March 2025
25.3%
First-class post that Royal Mail failed to deliver on time in the year to March 2024, resulting in it being fined in Dcember 2024.
36%
Increase in the cost of a first-class stamp from April 2024 to April 2025.
Comment:
Perhaps this is to make the sale of Royal Mail to the new prospective owner more attractive.
March 2025
2
UK state visits Donald Trump has been offered.
0
UK state visits by US presidents Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy.
Comment:
There was us thinking that Donald Trump was a pariah to the UK government.
March 2025
£2,500
Advance from HarperCollins for a book by Sir Ed Davey. A party leader known for clowning around.
£1,512.88
Advance from Biteback Publishing for a book called Ten Years To Save The West by Liz Truss. An ex-party leader known for being a clown.
Comment:
February 2025
£40m
Fine handed to Barclays by the Financial Conduct Authority in November 2024 over 'reckless' fundraising in the 2008 financial crisis.
£1.9bn
Bonus pool shared by Barclays' bankers in 2024.
Comment:
What's the point of the FCA? You tell us we have no idea!!!!!
February 2025
0.43%
Potential increase in GDP from new third runway at Heathrow.
12%
Estimated fall in world GDP for every 1°C rise in global temperatures.
Comment:
No brainer for Reeeves and Starmer 'Up Up and Away'.
February 2025
74%
Increase in bonus payments to Thames Water executives from 2022-23 to 2023-24.
31%
Increase in water bills for Thames Water customers from 2024-25 to 2025-26.
Comment:
As we all know these executives are doing a great job polluting rivers and allowing the sewage system to fall into disrepair. So it's only fair they should be paid for class one work.
February 2025
£317,246
Total value of 'staff costs' donated to Labour by PriceWaterhouseCoopers from January 2021 until the July 2024 General Election.
£32,372,071
Total value of contracts awarded to PriceWaterhousCoopers by government departments since the General Election.
Comment:
A sprat to catch a mackerel or a retirement place on the board of directors.
February 2025
100,000
UK army personnel when Putin became Russian president in 2000.
95,000
UK army when Putin annexed Crimea in 2014.
75,000
UK army in 2025 as Keir Starmer says he may put 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine.
Comment:
Starmer needs to hurry up or there won't be an army left. Of course him and his new best buddies in the EU could call a conference and talk some more .... yeh let's do that.
February 2025
£3bn
Payouts to shareholders since Fujitsu's central role in the Post Office scandal was proven in 2020.
£0
Payout to victims by Fujitsu to date.
Comment:
Fujitsu lied during the prosecution of the victims so why should anyone believe them when they said they would make payouts to the said victims.
November 2023
5
Second jobs Tory MP Brandon Lewis has taken so far this year, his most recent being as adviser to investment firm LetterOne, partly owned by two sanctioned Russian oligarchs.
5
Parliamentary debates in which Lewis has spoken so far this year.
Comment:
Bandon Lewis's constituents in Great Yarmouth haven't seen too much of him either. He is no doubt very busy securing his post election future.
May 2022
$24bn
Write of BP's share in oil company Rosneft, cited as a reason not to impose a windfall tax
$48bn
BP's income from Russia over Putin's rule (worth considerably more at today's prices)
Comment:
Since this is a shareholder vs consumer interest naturally Boris Johnson's government side with shareholders.
May 2022
9 Days
Mail has run front-page stories about Keir Starmer's 'Beergate' possible lockdown breach
1 Day
Mail has run front page stories about war in Ukraine since responding to Boris Johnson's 'Partygate' fine with dismissive headline 'Don't they know there's a war on?'
Comment:
Always let it be said that the Mail is never even handed!
April 2022
11%
Increase in level of taxation for the whole population after Rishi Sunak's tax rises (from 33 percent of GDP to 36.5 percent)
0%
Increase in tax on overseas income of non-doms under Sunak's chancellorship
Comment:
It's true then ..... a happy wife means a happy life
April 2022
£13bn
Payment to fraudsters under Covid support schemes, according to latest Office for Budget Responsibility figures
£4bn
Net payments to support households with energy bills after recovery of discounts
Comment:
Johnson and Sunak have yet again confirmed their credentials. It is more important to help businesses run by thiefs rather than support honest citizens
April 2022
£328,000
Combined Salary of three Rail, Maritime and Transport union bosses who the Daily Mail described as 'fat cat union barons raking in .... whopping amounts'
£10,910,000
Lord Rothermeres renumeration as chair of the Daily Mail's publishers in 2021
Comment:
Well is Rothermere worth 33 times per annum than the 3 union bosses berated in the Daily Mail? Bearing in mind he is not the only fat cat at the Daily Mail the hapless customers paying £369.20 per annum for this paper, might think they are not getting value for money
March 2022
8%
Amount of UK oil imports which previously came from Russia and are to be banned in protest at its waging war on its neighbour Ukraine
81
Number of people Saudia Arabia executed in a single day last week despite - and the war it has been waging on its neighbour Yemen for seven years - the UK will now be importing more of its war
Comment:
Saudi Arabia are 'the good guys' ask the Americans so the UK under the leadership of Boris Johnson are correct to go along with this objective assessment and of course to ensure that Boris Johnson gets his retirement bonus. God Bless America
All numbers extracted from Private Eye
