Matt Stokes

Three illegal immigrants have been found guilty of gang raping a British woman on a beach in Brighton. They brutally raped her while filming and calling her a "Dirty b****". At one point, one of the rapists grabbed hold of her face, forced open her mouth and spat in it while encouraging his friends to do the same. The victim said: "I was begging them to stop and they wouldn't. Every time I close my eyes I can see them laughing at me. They thought it was funny. My skin crawls because of what they did. They're evil and they've ruined my life." She may never recover from this trauma. This is what the British government has done to the women of this country. There needs to be a reckoning.

I just pissed my pants 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

🚨Woman plows car into pedestrians in central London — multiple injured, man in 50s with life-changing injuries, woman in critical condition. 29yo arrested for attempted murder. This is daily chaos under open borders Britain.

First game in the Premier league vs Final game with our premier league status. How far we have fallen 🤮 #WWFC

Exactly what they deserve. Bunch of cunts.

Away end turns toxic after another disgusting ‘performance’.

Relegation will be confirmed at 7:30pm this evening I’ve no doubt. What I do know is this has been a managed decline over the past three years and this day was a long time in the making. We can blame managers etc - but it’s ALL on our custodians @Fosun_Intl Selling our best players year on year replacing them with inadequate alternatives - selling our captain four seasons running - this season though we haven’t even got a recognised captain to sell! The Nathan Shi appointment is all smoke and mirrors and was a deliberate ploy to take the pressure off Fosun and now that will hopefully backfire very quickly - it’s the owners that need to be on the firing line. The sooner these charlatans are out of our club and sell up the better. They wouldn’t run any of their other businesses this way but deem it fit to run Wolverhampton Wanderers with such negligence. FOSUN do the right thing - get out of our club - stop the rot and make the sale to someone who understands the importance of running a football club the right way and wants to rebuild not regress. It’s our club - not your vanity project.

#wwfc If you need a barometer for how far Wolves have fallen, just ask: how many of today’s XI would make Nuno’s promotion-winning Wolves team?

Cant beat a bit of Bad Manners. Who remembers Lip Up Fatty? 🤣❤️

‼️ WTF? Whilst you were distracted … Labour has just voted through powers to FORCE pension funds to invest your money in UK government ‘priorities’. Meaning Labour effectively takes control of up to 10% of your private pension to invest in bollocks. I call that theft. How dare the government take MY money for their projects. WTF?

'The idea that with four games to go, they can apply these points deductions is ludicrous'. Albion Analysis' Chris Hall discusses West Brom's potential points deduction. You can listen to the Football Phone-In every weeknight 6-7pm here - bbc.in/4tbWYKi

Let me walk you through the arithmetic of Britain's demographic crisis. Because once you see the numbers, you can't unsee them. The UK has around 43 million people of working age. These are the people the entire system depends on. They pay the taxes. They fund the pensions. They staff the hospitals. 9 million of them are economically inactive. Not working and not looking for work. 1 in 5. That number deserves unpacking because it isn't one problem. It's several, layered on top of each other. The largest group, around 2.8 million, are out due to long-term sickness or disability. That number has been rising steadily since 2019 and recently hit a record high. Among younger people, the driver is mental health. Among older workers, it's musculoskeletal conditions, back problems, and other chronic illness. People in their early twenties are now more likely to be economically inactive due to ill health than people in their forties. That statistic alone should stop you in your tracks. The second largest group, roughly 2.4 million, are students in full-time education. They're investing in their future productivity. But while they study, they aren't contributing to the tax base. Around 1.6 million are looking after family or home, disproportionately women. Around 1.1 million took early retirement before state pension age. Many left during or after the pandemic and haven't returned. The rest are classed as discouraged or otherwise outside the labour market. On top of the 9 million inactive, another 1.87 million are unemployed. Youth unemployment has risen to around 16%. So of around 43 million people of working age, roughly 32 million are actually in work. About a quarter of the working-age population is not in paid employment. Now look at who they're supporting. There are roughly 12 million people above state pension age. The official dependency ratio is 278 pensioners per 1,000 people of working age. That sounds manageable. About 3.6 to one. But when you use the number of people actually working, it drops to roughly 2.7 workers per pensioner. Less than three. By 2047, the latest official projections show the ratio worsening to 302 per 1,000, even after planned pension age rises. ONS modelling submitted to the House of Lords suggests that to hold the current ratio constant, pension age would eventually need to reach 70 or beyond. Under current law, it rises to 67 by 2028, with further increases likely to stay on the table. And the support base is under growing pressure. The fertility rate just hit 1.41. The lowest on record. You need 2.1 to keep the population stable. We're at two thirds of that and falling. The average age of mothers is now 31. The government has expanded funded childcare significantly, and that's a genuine step forward. But the birth rate kept falling right through it. Because the problem isn't just childcare. It's housing. It's wages. It's the cost of being alive in this country while trying to raise a family. The overall population is still projected to grow, mainly through migration. But the pension-age population is growing faster than the working-age population. The number of people aged 85 and over is projected to nearly double, from 1.7 million in 2022 to 3.3 million by 2047. More pensions. More NHS demand. More social care. All landing on a workforce where the ratio of workers to dependants is weakening every year. And here's the part nobody talks about. According to the ONS, at least 1.4 million people in the UK are raising children while simultaneously caring for ageing parents. The sandwich generation. Wider estimates suggest the true figure may be considerably higher. Typically aged 35 to 64, spanning millennials and Gen X. These are people in mid-career. Many in management roles. Peak earning years. Maximum professional responsibility. And they're juggling all of that with school runs on one side and elderly care on the other. Two thirds say their finances are under strain. Carers UK estimates that over 600 people a day quit their jobs to care for a loved one. Research by the Centre for Economics and Business Research puts the average lifetime financial cost of being a sandwich carer at over £345,000 in lost earnings, reduced pension contributions, and direct care costs. Women are more than twice as likely to be the ones who leave work. Every one of those people who leaves is one fewer taxpayer. One fewer pension contributor. One fewer worker holding up the dependency ratio. And they don't just lose their salary. They lose years of compound growth on pension savings. They arrive at retirement with a depleted pot, needing the same support they were once helping to fund. This is about to intensify. As the over-85 population nearly doubles and social care continues to collapse, more people in that 35 to 64 age bracket will face the impossible choice between their career and their parents. The sandwich generation will get bigger. The workforce will come under even more strain. Now layer the health crisis on top. The Health Foundation projects that 3.7 million working-age people will be living with major illness by 2040, a 17% rise on 2019 levels. Already, 3.7 million people who are in work have a health condition that limits the type or amount of work they can do. That number has grown by 1.4 million in a decade. The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee said it plainly. Those who are already economically inactive are becoming sicker, meaning they're less likely to return to work. The ageing effect that was previously being masked by other factors is now being reinforced by them. So here's the picture. The state pension costs around £146 billion a year. Funded entirely by current workers paying current retirees. There is no pot. The triple lock ratchets it higher every year. The working-age support base is under pressure and weakening. The number of dependants is growing. The people in the middle are getting sicker, burning out, and leaving work to care for parents the state can't look after. The generation behind them is smaller because the birth rate has collapsed. And the generation behind them will be smaller still. Nobody chose this. No generation is to blame. People didn't decide to be priced out of having children. Workers didn't choose to develop chronic conditions. The sandwich generation didn't volunteer to care for ageing parents with no safety net. This is a systems failure. We can argue over whether it's underinvestment in housing, health, social care, and prevention, or poor personal choices of the population at large that have produced a workforce that is too small, too sick, and too stretched to carry what's being placed on it. But this is where we're at. And the weight is growing every year. The arithmetic doesn't negotiate. And right now, it says we're running out of people to pay for the country we've built.

The BBC thought there is no way a Black Man would say there was too much immigration But this guy was on fire 🔥 The UK is OVERUN We need MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW.

Unbelievable. Axel Rudakubana was never stopped by security services because they feared being called RACIST. It's the Manchester Arena bombing all over again. 🇬🇧

A reminder of how Labour is spending your money abroad: - £235m Ukraine - £225m Ethiopia - £171m Afghanistan - £145m Syria - £144m Yemen - £80m Kenya - £68m Jordan - £65m Myanmar - £62m Bangladesh - £143m Somalia - £60m Nepal - £270m Sudan - £56m Lebanon - £56m Tanzania - £50m Malawi - £130m Palestine - £117m Nigeria - £107m Congo - £310m World Health Organisation A Grand total of £2.5billion. £2.5 billion which invariably finds itself in the pockets of corrupt politicians.

The British government has wasted more money on failed projects than some countries spend building their entire infrastructure. After hearing about the cancellation of the Stonehenge Tunnel project, yet it still racking up £179 million in cost, I wanted to look at other projects and costs to see what the picture looks like this century. Every number here comes from official reports, the National Audit Office, parliamentary committees, and ministers' own admissions. Let me show you where your money has gone. HS2 was sold to the country as a £37.5 billion high speed rail network connecting London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Leeds. The first phase was supposed to open this year. In 2026. Here's where it actually is. After six years of construction and £46 billion spent, tunnels have been bored, earth has been moved, viaducts have been built. But there is no railway. Not a single metre of track. The legs to Manchester and Leeds have been cancelled entirely. What's left is a line from London to Birmingham with no confirmed opening date, no confirmed final cost, and estimates so unstable that Parliament's own Public Accounts Committee has warned the cash cost of Phase 1 alone could reach £80 billion. Some industry forecasts put it above £100 billion. The Transport Secretary stood in Parliament last year and called it "an appalling mess." She said billions had been wasted on scope changes, ineffective contracts, and bad management. Fraud allegations have since emerged in the supply chain. Three times the original price. A fraction of what was promised. And still years from completion. But HS2 is just one example. The NHS National Programme for IT was supposed to create a unified electronic health record for every patient in England. Launched in 2002 with a budget of £6 billion. Abandoned in 2011 with the Public Accounts Committee putting the expected cost at £12.4 billion. It delivered a fraction of its promised benefits. Only 13 out of 169 hospital trusts received the systems they were meant to get. Then one of the contractors sued the government and won a settlement of nearly half a billion pounds. On top. During Covid, the government threw billions out the door with almost no checks. The Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner's final report, published December 2025, found that fraud and error across pandemic support schemes cost taxpayers £10.9 billion. How much has been recovered? £1.8 billion. The Commissioner's words, not mine. The previous government "left the front door open to fraud." Bounce Back Loans were rolled out in under two weeks with no independent verification. PPE contracts were handed to companies with no track record. Defective gowns, masks, and visors weren't inspected for two years. By the time anyone checked, the money was gone. Universal Credit was supposed to simplify the benefits system. The original programme was budgeted at around £2 billion. The National Audit Office has flagged massive overruns repeatedly as the project ballooned in scope and complexity. Total costs have run many times higher than planned. Nobody was fired. The smart meter rollout was supposed to be finished by 2020. It wasn't. Costs have hit £13.5 billion. The programme has been dogged by meters losing functionality, missed deadlines, and a failure to deliver the energy savings that justified the whole thing in the first place. One many of you will be familiar with. The Post Office spent £600 million on a computer system called Horizon. It was fundamentally flawed. Its defects led to more than 900 wrongful convictions. Sub-postmasters lost their homes. Their businesses. Their families. At least 13 people took their own lives. Compensation has now reached £1.4 billion and is expected to hit £2 billion. Fujitsu, the company that built the system, has not paid a single penny toward that bill. It is still collecting government contracts. The Fire Control project. £469 million. Seven years. An attempt to modernise fire service control rooms. Scrapped. Nothing delivered. What a waste. The electronic tagging programme. Five years late. Tens of millions spent. Abandoned. They ended up buying off the shelf tags that could have been bought for a fraction of the price years earlier. The Garden Bridge. £53 million of public money. Not a single piece was built. You might ask what £53 million was spent on exactly. The Rwanda deportation scheme. £715 million. Four people went voluntarily. Not a single forced deportation was carried out. Then the whole thing was scrapped. Now here's the part that ties it all together. In 2019, the Prime Minister's own Implementation Unit looked at the government's £432 billion portfolio of major projects. Only 8% had proper plans to evaluate whether they were working. 64% of that spending, £276 billion, had no evaluation at all. None. The government was spending hundreds of billions of your money with no way of knowing if any of it was delivering. The National Audit Office has said there has been a "consistent pattern of underperformance" spanning 25 years. Twenty five years of reports saying the same thing. And nothing changes. Add it up. HS2 overruns. NHS IT written off. £10.9 billion in Covid fraud. Universal Credit ballooning. Smart meters over budget. Post Office compensation approaching £2 billion. Fire Control. Rwanda. Garden Bridge. Tagging. And those are just the ones that made the news. The total runs into the tens of billions. More than the entire annual education budget. Approaching what the government now spends on debt interest in a single year. And here's the scary part. This is only what we know about. The NAO has been clear the real picture is worse because most projects aren't properly evaluated in the first place. These are the failures too big to hide. Imagine the ones that aren't. This is the same government that says there's no money for public services. That raises your taxes every year and delivers less every year. That can't build a railway. Can't roll out a computer system. Can't buy protective equipment without losing billions to fraud. And every time it happens, the pattern is the same. The project fails. The minister moves on. The civil servant gets a knighthood. The contractor gets the next contract. And you pick up the bill. The UK doesn't have a funding problem. It has a competence problem. And until that changes, no amount of tax rises, borrowing, or spending reviews will make the slightest difference.

Police appeal after woman raped by several men outside church in Epsom. Try not to speculate..🤨

This isn't football anymore

@DarylRobinson23 @JackWDart Anyone doing a charity run for her family tomorrow? Didn’t think so

@JackWDart Why don’t you run a marathon for him He was just walking his dog