What They Don’t Want You to See
The truth revealed in the latest Freedom of Information requests
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There is a reason why some of the most revealing facts about modern Britain do not come from government press releases, ministerial speeches, mainstream media.
They come from Freedom of Information requests.
Again and again - as I have shown you - it is only when independent journalists and researchers force the British state’s hand that we learn what is really going on — beyond the carefully managed narratives on the BBC and in Westminster.
And the latest data on crime on Britain’s transport network is a case in point.
Because once you strip away the spin, the message is stark.
Foreign nationals — in particular asylum seekers — are dramatically overrepresented in arrests on Britain’s railways. Not by a small margin. Not by statistical noise.
But by margins so large they raise serious questions about public safety, policy failure, and why the British people are, once again, being kept in the dark.
According to data obtained from the British Transport Police through Freedom of Information requests, and shared by the independent Centre for Migration Control, foreign nationals accounted for nearly 38% of all arrests on Britain’s railways last year — despite making up only 10% of the population.
The figure becomes even more extraordinary when you look at specific crimes.
Almost 80% of arrests for theft of passenger property involved foreign nationals. And more than a third of arrests for violence and sexual offences did, too.
When it comes to asylum seekers, the picture is starker still.
On a per-capita basis, asylum seekers were up to seven times more likely to be arrested on the rail network than the British people.
This is not conjecture. It is not ideology. It is not “stoking the culture wars”. It is what the actual data show us once it is prised from the state and dragged into the light.
So the obvious question is this: why are we only hearing about this now?
Why do these figures emerge only after Freedom of Information requests — rather than being proactively published by the Home Office, the Department for Transport, or the police, much like they are made publicly available b other European nations?
Why is the public expected to trust institutions that appear reluctant to disclose basic facts about crime, safety, and public order? And why - whenever this data does surface- is the first instinct of the political and media class to either downplay it, or ignore it altogether?
The answer is uncomfortable but increasingly obvious.
Because the moment you acknowledge these figures, you are forced to confront the consequences of a political consensus that has treated mass immigration as an unquestionable good — while refusing to deal honestly with its spiralling costs.
You are forced to ask why ordinary British commuters are expected to tolerate rising levels of theft, intimidation, and disorder on trains while being told that raising such concerns is “divisive”, “irresponsible”, or “stoking culture wars”.
You are forced to ask why working people are told by their own leaders to accept declining safety on public transport as the price of “compassion” and “tolerance”.
And you are forced to ask why the state appears more concerned with managing headlines than managing borders.
None of this means every migrant commits crime. Of course not. Nor does it mean that poverty, trauma, or background play no role in the disproportionate figures.
But none of that explains away numbers that are this lopsided — nor does it justify the culture of silence surrounding them.
What is most striking is not just the data itself, but how hard it had to be fought for.
In a healthy democracy, information about crime trends would be routinely and regularly published, openly debated, and used to inform policy.
Instead, in the UK, where politicians berate voters for being “misinformed” while deliberately keeping them in the dark, information like this has to be prised out of the state through Freedom of Information requests.
That tells you something important.
It tells you that the real scandal is not just what is happening on Britain’s railways — but how little trust the public is afforded to judge the situation for themselves.
When the state only tells people the truth after being forced to do so, it is no longer governing openly and transparently. It is managing perception.
And when the media refuse to ask obvious questions about data that affects millions of people every day, it ceases to be a watchdog and becomes a shield.
If Britain is serious about restoring trust, public safety, and democratic accountability, then it must start with something very simple: Stop hiding the facts.
Because once people start to see what is really going on, they will begin to understand why so many no longer believe the official story that is being presented to us in BBC-Westminster Land.
They will start to question the grim reality that surrounds them and the narratives that are imposed on them from above. And they will do so not on the basis of fantasy or ideology but hard evidence of the kind this newsletter will never stop sharing.
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We are sliding into an undemocratic state where we are governed by people who are not elected and therefore not accountable. The Blob, which has taken on a life of its own and is expanding, is unaccountable, woke and arrogant. Both major parties decided that this was what they wanted, the Conservatives with ineptness and laziness and Labour with total incompetence and spite: both parties must go - the Conservatives left to die quietly and Labour needs to be ejected asap.
Thank you Matt. Once again it takes a FOI from you to highlight important information that should be available. The more they hide the facts from us, the angrier we get when the truth emerges.