The Peter McCormack Show
#212 - Callum Smiles - "They Are Stealing The Country": Border Gangs, Fake Deliveroo Accounts & The Civil War
- The UK immigration system operates as a sophisticated criminal enterprise, with traffickers charging £3,000 per seat on boats to the UK, using TikTok and Snapchat to advertise routes, and deliberately overselling capacity to mix handlers with migrants.
- Government procurement waste and lack of accountability enable systemic overcharging: a single air freshener cost £75, moving three beds cost £676, yet no one faces consequences because taxpayer money has no personal stake.
- NGOs in Northern France (Utopia 56, La Vie Active, Secours Catholique) distribute resources including condoms and tents to migrant camps, with £324.8 million in lottery grants since 2004 funding migration and asylum programs rather than domestic UK excellence.
- The Annington Homes deal exemplifies corruption: the MOD sold 57,000 properties for £1.662 billion in 1996, then leased them back for 200 years, and finally repurchased 36,347 for £6 billion in 2024—leaving taxpayers billions worse off.
- Delivery driver accounts (Deliveroo, Uber Eats) are systematically exploited by criminal gangs who rent profiles to illegal workers and use them for drug distribution and burglary scouting, costing genuine drivers income and safety.
- The Wyvern Fellowship proposes parallel institutions—non-partisan, community-based networks offering legal aid, mutual economic support, and cultural preservation—to replace failed government functions and rebuild local civil society independent of the state.