Today I am delighted to announce the launch of DOGE UK, officially Doge Project Ltd, a taskforce that aims to enhance government efficiency and transparency.
DOGE UK, whose name is inspired by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the United States, is an extension of my Substack project Woke Waste, which charts how the taxpayer funds their own demise.
Woke Waste started in 2023 when I stumbled on the fact that the taxpayer had been charged £668,244 for the study ‘Pregnant Men: An International Exploration of Trans Male Experiences and Practices of Reproduction’ (which somehow took four years to investigate at two different universities).
I soon found myself going down a gigantic rabbit hole, uncovering even more taxpayer-funded horrors. Here are 10 examples:
- £841,830 on ‘The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000’ at Birmingham City University
- £100 million towards USAID
- £3.5 million towards an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion caucus at Heriot-Watt University
- £243,360 on the research project ‘Buzzers for Bedwetters: Incontinence and the Urinary Body in Britain, 1870-1970’
- £2,947,162 towards the ‘Decolonising Arts Institute’ at the University of London
- £81,878 on a study into “extending burlesque’s protect and deregulated spaces as good practice”
- £136,909 on the research project ‘Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives’
- £113,220 towards the Vagina Museum
- Nearly £1.4 million towards The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, a charity that explicitly believes in open borders
- £141,380 towards Hope Not Hate Charitable Trust, which funds Hope Not Hate’s private arm (the one that constantly hounds anyone to the Right of Jeremy Corbyn)
It soon became clear to me that there was an enormous amount of waste to uncover; certainly more than I could audit as a one-woman operation.
Luckily, as Woke Waste grew, I received countless offers of help – people volunteering their free time to join in the fight against woke insanity, funded by hard-working taxpayers.
In fact, I had so many messages I could barely reply to them all! Which brings me on to how important volunteers have been – including the amazing Melanie Buila who, for months, has answered my DOGE inboxes. Melanie reached out to me at an event and the rest is history.
I’m also very grateful to Lee Taylor, Managing Director at marketing agency Uncommon Sense, and his team. Thanks to their support, DOGE UK now has a website and marketing strategy in place.
And another fantastic addition to DOGE UK has been Richard Palmer, Co-Founder at Fair Job UK, who has whipped us into shape with incredible speed and expertise.
Richard’s help has been invaluable and a huge part of why I am writing today to say DOGE UK is raring to go.
So what’s the plan?
DOGE UK will be a turbo-powered version of Woke Waste.
We will be:
- Auditing government waste at a central and local level
- Mapping Left-wing networks (extending on the work of my brilliant voluntary map team, led by Sean Edwards) to show how democracy is being undermined by coordinated and/or well-funded political actors
- Expanding at every opportunity we see fit, so as to extend the remit of waste/political funding we cover, and our reach
Ultimately we want to raise the roof about Woke Waste, so that policymakers have no choice but to change the system, and to fight for a better Britain.
How can you help (if you want to)?
If you’d like to support Woke Waste, we have opened up donations on the website. Donations will go towards the operational costs of DOGE UK, such as salaries, equipment and administrative expenses, and anything else to support the company’s aims.
Our plan is to seek further funding from investors and/or organisations who support DOGE UK’s mission, in order to upscale further.
Fundamentally we want a better, fairer Britain – with more take-home pay!
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Whist not wishing to appear a party-pooper, identifying Woke waste and compiling DOGE targets in order to ‘raise the roof’, whilst laudable in itself, I cant help but think ·”what if the those in a position to address the problems stick their collective fingers in their ears and simply ignore you?” (As is their response to any criticism thus far).
The point is surely to raise general public awareness of this stuff, to cover the wider normie population, get these issues into the mainstream, so that political will be less able to ignore the issue.
Like Pakistani rape gangs for instance? Tin eared through and through.
Many will remember that issue when we next come to vote.
Also when money is tight, politicians might ‘be reminded’ where there is still some low hanging fruit.
I am pleased to see this initiative, but The Zealots That Be are well versed in ignoring inconvenient truths, or fabricating some other diversion. My suggestion is that you identify instances of waste and regard them as bundles of evidence for other people to use in legal cases, or as briefs for amicus curiae.
The main objective of this initiative should be to get a formal endorsement and pledge to act from one of the mahor political parties.
That would give it legs and supporters hope that something will come of it.
I suppose you need plenty of grassroots support for that to happen.
Farage said recently he thought a UK version of DOGE would be a good thing. But what is the use of him saying that if it isn’t Reform policy?
Laudable initiative. Corollary – calling out feeble-minded wastrels, wasters and windbags promoting woke waste in the first place.
Chattering capturers of politics, media, universities, uncivil service and any number of other institutions…
“…Hastiness and superficiality—these are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.”
(Alexander Solzhenytsin, 1918 – 2008)
Psychic infection only got worse into the next century – witness self-styled elite consumed by luxury-beliefs, daft ideas and vain follies rooted in unreality.
Cease not from Mental Fight.
Look into the Planning Inspectorate (“PINS”) which takes far longer to examine appeals than it claims. It’s performance reports are not up to date (a fault throughout local and national government) snd the consequences for the public are serious.
A fantastic initiative good for you!
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Well spotted. There does appear to be a lot of overlap.
If any organisation has done the work to determine where the chainsaw’s needed, it’s the TPA.
And as David Starkey has said, trimming existing State functions is just rearranging the deckchairs. The State needs to divest itself of whole areas of involvement. Whole limbs need to be removed, not just a few low-hanging fruit tickled. Never happen of course.
Indeed I doubt it will happen. I am not aware it has happened anywhere really. Trump is only really fiddling around at the edges – in part at least because that’s all he has the power to do. To a lesser extent I think the same applies to Milei.
It is all a matter of perception. I see the school of woke as just an obviously more bizarre extension of the generally held indoctrinated cult belief in the legitimacy and utility of ‘the state’. Woke is a direct consequence. So is war. So is the ‘state’ approved and encouraged murder of the unborn. It is a mad system so don’t be surprised when you catch a glimpse of madness for yourself – I see it everywhere, all abound. For me it is like living in a zombi world. Once you see the reality it can never unseen again.
It all needs to go back to first principles. There are many things the state could do and depending on your politics, there are many things the state should do, but there are actually very few things the state has to do. Not that they’ll ever get round to thinking that way.
Indeed. The way I have come round to looking at it is this: The state coerces money from us. We do get something in return, but the amount of control we have over what they money is spent on and the scope of state activity is arguably minimal. We can vote which indicates a general direction but this is somewhat negated by the emergence of the Uniparty. Even if we agree with a lot of what they money is spent on (I don’t), there will be others who strongly disagree. Even in the best case scenario, the minority are forced to go along with some idea of the “public good”. Morally I think the bar for when it’s OK to demand money with menaces should be pretty high. We’ve become so used to Big Government that people struggle to imagine a world without it.
Good luck.
What is the mechanism for preventing these massive wastes of taxpayer’s money? Are our MP’s aware of this stupidity and if they are, why are they not preventing such waste?
Surely there should be a committee of MP’s responsible for publicising applications for grants of government money and refusing them when appropriate with public reasons, which might simply be “This is stupid!”