
Lee Nallalingham
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I look in to where our money really goes and what the data really shows.
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🚨 HMRC took £90.4 BILLION more from taxpayers last year. That comes directly from the National Audit Office. In just one year, HMRC collected 10.3% more tax - an extra £90.4 billion! Thanks in part to frozen tax thresholds, 1.1 million more people were dragged into paying Income Tax. So HMRC clearly has no problem taking more money from you. What it does have, is a problem passing audit. For the 24th year in a row, auditors were unable to give HMRC a completely clean audit because they found significant levels of fraud and error. And now Andy Burnham is reportedly considering another £38 billion of tax rises. How about before taking another penny from taxpayers… …they stop the fraud and error and prove they can properly manage the record amounts we’re already paying?
Lee Nallalingham141,621 views • 24 days ago

🚨 4 councils signed 83 contracts worth £13 MILLION for taxis last week. Every week I go through newly awarded public-sector contracts, and one thing keeps appearing: council taxi contracts. So last week I decided to add them up. 4 councils. 83 contracts. £13 million. And I’m not singling these councils out. This is a nationwide problem. Councils across the country are now spending around £2 BILLION a year transporting SEND children to school. To be absolutely clear: SEND children who need help getting to school should get it. My issue is with the councils. The law requires them to provide suitable transport. It does not require councils to default to taxis. Yet councils keep on spending money on taxis. The result? The latest figures show transporting a SEND pupil by taxi or private hire costs an average £10,700 a year… …compared with around £1,700 for mainstream council-funded school transport. School buses. Shared transport. Working with schools and parents. There are plenty of alternatives. Instead, councils keep signing off millions in taxi contracts, the bill keeps growing… …and taxpayers are expected to keep picking up the tab.
Lee Nallalingham103,072 views • 18 days ago

🚨 HMRC has failed its audit for the 24th year in a row. That’s according to the National Audit Office’s latest report into the department’s finances. Auditors were unable to give HMRC a clean audit because they found material levels of fraud and error in benefit expenditure. Yes, you read that correctly. The department responsible for collecting our taxes has failed its audit for 24 consecutive years because of fraud and error. Meanwhile, this Labour Government has already increased taxes by £70 billion. And Prime Minister Andy Burnham is reportedly considering another £38 billion of tax rises. How about before taking another penny from taxpayers… …HMRC stops the fraud and error and manages to pass an audit for the first time in 24 years?
Lee Nallalingham130,515 views • 27 days ago

🚨 Northumberland Council has signed off £240,000 for VAPES. For context, the council is almost £900 MILLION in debt. It raised council tax by the maximum amount again this year because apparently it needs more of your tax money. Yet it has now signed off £240,000 for vapes for people who want to stop smoking. You genuinely couldn’t make it up. No wonder they’re almost £900 million in debt.
Lee Nallalingham36,301 views • 11 days ago

🚨 Darlington Council has signed off TWELVE translation contracts worth up to £720,000. Seriously, why?! Darlington has around 107,000 residents. Roughly 8,400 weren’t born in the UK. And of course, many of those people will speak English. Yet somehow the council has signed off 12 separate translation contracts worth up to £60,000 each. No wonder the council is £170m in debt! Then remember… We all carry a device in our pocket that can translate almost any language in seconds for free. Yet our public sector continues spending tens of millions on translation every year. Honestly… what are we doing?
Lee Nallalingham105,127 views • 1 month ago

🚨 Auditors have REFUSED to sign off the Government’s accounts. That comes directly from the National Audit Office. They’ve issued what’s known as a disclaimer of opinion. That’s audit speak for: “We can’t verify the numbers.” This is the same Government that has: 💰 Put taxes up by £70 billion. 💰 Borrowed £270 billion 💰 Told us there still isn’t enough money to properly fund our Armed Forces. Yet their own auditors are saying they can’t verify the accounts. And remember… This is the same National Audit Office that has found up to £81 billion a year is lost through fraud and error. Can you imagine if this was a private business? It would be shutdown and investigated There are those who want to tax us more and give these people even more money. I have a different idea. How about we start looking into where all the money is actually going? Because if the auditors are refusing to sign off the accounts… …and the National Audit Office says up to £81 billion is lost through fraud and error every year… …perhaps the problem isn’t that taxpayers aren’t paying enough. Perhaps it’s that nobody seems to know where the money is going.
Lee Nallalingham102,405 views • 1 month ago

🚨 Gloucestershire NHS spent over £750,000 to replace a bedroom door. Yes, you read that right. The hospital has 88 rooms. Even if they replaced every bedroom door at £5,000 each, the total wouldn’t come close to £750k. Once again, those running the NHS are setting fire to taxpayers’ money while pretending the problem is “lack of funding.” Meanwhile GP appointments take weeks, A&E waits take hours, and frontline staff are stretched to breaking point. The NHS doesn’t have a funding problem, it has a spending problem.
Lee Nallalingham437,476 views • 9 months ago

💰 The Government has signed off £800,000 to support Vietnam’s net zero targets. Seriously, what are we doing? Energy bills have now gone up six times under this government. Millions of British households are struggling with the cost of living. Yet somehow we have nearly £800,000 available to help another country pursue its Net Zero ambitions. I like Vietnam. It’s a fantastic country. But if Vietnam wants to invest in its energy transition, surely Vietnam should pay for it. British taxpayers have enough bills of their own.
Lee Nallalingham83,112 views • 2 months ago

🚨 The Government has failed its audit for the third year in a row. That comes directly from the National Audit Office. They have put our taxes up by £70 billion while telling us there isn’t enough money. Yet the National Audit Office that has examined the Whole of Government Accounts, covering around 10,000 public bodies… …and concluded the Government cannot pass its audit. It’s also the same National Audit Office that has previously found up to £81 billion a year is lost through fraud and error. There are those who say the answer is to pay more tax. Here’s a better idea. If the Government can’t pass an audit, and up to £81 billion a year is being lost through fraud and error… …perhaps we should start paying attention to where our money is actually going.
Lee Nallalingham61,593 views • 1 month ago

🚨 HMRC has now FAILED its audit for more than 20 years. The National Audit Office has again qualified HMRC’s accounts because of material levels of fraud and error. They have not been able to pass their audit cleanly since tax credits were introduced in 2003/04 due to material levels of fraud and error. Look at the state of our public sector: ❌ HMRC has failed audit for 20+ years ❌ DWP has failed audit for 37 years ❌ The Cabinet Office can’t provide evidence for £7 BILLION of spending. These are the institutions that take your money, spend your money and tell you there isn’t enough of it. If any normal organisation failed its audit year after year, there would be consequences. In government, it just carries on. And then they tell you taxes need to go up.
Lee Nallalingham162,882 views • 5 months ago

🚨 Northumbria NHS just spent £130,000 on one mobile phone contract. And Rachel Reeves has the nerve to tell us she’s had to hike our taxes by £70 billion because there “isn’t enough money” for frontline services. Meanwhile the public sector is happily signing off £20,000 for a coffee machine and six-figures for a mobile phone renewal without blinking. We’re being bled dry while they burn our money like it grows on trees.
Lee Nallalingham252,339 views • 9 months ago

💰 Bath & North East Somerset Council has signed off a £53,500 contract for vapes. Yes…Vapes. This is a council that’s almost £300 million in debt. They’ve put up council tax by the maximum amount, telling residents they don’t have enough money. Yet they’re planning to spend more than £50,000 on vapes. What’s even more interesting… They’ve classified this as a health and social care expense. You constantly hear people defending council spending because so much of it goes on health and social care. But if councils are putting £53,500 of vapes into those budgets… …what else is being hidden in them?
Lee Nallalingham48,155 views • 1 month ago

🚨 There was a £23.3 BILLION black hole in government finances in May. Since coming to power in July 2024, the government has now borrowed roughly £268.1 BILLION. Breakdown: 💰 Jul 2024 to Mar 2025: £90.5bn 💰 Apr 2025 to Mar 2026: £129.0bn 💰 Apr 2026 to May 2026: £47.6bn So I’m not quite sure why ministers keep claiming borrowing is “falling”… …because the numbers show the opposite. Labour are lying again.
Lee Nallalingham68,092 views • 2 months ago

🚨 Auditors found £6.8 BILLION of fraud involving DWP. That’s according to the National Audit Office’s latest report. That works out at £18.6 million every single day. Every day you went to work, paid your taxes and did the right thing… …almost £19 million was being lost to benefit fraud. Yet this is the same department that hasn’t passed an audit since 1988. And instead of fixing the system first, the Government plans to spend another £70 billion on benefits while increasing taxes to pay for it Surely the priority should be stopping the fraud before asking taxpayers for another penny.
Lee Nallalingham34,165 views • 1 month ago

🚨 70% of council spending goes to just 2% of the population. A newly elected councillor reached out to me recently. His council’s finances are a complete mess and he wanted some advice on where to start looking. We discussed debt levels, deficits and spending priorities at length. But one figure stood out above everything else. 70% of spending goes to just 2% of residents. And suddenly a lot of things started making sense. ❌ Rising council tax ❌ Cuts to services used by everyone When 70% of your budget is being consumed by just 2% of residents, the maths simply doesn’t work.
Lee Nallalingham76,031 views • 2 months ago

💰 Derby City Council has signed off £53,000 on furniture for their upstairs balcony. This is a council with over £600 million of debt. They’ve just put council tax up by the maximum amount, claiming there isn’t enough money. Yet somehow… …they can justify spending over £50,000 on tables and chairs for the balcony upstairs. Our tax money is a joke to these people.
Lee Nallalingham47,275 views • 1 month ago

🚨 Labour donors were awarded £138 MILLION of government contracts… …during Keir Starmer’s first year as Prime Minister. While Labour were telling you there was a £22 billion black hole. While they were putting your taxes up by £70 billion. Somehow there was still £138 million available for Labour donors through government contracts. Labour spent years accusing other parties of looking after their friends. It turns out, they have done the exact same thing.
Lee Nallalingham28,558 views • 1 month ago

🚨 There are nearly 1.5 million migrants on benefits in Britain. My question is simple: Why? This is not about attacking migrants for claiming benefits. It was our politicians who decided non-citizens should be entitled to them in the first place. in most countries around the world, this simply is not normal. If you move abroad, you are expected to support yourself, work, and contribute. Benefits systems are usually designed as a safety net for citizens who fall on hard times and need help. I have lived as an immigrant in Singapore myself. I had no access to benefits, nor did I expect them. I was there to work and if I couldn’t support myself I would be sent home. So why has Britain created a system where such huge numbers of non-citizens rely on taxpayer-funded support? This should not be a controversial question.
Lee Nallalingham72,697 views • 3 months ago

🚨 Nearly 500 public bodies couldn’t properly account for taxpayers’ money. That’s according to the National Audit Office which has refused to sign off the Government’s accounts for the third year in a row. It found ❌ 338 public bodies had unaudited accounts ❌ 145 failed to provide the any information at all. That’s 483 public organisations where auditors couldn’t fully verify the figures. Yet every time there’s a hole in the public finances, we’re told the answer is higher taxes. Before asking taxpayers for another penny… …surely the Government should have to prove where our tax money has gone?
Lee Nallalingham27,701 views • 1 month ago

🚨 There were 3,936 rapes reported in London in just the first 151 days of 2026. That comes directly from the Metropolitan Police’s own data. And over the last 12 months, the Met’s figures show: ⬆️ Rape up ⬆️ Sexual offences up ⬆️ Stalking and harassment up Yet Sadiq Khan claims it’s “misinformation” to say crime in London is getting worse. So I have a very simple question. Are the Metropolitan Police spreading misinformation? Or is Sadiq Khan lying?
Lee Nallalingham42,200 views • 2 months ago