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January 2026

£825,000

Fine Betfred was handed in December 2025 for 'social responsibility and anti-money laundering failures.

£25.4m

Dividends Betfred paid to shareholders between October 2023 and March 2025

Comment:

Amazing, the only sure thing is to be a shareholder in a betting company

January 2026

2

Weeks that many South East Water customers were left without drinking water from late November 2025, with around 24,000 homes affcted.

8

Marks out of 10 that South East Water boss David Hinton gave himself and colleagues for their response to the crisis, when asked by MPs.

Comment:

Perhaps Hinto should have gone for 'Service Excellence' by insuring events could never happen.

January 2026

12

U-turns made by Boris Johnson's government between election in December 2019 and September 2020, when Keir Starmer declared that 'the only conclusion is serial incompetence'

14

U-turns made by Keir Starmer's government since July 2024, up to the Hillsborough Law climbdown on Jan 18th 2026

Comment:

This reminds us of the Byrds hit 'Turn Turn Turn.

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