truth bombs and good stuff covered in this recent interview. She’s certainly on the same page as me regarding the prevalence of paedophilia and treatment of these sick perverts by the courts. 8/10 men who download child sex abuse images are never given a custodial sentence. I actually thought it was 10/10 because that’s how it seems to me. This is an area that I find very concerning because it’s not until you scratch the surface that it really brings home to you just how widespread this problem of paedophilia is. Just how many men are there who have an unhealthy and unnatural sexual attraction to children, considering the fact the ones reported on in the press will be the tip of the iceberg? Frightening, and these sickos want their deviance normalised; ”Journalist Sonia Poulton exposes the abuses from elites in the BBC as well as Jeffrey Epstein, Prince Andrew and the Royal Family. We discuss the dark truth about everyone from Huw Edwards and Philip Schofield to Diddy, Ashton Kutcher and SIR Keir Starmer.” ( 1hr ); https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POt5nNFaM-Q On the same topic, citizen journalists get… Read more »
Just a bit of a comparison on what the courts decide is worthy of jail time or not. Preaching to the choir, I know…;
”Lucy Connolly is a political prisoner of Keir Starmer
& is serving a 31-month sentence for a social media post.
Her husband gives us an update to what life in prison for her is like.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1871152696625098784
”A depraved pervert who was caught sneaking into a cowshed and having sex with a calf after a farmer set up surveillance has avoided jail.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12859739/man-caught-having-sex-cow-avoids-jail.html
“. Hand-wringing or moving to Australia”
No thanks, just ask dystopian Down Under!
I remember Katie Hopkins asking Femi (the EU bloke, and to think I shook hands with him once when discussing Brexit. But I have always believed on free speech and didn’t realise what an utter Woke Marxist he was at the time) who funds you…..It caused a stir in the background after she asked that.
The article insists on the Left – Right division in Uk politics, when it has been repeatedly shown in these columns that all major political parties are on the Left. Also curious, is “afuera” solely crowd-funded?
for the Left (whose adherents regularly post about Tufton Street on X). But what about them?
They could ask about the City of London and the power that resides there, but we know the Left will not because they are unlikely bedfellows these days, just like with the WEF.
“and we need to be so much more cynical about their methods”
Mark Steyn makes that point enough times. “You Constitution wavers just don’t get it, we are beyond that now, the process is the punishment etc etc”
There is no shortage of information or even of awareness despite obvious widespread naivete. A lot of people get the gist of it especially after 2021. But many are slaves to money and being aware of something doesn’t mean that you have the means or the will to fight it. As a population you can become so deluded or corrupted that you just can’t see clearly anymore.
So, the president of Argentina is a guy who once let himself be filmed while pulling a lot of labels off a whiteboard while shouting stuff? Color me unimpressed.
He held the Saw well though.