Is that over 99 years (context please) and is it also to strategically stop them aligning with the Chinese (context please, I pay my licence fee for news and facts not your added nuance without context).
What hope does the average Brit have who has a poor understanding of maths when someone like yourself who has a business degree makes this much of a mathematical blunder? The smart play was to hold your hands up and admit your error, not dig in.
Dan Neidle is a perfect example of how to do journalism well and to an extent how screwed we are as a country.He relatively recently undertook surveying of the public that described Brits as thinking we spend more on MPs expenses annually than the state pension!Journalists like Chris help cause that
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You’re a reporter, aren’t you meant to report actual facts?
You can argue all you like about the relative size and merits of these sources but this stupid question of "where does it come from" needs to stop.
Is this where you are getting this bullshit, or is it your own incompetence?
To admit to being wrong is tantamount to heresy, despite the fact that their profession is one of the most untrusted in the country.
It’s the same hypocrisy that leads right wing journalists to decry unions while paying their NUJ subs.
Pensions are something like over half the social security budget.
MPs would have to be spending hundreds of millions a year each to even come close.