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:

1. £841,830 on ‘The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000’ at Birmingham City University 
2. £100 million towards USAID
3. £3.5 million towards an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion caucus at Heriot-Watt University
4. £243,360 on the research project ‘Buzzers for Bedwetters: Incontinence and the Urinary Body in Britain, 1870-1970’
5. £2,947,162 towards the ‘Decolonising Arts Institute’ at the University of London
6. £81,878 on a study into “extending burlesque’s protect and deregulated spaces as good practice”
7. £136,909 on the research project ‘Perverse Collections: Building Europe’s Queer and Trans Archives’
8. £113,220 towards the Vagina Museum
9. Nearly £1.4 million towards The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, a charity that explicitly believes in open borders
10. £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!
To support our mission, please find the DOGE UK website here.