P.K
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🏴MEGA. Jerusalem should be our national anthem. 🏴🇬🇧
















The Sewage Doesn't Lie. Polly Toynbee Said So. In 2010, Polly Toynbee wrote in the Guardian that the census was missing millions of people and that Britain had no reliable idea of how many people actually lived here. Her evidence? Sewage. Thames Water, she explained, could calculate true population numbers from outflow data regardless of who was registered, who had filled in a form, or who the authorities knew about. The sewage doesn't discriminate. It counts everyone. In Slough alone, she reported, Thames Water's data revealed 30,000 more people than officially registered. She was making the argument that inner city constituencies were being underfunded because the state couldn't count its own population. She was right. Fifteen years later, Thames Water commissioned a study using precisely that methodology. The results were obtained by the Telegraph under freedom of information. The study estimated that up to 585,000 people are living illegally in the London water supply zone. Nationally, the figure exceeds one million. David Wood, the former Director General of Immigration Enforcement at the Home Office, told the Home Affairs Select Committee the same thing in 2017, before the Channel crossing surge had even begun. Since 2018, over 200,000 people have arrived by small boat alone, with a removal rate of just 4 percent. The methodology Toynbee championed in 2010 to argue for more funding for Labour inner city seats has produced a number the Guardian would never publish. The sewage still doesn't lie. It has simply started telling a different story. This matters for several reasons. The official population figures used to allocate public services, draw constituency boundaries and calculate per capita spending are wrong. They have been wrong for years and the undercounting runs in one direction only. The people not on the register, not in the census, not in the ONS migration statistics, are overwhelmingly concentrated in the cities and inner suburbs that have absorbed the largest numbers of unregistered arrivals. The schools that are overflowing, the GP surgeries that cannot cope, the housing that is unaffordable: these are not random failures of public administration. They are the predictable consequence of a population that the state either cannot or will not count honestly. The political class that calls concerned citizens far-right for raising these questions has known about the undercounting problem for at least fifteen years. Toynbee's 2010 piece was not a fringe complaint. It was a mainstream left-wing argument made in Britain's most prominent left-wing newspaper, citing official ONS data, Thames Water analysis and the testimony of sitting MPs. The numbers were smaller then. The methodology was the same. What has changed is not the tools for counting. What has changed is what the counting reveals. In 2010 it revealed underfunded Labour constituencies. In 2026 it reveals a population of over a million people living here without authorisation, in a country whose government describes 171,000 net migration as a secure Britain and calls anyone who disagrees a bigot. Polly Toynbee was right in 2010. The sewage doesn't lie. She just didn't anticipate where the truth would eventually lead. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… "The study estimated that up to 585,000 people are living illegally in the London water supply zone. Nationally, the figure exceeds one million."


Angela Rayner has urged Sir Keir Starmer to ban social media for children aged under 16. The former deputy prime minister said Sir Keir should “just make a decision and do it” because it seemed “so clear that that’s what you need to do” 👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…











