#116 - Jamie Jenkins - Why the UK Is Failing, The Data Doesn't Lie
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
Jamie Jenkins is a former statistician at the ONS and BBC, now known for exposing the government's spin through hard data.
We cover:
– Why CPI doesn't reflect real inflation
– What's broken in the NHS & who's to blame
– Energy price lies & Net Zero distortions
– The truth about migration, jobs & economic growth
– Public sector bloat & collapsing productivity
– Why crime stats don't match what people feel
– How politicians lie & the data exposes them
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:03:52 – Jamie's Stats Background
00:07:51 – Right vs Wrong, Not Politics
00:12:02 – Private Sector Is Tanking
00:18:45 – Data Illiteracy in Journalism
00:21:00 – Wealth Taxes Are Political Bait
00:25:45 – Immigration Truths
00:28:00 – Energy Market Is Rigged
00:38:40 – Tribalism Over Water
00:43:30 – Inflation Metrics Manipulation
00:52:13 – £288bn Public Sector Pay
00:56:30 – Minimum Wage Reality
01:03:45 – Economic Sabotage by Labour
01:07:50 – Immigration & Employment Reality
01:12:25 – Unemployment
01:14:20 – We Are Stealing the Future
01:18:34 – Housing Crisis
01:25:00 – NHS Isn't World Class
01:37:36 – Crime Stats vs Reality
01:45:00 – Public Order Arrests Surge
01:47:51 – Labour's Police State
01:54:31 – More Politicians = More Waste
02:01:18 – Reform, PR & Welsh Elections
02:08:30 – FOI Act = Real Win
02:11:05 – Closing Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | All the people coming over on small boats and then we've had the issues with the Bell Hotel |
| 0:04.0 | and then Stama this week saying I want to get everybody out of the hotels. |
| 0:07.6 | While the government gone to court last week then to stop people being taken out of hotels, |
| 0:12.0 | you know we want action rather than words. And that's where they kept talking about is we're |
| 0:16.8 | refugees welcome, we're a nation of and and the thing on just as we |
| 0:21.1 | brought that point up that and I got the figures here so we had a hundred and |
| 0:25.1 | ten thousand record asylum claims if you look at the latest figures now I think |
| 0:29.1 | we've got 32,000 asylum seekers in hotels how many how many people need to go |
| 0:34.9 | to work to pay for the asylum accommodation? |
| 0:38.3 | Okay? |
| 0:39.3 | So it was basically, when you add the numbers, 4.7 billion pounds were spent, |
| 0:43.3 | 4.7 billion on the asylum accommodation alone. |
| 0:46.3 | So if you then work out what the average wage of the economy is, |
| 0:49.3 | and you look at the national insurance and the tax, |
| 0:52.3 | 600,000 people have got to go out and get out of bed every single morning. |
| 0:57.3 | All of the tax for those 600,000 people has to go to just pay for that 4.7 billion. |
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