The Numbers Game
Quote of the Day
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion."
Noam Chomsky
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.
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!!!!!
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:
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.
All numbers extracted from Private Eye
