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[malvolio]

PRG are a different matter of course. They are a big group of companies, been around Bristol for many years - anyone remember Sandersons?

[malvolio]

Start digging around their companies house returns. Doesn't look too promising; for one thing the company is listed as active but returns accounts as dormant. They are wholly owned and controlled by another company, Precision Resource Group Ltd, and appear to have total assets of £150 and no staff....

[malvolio]

Just list the successes, all 24 of them out of 92. Then look at how many are actually taking us forward economically. Also quite a few are actually about establishing or removing stuff, not delivery of outcomes.

But to be fair, I suspect most governments have a similar record at half t...

[malvolio]

Well yes, I do agree to some extent. We are going to be presented with a list of political pygmies when we really need some statesmen with a proper vision of the way forward. It is telling that with over 400 MPs, Labour have to import a serial failure to take over as PM. And the popular vote is either...

[malvolio]

It also depends which you think represent progress towards building the economy and which are union inspired regressions to the 70s....

Tax receipts of £331bn vs welfare costs of £333bn are factual. So is spending £100bn a year in loan intetest, funded by - guess what - more borrowing....

[malvolio]

Fair enough. Not that many actually delivered, and some of those are open to interpretation. For one example, net immigration is down but that is as much about increaed emigration as anything. Similary NHS queues are down because 600k appointments have cancelled and people, such as my other half,...

[malvolio]

To be fair, Badenoch has laid out a fairly sensible vision of her likely manifesto, but I do wish some of her shadows were more obvious. It does amuse me that people see "the Tories" as a brand; it's becoming clear that what they are now under her leadership is nothing like what we suffered...

[malvolio]

Who knows... The whole idea is a risk assessment, without knowing what criteria are important or relevant.

There are spaces on the form for "any other relevant information". You decide if that was significant....

[malvolio]

Read the long thread about security clearance. The answer is in the first half dozen pages. But don't listen to "advice", the test is can you be corrupted - i.e. are you honest. Not answering honestly is not a good move.

As an aside, do you believe the vetting people don't already...

[malvolio]

Imho the skills are the least important aspect. CVs are more impressive if they demonstrate some relevant solid experience of delivery. Timely delivery within budget or quality criteria are hugely important.

[malvolio]

No idea about the modern IPse, but originally it was pretty unconditional, actually. You had to have contractual proof of the potential loss of YourCo revenue, which isn't all that hard and quite understandable. But it was £10k, both because IPSe wasn't a bank with infinite funds and partly because...

[malvolio]

A couple of thoughts:

Please don't make the stake of thinking you are in a B2B relationship with the agency. You are a commodity as far as they are concerned, not a supplier.

Their business model is built around minimising risks and costs. Their internal payment cycle is part...

[malvolio]

So am I....

Snag is, the body is somewhat older ...

[malvolio]

Says someone who enjoys their work and has a wide customer base....

I just got tired of repeating myself to a management layer who did t really understand their own business. OK, i was in strategic consultancy but i really cba to adapt yo yet another fad - cloud and SIAM, never mind AI......