Last time Mrs U was in the US, she got presented with a tipping option at the self check out at an airport shop that had no staff..... (View Post)

I think you might be an outlier. Have you seen the proportion of people these days that basically just wear headphones / earbuds whenever they are out and about, totally blocking our the world. Those… (View Post)

EXC Jonathan Powell suppressed a major Whitehall investigation into Chinese spying after lobbying from the Treasury. Powell decided in June that the Government would not publish details about Beijing… (View Post)

It does look like Reform keep nudging up on high end. 4-5 months ago it was at 30%, now a number of polls in 33-35% range. Farage saying iffy stuff doesn't seem to hurt him. (View Post)

That was "Long Term" i.e. in total after 6+ years. The prediction was just 3000 in year 1. There is a table of the predictions here, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-on-privat… (View Post)