They made the promises. Here are the receipts.

Promises vs receipts

What they said they'd do. What they actually did. What it cost you. Every promise checked against the official receipt, and the ones they kept are here too.

The economy & the cost of living

Record taxes. £110bn a year on debt interest. Prices up 31% in five years, and your pay barely above where it was in 2008. The squeeze, in the government's own numbers.

The NHS, standards vs delivery

You pay £215bn a year for the NHS. It misses every one of its own big targets. Here's each one, the promise, the reality, and whether it's actually getting better.

Housing & homelessness

They promised 1.5 million homes. Year one delivered 208,600, while record numbers of families, and children, live in temporary housing you pay for.

Courts & prisons

Almost a year from offence to courtroom. Prisons 96% full. Over 60,000 prisoners let out early because they ran out of space. Justice, delayed and rationed, by the Ministry of Justice's own count.

Schools & children

Crumbling classrooms with a £13.8bn repair bill. A special-needs system the auditors call unsustainable. Half of families waiting longer than the law allows. Your kids' schools, by the government's own count, including what's genuinely improving.

Energy bills & net zero

They promised £300 OFF your energy bill by 2030. So far you're paying £294 MORE. Standing charges alone have doubled. Here's the scoreboard, straight from Ofgem.

The Channel & the border

Small boats, counted daily. Who arrives, what happens next, and what the official count can and can't tell you.

Migration in the round

Who actually comes to Britain, on what visa, and what happens next, the record inflows, the fall since, and the loudest claims checked.

Asylum accommodation

Asylum hotels cost you £2.1bn a year. Where people are placed, who profits, and what it really costs, audited numbers, not rumours.

Asylum: costs & contributions

The real asylum bill, the welfare budget it gets confused with, and what migrants pay in. Both sides of the ledger, so you can judge for yourself.

The full ledger, what it really costs

'What does immigration really cost?' There is no single official number, anyone who gives you one is guessing. Here's the honest ledger, both sides. (The £4.9bn you hear quoted is the asylum system alone.)

The understated cost, what they don't count

The real cost of immigration is bigger than the headline, council bills nobody counts, visa routes that lose money for life, an ageing crisis migration only delays. Bigger than they admit. Smaller than the scare stories. Here's what the state's own numbers show.

Waste, fraud & error

£55–81bn of your money lost to fraud and error every year. £6.6bn simply written off. About £481m ever recovered. Nobody sacked, nothing fixed, the auditors' own words, itemised.

Broken Britain, the wider failures

Your council, going broke. 39 needed emergency bailouts this year; council tax rose at double inflation anyway. Plus Brexit promises vs the receipts, and covid contracts a court ruled unlawful. Every figure audited or court-tested.

Who lives here

Who actually lives in Britain, by birthplace, nationality, religion and fertility. The real numbers behind the loudest claims.

Crime & justice

What the crime data can honestly tell you about immigration, and what it can't. No invented statistics, in either direction.

Policing

How many officers there actually are, how that has moved since 2010, and what happens after a crime is reported. Home Office counts, not force press releases.

Water & sewage

Every storm overflow in England is monitored now, so the sewage count is a complete count rather than a sample. Spills fell sharply in 2025, in a year the Environment Agency itself calls unusually dry. Bills went up anyway.

Transport & major projects

One train in every thirty-one cancelled, a high-speed line that will not reach Euston until the 2040s, and a fares freeze the government did deliver. The good and the bad, from the regulator's own counts.

Defence & the armed forces

Two pledges, 2.5% of GDP by 2027 and 3.5% by 2035, against what the country actually spends and how many people are actually in uniform. For the first time in years, more joined than left.

Welfare & benefits

The largest single thing the state does with your money, and the one most argued about with the fewest actual numbers. What is spent, who receives it, what is lost to fraud and error, and what is quietly underpaid.

Social care

The service that decides whether hospital beds free up, whether families cope, and whether old age is survivable on an ordinary income. Nearly half of it is spent on working-age adults, which almost nobody expects.

Parliament & representation

Who represents you, and the rules about who can. The measurable facts, not the memes.

Immigration law & rules

The laws and rule changes shaping immigration and asylum right now, what each one actually did, not what it was sold as.

Challenging the data

Where the official numbers are late, revised or simply missing, and how to check them yourself. When a stat is shaky, we say so.