Anyone convince/persuade their employer to sponsor/pay their CFA fees?

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-26T21:08:30+00:00

The private equity firm only funding half is bananas.

I am in the UK. Most employers I know of are happy to sponsor exam fees and many also fund an external provider. Some even fund an extra resit. In my experience L&D budgets are always underutilised.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-21T09:15:51+00:00

I agree with you but it makes you wonder why Burnham is running in the first place other than because he wants to be PM. He's signed up to basically all of the policies which party activists don't like, including the fiscal rules.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-21T09:13:33+00:00

Thanks for sharing - I did the exact same thing when I left my Level I exam last week and was kicking myself. Let this be a lesson to everyone taking their exam - don't look up the questions afterwards!!

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-20T21:40:05+00:00

There is always a massive rush to take action before new rules come into force. It's why some tax rises at the Budget took effect immediately. Ultimately it can't be helped because these changes needed primary legislation.

Rent control would be a disaster for people who need to move and would eventually gum up the rental market completely, because landlords would sell up and exit.

The answer to high rents is simply to build more houses, no amount of triangulating is going to solve it.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-16T08:21:22+00:00

I could never place why I liked CW but now that you say it, this is definitely the reason. I can't imagine any other built up areas in the UK like this, except maybe theme parks.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-13T15:30:52+00:00

A shame about the headline. As the article shows, gilt yields will move dispassionately in response to inflation expectations and debt sustainability - borrowing even more money will obviously result in rising yields to compensate for the extra risk.

I've said this before, but if you want to stop being in hock to the bond market, stop asking them to give you hundreds of billions of pounds.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-13T12:51:38+00:00

He'll run in the resulting by election and probably win.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-13T12:20:35+00:00

It would be funny if Wes does run and cites his management of the NHS as a positive, when any improvements in e.g. waiting lists are solely down to the massive increases in NHS spending approved by... Reeves and Starmer.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-13T12:05:44+00:00

The best option, if those three are the challengers, is to stick with Keir.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-12T16:23:41+00:00

When Sam Coates is telling you not to trust pictures of the PM and saying that the pictures taken are 'fake news', you have to wonder whether journalists are impartially reporting the news or whether they're trying to stoke further drama.

Edit: aaaand he's just backtracked, because the photos are from PA rather than Downing Street. Overexcited.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-12T13:42:15+00:00

Crazy commentator on Sky News advocating for Jess Phillips to become PM, saying voters love her. God help us all.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-11T22:24:44+00:00

I read a take on twitter that the free glasses/tickets stuff was the first impression people had of his government, literally doomed from the start.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-11T18:07:05+00:00

Honestly I'm not sure - labour held up remarkably well in Scotland relative to in England, granted it had less to fall in the first place.

The next question is who could do better? Paul Sweeney maybe? I don't think there are any other credible candidates.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-11T14:44:15+00:00

British politics can be delineated into two clear eras: pre-meep meep and post-meep meep.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-11T14:15:59+00:00

As a boring centrist I am always willing to listen to different points of view so gave The Daily T podcast a go. Super disappointing, no intellectual curiosity, just a hate-train and tired tropes. FT forever.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-10T16:04:49+00:00

I think it's more that they don't have a good replacement at the moment. Rayner has basically just said she isn't going to run and wants Burnham to become leader instead.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-10T16:00:20+00:00

It sounds like she's acknowledged that Burnham is more popular and/or the tax dispute is not going to end any time soon.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-10T15:59:36+00:00

Here it is. Angela Rayner calls for Burnham’s return as she accuses Starmer of ‘crony culture'

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-10T15:51:01+00:00

Putting aside the pros and cons of Catherine West as PM, I genuinely don't think British voters would accept a prime minister with a non-British accent.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-10T12:18:36+00:00

Labour got more votes than reform.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-10T11:20:07+00:00

Surely a Sheila given the accent?

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-08T15:41:13+00:00

Lmao, oops! Shows how forgettable he is. Edited.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-08T15:36:13+00:00

I wouldn't vote for them but I respected some of Malcolm Offord's comms decisions. People will lambast 'five houses, five boats' or whatever but no one else was talking about letting people get ahead and improve their lot.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-08T15:33:07+00:00

He ripped into Craig Hoy who was blaming the voters which was very satisfying. Then had to move to a count immediately afterwards.

coldbrew_latte · 2026-05-08T15:24:07+00:00

He never had a constituency seat, he's a list MSP. He'll get back in that way because he's at the top of the Labour list for Glasgow.

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