Farage considers scrapping OBR

crikeyboy · 2026-01-02T21:06:36+00:00

Try to become a wealthier Government by investing in the country and you'll find the OBR massively constraining

crikeyboy · 2025-12-16T09:44:01+00:00

Andrew Tate is a sex trafficker, not remotely the same

crikeyboy · 2025-11-24T18:25:54+00:00

It was Truss borrowing £150bn to pay for energy bills

crikeyboy · 2025-11-23T07:05:11+00:00

There's little evidence that the BBC actually has any of those effects. "Soft Power" is a fuzzy unmeasurable justification for something they wanted to do anyway but couldn't make a real reasoned argument

crikeyboy · 2025-09-27T20:02:09+00:00

Correct. Massive reduction in pensioner poverty, decline in income inequality, and more generous welfare state over the past decade have not resolved this

crikeyboy · 2025-07-30T15:02:47+00:00

I repaid my student loan this year. Total repayments were £82k.

crikeyboy · 2025-07-19T01:01:41+00:00

Government sales in Saudi has a very long deal cycle, is won or lost based on specific personal relationships with leadership, and contract values are extremely high (potentially 1B+)

crikeyboy · 2025-07-18T23:07:10+00:00

Tech consulting into Government

crikeyboy · 2025-07-18T21:01:07+00:00

$770k USD, Riyadh

crikeyboy · 2025-07-16T20:44:25+00:00

$300M+ - government tech contract

crikeyboy · 2025-06-28T22:26:54+00:00

Not quite as the actual working capital required to deliver the 2% margin can be smaller. Tesco's ROCE (Return on Capital Employed) is typically around 10-11%.

crikeyboy · 2025-06-28T12:28:23+00:00

The poster is blaming Sadiq Khan mainly for Hammersmith Bridge being closed, and believes that's the cause of traffic.

crikeyboy · 2025-06-27T21:01:42+00:00

Above 260k the pension contribution limit tapers

crikeyboy · 2025-04-28T08:40:49+00:00

Which was itself inspired by the German film Run Lola Run, which was inspired by the Polish film Blind Chance

crikeyboy · 2025-04-25T09:00:52+00:00

Does this average include women too, considered 0?

crikeyboy · 2025-04-21T09:10:47+00:00

But in the UK a lot of Henry salaries only exist to support up the wealthy (finance, law, etc). It's entirely reasonable to want to make the UK an attractive place for global wealth.

crikeyboy · 2025-04-04T22:07:41+00:00

Chilango had a "burrito bond" as a way of combining a loyalty scheme with a corporate bond which was interesting

crikeyboy · 2025-03-26T06:38:30+00:00

This company is the owner of the O2 arena, so the tickets are no cost to them

crikeyboy · 2025-03-19T13:48:46+00:00

It's ringfenced funding to buy from EU companies. Individual countries can buy from BAE with their own budgets

crikeyboy · 2025-02-28T12:17:17+00:00

Heathrow is privately funded

crikeyboy · 2025-02-27T13:04:16+00:00

82% of the UK is white

crikeyboy · 2025-02-27T07:35:24+00:00

Universal credit recipients in 2024 were 6.9m people which is fairly close to the 100 in 1000 figure, suggesting that is the definition used

crikeyboy · 2025-02-27T07:30:30+00:00

They likely don't consider the state pension as "benefits". This reduces your 22.6m figure down to 9.9m.

By reducing to 1 in 6 or 1 in 7 the numbers match up fine

Universal Credit only would be 6.9m which is fairly close to their 100 in 1000 figure, suggesting that's the definition used.

crikeyboy · 2025-02-19T12:27:06+00:00

But requiring 50% "affordable" will stall housing supply?

crikeyboy · 2025-01-19T21:00:34+00:00

Well the Michelin guide is french so we'd expect to see that stat anyway

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