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So here’s how the racket really works. We were told this week that one taxi company alone is pocketing £350,000 every single month, shuttling migrants six thousand times to doctors, dentists, the Home Office and accommodation. People think migrants are calling cabs themselves, paying like you and me. They’re not. The money flows like this: taxpayers pay the Home Office, the Home Office pays the giants – Serco, Mears, Clearsprings – and those giants farm the work out to private contractors. And right there is where the feeding frenzy begins.
Clearsprings: Owned and controlled by Graham Ian King, a man who’s climbed into the rich list on the back of asylum housing, pocketing more than £180 million profit in just three years, with dividends pushing him towards billionaire status. MPs have already demanded answers about offshore consultancy fees pouring out to a UAE shell he’s linked to, money flowing round in circles. His group holds billion-pound contracts covering Wales and the South, and it is Clearsprings Ready Homes that decides who gets the lucrative transport subcontracting.
This particular saga has been ousted by PTS-247 Ltd. Registered at a Crawley office, its directors are Ashok Puri and Manju Puri, both appointed in 2019. These are Indian Punjabi names, and the firm’s filings list “taxi operations” as the core business. This is the outfit raking in that £350,000 a month for six thousand journeys – which works out at nearly £60 a trip, regardless of whether it’s a five-minute hop to a GP surgery or a longer haul. That’s far above a standard taxi fare, let alone what pooled buses or NHS patient transport could do. Yet nobody checks, nobody questions, and nobody reins it in.
And it isn’t just them. These contracts are written so one firm in each region gets the golden ticket.
Councils aren’t involved. The invoices aren’t compared to normal metered fares. They’re billed as “special transport” at inflated rates and waved through. And because the contracts are multi-layered – Home Office → Serco/Mears/Clearsprings → PTS-247 or whichever local firm – the paper trail blurs just enough to hide who is really creaming off the profit.
Taxis are the new Turkish barbers.
It is an extortion racket run in daylight. The men at the top – King at Clearsprings, the Puris at PTS-247 – are making fortunes from public money while the system beneath us collapses.
Follow the money. Pull the company filings. Trace the names.
Same old British piss take.
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Email calling Epstein a 'supreme friend' adds new fuel to royal scandal
A newly surfaced email revealed that Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, described Epstein, the disgraced financier, as a “supreme friend” despite his conviction for sex offenses.The email was published in two newspapers Sunday. It was sent by the duchess — the former wife of Prince Andrew, the Duke of York — in 2011, just weeks after she had publicly distanced herself from Epstein.
www.nbcnews.com/world/united-kingdom/email-calling-epstein-supreme-friend-adds-new-fuel-royal-scandal-rcna232705
Sarah Ferguson's worst gaffes
- Leaving baby Beatrice behind when she went to Australia
- That toe-sucking incident
- Cash for access scandal: In a sting by the now-defunct News of the World, Ferguson was filmed offering Mazher Mahmood, an undercover reporter posing as a businessman (aka the “Fake Sheikh”), access to Prince Andrew for a fee of £500,000. In the video, she could be seen taking away a briefcase containing £40,000 in cash. “That opens up everything you would ever wish for,” she's heard saying on the tape. “I can open any door you want, and I will for you. Look after me and he'll look after you... you'll get it back tenfold.”
- Storming out of an interview
- Money troubles
- Nursing home fraud scandal
- Out of touch TV appearances
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A migration catastrophe unfolds in Calais: SUE REID has never seen it more crowded with desperate migrants. And they've only one destination in mind...
A migration catastrophe unfolds in Calais: SUE REID reports
Multitudes of destitute and desperate men originating from across the world are in the French city of Calais, which increasingly resembles a giant refugee encampment (pictured).
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Smirking Montessori worker who attacked 21 toddlers and VAPED in children's room while high on cannabis at £1,900-a-month nursery is jailed for eight years
Lecka, who is from Poland but moved to the UK with her parents when she was younger, was caught on CCTV kicking a boy in the face and punching a girl in the sideLecka tried to justify her behaviour by claiming she was sleep-deprived from smoking cannabis all night with her boyfriend
And in excerpts from police interviews she sat emotionless and simply repeated: 'No comment.'
At one point she could be seen playing with her hair, prompting a female officer to ask: 'Am I boring you?'
Lecka, who wore a black suit and had her hair tied behind her head during the hearing, did not show any signs of feeling while parents spoke of their agony.
She was supported in court by her mother and by Rosa Hicks, a Just Stop Oil activist who befriended Lecka while on remand at HMP Bronzefield over taking part in a plot to disrupt Heathrow Airport.
Smirking Montessori worker who attacked 21 toddlers is jailed
Cannabis-smoking Roksana Lecka, 22, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for attacking 21 infants as young as ten months at the Riverside Montessori nursery in Twickenham.
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Fury as elections watchdog throws lifeline to Starmer over claims his chief of staff 'hid' £730,000 in donation
Britain’s elections watchdog is facing a backlash after it rejected calls for a fresh investigation into claims Keir Starmer’s chief of staff ‘hid’ more than £700,000 in donations.In a controversial move, the Electoral Commission said it would not reassess why Morgan McSweeney failed to declare the donations to his think-tank Labour Together, which was instrumental in Sir Keir’s rise to the Labour leadership.
The move throws a lifeline to the Prime Minister, who has faced growing questions about his top aide's conduct in recent days.
It came despite the publication by the Daily Mail of a leaked email in which a top Labour lawyer advised Mr McSweeney to present the episode as an ‘admin error’.
Labour Together was fined £12,500 in September 2021 after the Electoral Commission found more than 20 breaches of donations law.
In a statement, the Electoral Commission said: ‘We investigated the late reporting of donations by Labour Together and published our findings in 2021. We determined multiple offences including those relating to the late reporting of donations with a cumulative value of £739,492, as well as the failure to appoint a responsible person. The fine was significant and reflects the seriousness of the offences determined, for which no reasonable excuse was put forward.
‘Earlier this week the Conservative Party wrote to us with concerns that other offences had been committed. We have thoroughly reviewed this information and found no evidence of any other potential offences. We are confident that the initial determination and sanction were appropriate.
‘We are therefore not reopening the investigation.’
The Conservatives had asked the Commission to assess whether Labour Together had committed a further offence by deliberately withholding information from the original inquiry, which would potentially be a criminal matter.
In a letter of reply, the watchdog said the offence did not apply because the original investigation was conducted on a voluntary basis.
The Conservatives have argued that Mr McSweeney should be brought to book for huge sums in 'hidden' donations.
Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake said the Electoral Commission had got it wrong.
Mr Hollinrake said: 'The Electoral Commission's decision not to investigate McSweeney is wrong. The Commission must now publish all of their Morgan McSweeney Files to ensure the public has full transparency.
'It is clear that Morgan McSweeney deceived the Electoral Commission, but has dodged a criminal offence on a technicality. This loophole won’t wash.
'The Conservatives uncovered clear evidence of McSweeney's industrial scale cover up of a slush fund used to install Keir Starmer as Labour Leader. Despite the denials of Labour and Nothing to See Here Keir, it is clear that the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff still has very serious questions to answer.
'This is not over, we will continue to reveal more evidence, and continue to push for a full investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner into Keir Starmer. The British public deserve the full truth, not another cover-up, and the Conservatives will continue to fight until they get that.'
The shock decision came after the Daily Mail revealed Mr McSweeney 'hid' a £50,000 donation on the very day he was told he had a legal duty to declare his funding.
Official documents reveal that Labour Together received the cash injection on the same day the Electoral Commission confirmed in writing that he was required by law to report all donations of more than £7,500.
Despite the warning that donations must be declared within 30 days, it was kept secret for more than three years, by which time Mr McSweeney was working as Sir Keir's chief of staff.
The news raises fresh questions about Labour Together's claim that its failure to report more than £730,000 in donations in a three-year period was the result of 'human error and administrative oversight'.
It came despite the publication by the Daily Mail of a leaked email in which a top Labour lawyer advised Mr McSweeney to present the episode as an ‘admin error’.
Labour Together was fined in September 2021 after the Electoral Commission found more than 20 breaches of donations law.
In a statement, the Electoral Commission said: ‘We investigated the late reporting of donations by Labour Together and published our findings in 2021. We determined multiple offences including those relating to the late reporting of donations with a cumulative value of £739,492, as well as the failure to appoint a responsible person. The fine was significant and reflects the seriousness of the offences determined, for which no reasonable excuse was put forward.
‘Earlier this week the Conservative Party wrote to us with concerns that other offences had been committed. We have thoroughly reviewed this information and found no evidence of any other potential offences. We are confident that the initial determination and sanction were appropriate.
‘We are therefore not reopening the investigation.’
The Conservatives had asked the Commission to assess whether Labour Together had committed a further offence by deliberately withholding information from the original inquiry, which would potentially be a criminal matter.
In a letter of reply, the watchdog said the offence did not apply because the original investigation was conducted on a voluntary basis.
The Conservatives have argued that Mr McSweeney should be brought to book for huge sums in 'hidden' donations.
Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake said the Electoral Commission had got it wrong.
Mr Hollinrake said: 'The Electoral Commission's decision not to investigate McSweeney is wrong. The Commission must now publish all of their Morgan McSweeney Files to ensure the public has full transparency.
'It is clear that Morgan McSweeney deceived the Electoral Commission, but has dodged a criminal offence on a technicality. This loophole won’t wash.
'The Conservatives uncovered clear evidence of McSweeney's industrial scale cover up of a slush fund used to install Keir Starmer as Labour Leader. Despite the denials of Labour and Nothing to See Here Keir, it is clear that the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff still has very serious questions to answer.
'This is not over, we will continue to reveal more evidence, and continue to push for a full investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner into Keir Starmer. The British public deserve the full truth, not another cover-up, and the Conservatives will continue to fight until they get that.'
The shock decision came after the Daily Mail revealed Mr McSweeney 'hid' a £50,000 donation on the very day he was told he had a legal duty to declare his funding.
Official documents reveal that Labour Together received the cash injection on the same day the Electoral Commission confirmed in writing that he was required by law to report all donations of more than £7,500.
Despite the warning that donations must be declared within 30 days, it was kept secret for more than three years, by which time Mr McSweeney was working as Sir Keir's chief of staff.
The news raises fresh questions about Labour Together's claim that its failure to report more than £730,000 in donations in a three-year period was the result of 'human error and administrative oversight'.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15136789/Fury-elections-watchdog-throws-lifeline-Starmer-claims-chief-staff-hid-730-000-donations.html
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Megapoll finds Nigel Farage on track for No10 as Labour crisis deepens: Reform could get 311 MPs at an election - with Labour losing more than 250 and the Tories slumping into FOURTH
Megapoll finds Nigel Farage on track for No10 as Labour crisis deepens
Reform would make the biggest surge in British political history if an election was held now, according to the YouGov research.
YouGov MRP shows a Reform UK government a near-certainty if an election were held tomorrow | YouGov
Second YouGov MRP model since the 2024 election projects Reform UK would win 311 seats, just 15 short of a majority
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Police officer who ripped Union Jack flag from anti-migrant protester is accused of 'two-tier' policing as Palestinian flags go undisturbed
Officer who snatched Union Jack flag accused of 'two-tier' policing
Hundreds of protesters marched through Newcastle city centre on Saturday because of what they described as a lack of government action on illegal immigration.
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Keir Starmer playing the race card against Farage is straight out of Macron's playbook,
At first sight, Keir Starmer's decision to play the race card against Nigel Farage appeared to drop out of a clear blue sky.'Do you think it's a racist policy,' the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg asked the Prime Minister on Sunday as they discussed Reform's plan to scrap indefinite leave to remain. Sir Keir hesitated, apparently weighing his response, before replying: 'Well, I do think it is a racist policy. I do think it's immoral.'
But what appeared to be a rare off-the-cuff answer from the PM was in fact part of a carefully calculated strategy borrowed directly from Emmanuel Macron's bruising battles with France's populist leader Marine le Pen.
In the days that followed, Cabinet ministers lined up to savage Mr Farage, with some directly accusing him of racism, and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy even claiming, with zero evidence, that he had 'flirted' with the Nazis – a deliberately poisonous claim which he had to retract within hours.
Sir Keir also used his speech at Labour's annual conference in Liverpool to ratchet up the rhetoric against Mr Farage, branding him an 'enemy' of Britain.
All of this was deliberate. After watching Labour slide further and further behind Reform in the opinion polls, ministers have abandoned their previous approach of simply trying to ignore the party.
Instead, they have turned to what has been dubbed the 'Le Pen strategy', borrowed from across the Channel.
The plan, which has been discussed at meetings of the Cabinet, involves demonising Mr Farage to such an extent that no 'decent' person would consider voting for him. It is no coincidence that the central message of Sir Keir's speech was that Britain is facing a 'fork in the road' between 'decency and division'.
Starmer playing race card against Farage is out of Macron's playbook
'Do you think it's a racist policy,' the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg asked the Prime Minister on Sunday as they discussed Reform's plan to scrap indefinite leave to remain.
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'He went to kill my people, my community': Broadcaster, Emma Barnett, who calls Manchester home tells of stomach-churning moment her phone lit up with a terror attack alert
- 'I cry for the community.
- I cry for the people who have been killed and their families.
- I cry out of fear and for what such hate can do.
- But I also cry out of sheer rage, indignation and horror,' she wrote.
Comment: It would only be appropriate to offer the broadcaster our deepest sympathies; with the slaughter of two UK innocent civilians her life in the UK may now be hell on earth.
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Thu 21 Aug 2025 14.30 BST: The GardianFigures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
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Rapist who 'married' a 15-year-old girl in sharia law ceremony attended by her social worker is jailed alongside seven other grooming gang members for a combined 91 years
A rapist who married a 15-year-old girl in a sharia law ceremony attended by her social worker has been jailed alongside seven other grooming gang members.Raja Zulqurnean, 42, married the then-schoolgirl in Bradford, West Yorkshire in the early 2000s after she was placed into the foster care of his family, a court heard.
In May this year, Zulqurnean was found guilty of ten rapes and nine indecent assaults and sentenced to 18 years in jail.
He was also given a lifetime restraining order and Sexual Harm Prevention Order, and will remain on the sex offender register for life.
However, his sentence was increased from 18 years to 23 years after being referred to the Court of Appeal for being unduly lenient.
On Friday, a Bradford Crown Court Judge Ahmed Nadim jailed seven more of the victim's attackers after they were convicted of multiple counts of rape and sexual abused.
Prosecutors said she was groomed and sexually exploited by 18 known men in the Bradford area, but claim that figure is 'just the tip of the iceberg' as many more of her abusers have never been identified and brought to justice.
One of the girl's social workers is said to have even attended the Islamic wedding ceremony which saw the minor get married against her will.
Raja Zulqurnean
Mohammed Naheem
Mohammed Shezhad Hussain
Basharat Khaliq
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