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.@louismosley heads @PalantirTech 's UK and European operations. Louis seems to like doing audits, I like doing audits too. Here's one for Palantir: ✅ Palantir entered the NHS via a £1 contract in 2020, no competition. Expanded to £60m in COVID contracts, all without tender, before winning the main deal. ✅ 13 of 41 trusts using Palantir's FDP scheduling tool recorded fewer operations after adopting it. NHS England quietly admitted it cannot prove causation. Chelsea and Westminster, the trust behind 84% of the outpatient waiting list claim, has seen its actual waiting list rise by 20,000 over 3 years (The Londoner). NHS staff report the platform runs approximately 10 times slower than the system it replaced (@PeterKGeoghegan, Democracy for Sale). @Foxglovelegal obtained the data NHS England chose not to publish. ✅ NHS England's own data (updated 12 June 2026): 111,589 additional theatre procedures, cumulative from early adopters in 2022 through end of March 2026, across 39 trusts. The NHS delivers around 18.4 million planned treatments per year. At its most generous annual reading, Palantir's unproven claim amounts to roughly 0.3% of NHS annual activity. A third of one percent, with no control group, no causal proof, and 30% of adopting trusts recording fewer operations. ✅ The larger "waiting list removal" figures (218,389 outpatient, 993,477 RTT validation) are mostly administrative cleaning: patients who moved, died, went private, changed their mind about treatment, or were duplicates. NHS England's own methodology page confirms this. A Band 3 administrative assistant costs £27,000 per year. The £47.1m annual contract would fund over 1,700 of them. List validation does not require a funding a $ 360bn surveillance company. ✅ The contract ceiling is £330m over 7 years; £47.1m per year. That fully funds 100 consultant surgeons, 100 registrars and 500 theatre and ward nurses every year. 700 staff. Every year. For 7 years. With money left over. A scheduling tool optimises existing capacity. Staff add new capacity. The NHS has over 106,000 vacancies. ✅ 100 consultants and 100 registrars working standard theatre schedules produce an estimated 60,000 to 90,000 procedures per year. That is more than Palantir's most generous annualised claim. They cost less than the Palantir contract. And they come with 500 nurses who staff wards, run clinics, manage discharges and enable theatre lists. ✅ Those 700 staff return an estimated £164m to the state over 7 years in tax, pensions and VAT. Every penny circulates in UK communities. 100% stays. Zero leaves. ✅ From Palantir's Companies House filing (year ending 31 December 2024): £247m turnover, 749 employees. Cash wages: £91m. Share-based compensation: £62m, vesting in US-listed equity on the NYSE. Corporate tax: approximately £2m. Palantir converts roughly a quarter of its UK revenue into US shareholder value through stock compensation alone. ✅ Palantir claims "£5 of benefits for every £1 spent". NHS England has quietly admitted it cannot prove causation. Peer-reviewed research across 25 EU countries found health spending returns £4.3 for every £1, the highest of any category of government spending (Reeves et al., Globalization and Health). Defence and surveillance spending had a negative multiplier. ✅ @carolecadwalla and @thenerve_news found Palantir has recruited at least 32 senior UK government officials since 2012, including the MoD's AI chief who co-wrote the military AI strategy and met Palantir 9 times in official capacity, NHS England's head of AI, a former MI6 chief, and the joint chair of Chelsea and Westminster. At least 69 government hires in total. Transparency International UK: "acute risk" of corruption. ✅ Mosley told the Observer that if a future government won a "clear public mandate" to use NHS data for immigration enforcement, Palantir would execute it. "Our belief in the importance of abiding by the democratic decision is going to take us into delivering some very controversial things". Thiel, co-founder and chairman of the same company: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible". ✅ Built ICE's deportation targeting infrastructure since 2014. @AmnestyUK's parent organisation found "a high risk that Palantir is contributing to serious human rights violations of migrants and asylum-seekers". 2019 Mississippi raids: 680 arrested, children separated from parents. 52 people have died in ICE custody since January 2025; the highest toll in over two decades. ✅ Maven Smart System ran the targeting for the 2026 US campaign against Iran. US Tomahawk missile struck an elementary school in Minab on 28 February. Approximately 168 killed, mostly children aged 7 to 12. Pentagon investigation concluded the US was responsible. ✅ Supplies AI targeting systems to the Israeli military during what the ICJ has ruled is a plausible genocide. The UN special rapporteur named Palantir as an enabler of "unlawful use of force" in the occupied territories. Amnesty International has described Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide and cited Palantir's IDF work as a contributing factor. Karp, 1 July: "the most publicly supportive CEO of Israel". "Israel is on the side of good" he added. Israel is literally killing children en masse. ✅ Thiel: women's suffrage and welfare had "rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron". Said at the Oxford Union the NHS "makes people ill". Runs "Dialog", a secret invitation-only network of billionaires, Trump officials, senators and NATO commanders, exposed by data leak in June. ✅ Karp told investors in February 2025 that Palantir exists "to scare our enemies and, on occasion, kill them". ✅ Under £820,000 in UK corporate tax in 2025 (@openDemocracy investigation); less than it paid in Korea, Japan, France or Germany. According to ITEP, the US parent paid zero federal income tax on $1.5bn domestic income in 2025. ✅ Cross-party Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, 3 June 2026 (chair @ChiOnwurah): Palantir's public-sector presence is "an unacceptable point of weakness". Urged the government to trigger the February 2027 break clause. ✅ Remains deeply vile and evil. 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