Welcome to The Truth Ledger
For too long, councils, government departments, HMRC, the Treasury, and their friends in Whitehall have hidden behind jargon, accounting tricks, and half-answers. They borrow billions from the Public Works Loan Board (PWLB), raise council tax, cut services, and tell the public there is “no money left.” Meanwhile, the books show multi-million-pound surpluses, property investments, and clever accounting that shifts losses out of sight.
The Truth Ledger is here to break that open.
We will use Freedom of Information requests, published accounts, Companies House records, and data from every corner we can reach to expose:
How councils borrow billions from PWLB while claiming financial crisis.
How taxpayers are double, triple, and even quadruple taxed — through council tax, income tax, VAT, hidden service charges, and then again when their money backstops PWLB loan repayments.
How subsidiary companies and property investment schemes are quietly set up, often booking paper losses while debt piles onto the public.
How HM Treasury, HMRC, and the Bank of England design systems where the numbers never add up for ordinary people — but always add up for government and the financial class.
How politicians, regulators, and even the police play their part in protecting the system rather than the public.
How the flag fiasco and other cultural distractions are used to divide people while real financial issues are hidden.
How even the Prime Minister’s oath and accountability are skirted, leaving the public without real representation.
This project will track the money and the power. Every FOI response, every council loan, every property deal, every tax increase — all logged, audited, and explained in plain English. Where councils say “no subsidiaries,” we will check Companies House. Where government says “funding pressures,” we will pull the accounts to see if the surpluses prove otherwise.
And we won’t stop there: all FOI results, every piece of evidence, and every request for internal review will be published openly on The Truth Ledger so the public can see the full paper trail.
Why the name?
Because the official ledgers — council accounts, Treasury statements, HMRC reports — are designed to obscure. The Truth Ledger will lay them side by side, expose the contradictions, and show the public what’s really going on with their money.
What’s coming next
This is just the start. Over the coming weeks, you’ll see investigations into:
How “surpluses” vanish into reserves while council tax rises.
The hidden network of council-controlled companies.
The Treasury’s double, triple, quadruple taxing model.
The wider political distractions — from flag rows to oaths ignored — that keep attention off the real issues.
And this work is not limited to the above. Wherever public money, public trust, or political accountability is in question, The Truth Ledger will follow the trail.
We’ll publish the documents, the numbers, and the patterns they try to hide.
If they won’t keep an honest ledger, we will. Welcome to The Truth Ledger.
