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9th November 2025

Local Government Pension Fund employer contributions to fall by £10 billion a year- for the next three years

Sudden massive fiscal headroom available,

if the Chancellor acts fast!

£10B reduction for the next three years as 10 year annualised returns settle at 7.1%..

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24th October 2025

£476 Billion:
*UPDATE*
UK's 97 Local Government Pension Funds - combined assets 2025

That's $0.63 Trillion. making it the 5th biggest pension fund, and 8th biggest sovereign asset fund, in the world.

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22nd October 2025

Counting the Cost.
The impact of the JLR Cyberattack.

"The cost dwarfs any previous known data breach."

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14th October 2025

£475 Billion:
UK's 97 Local Government Pension Funds - combined assets 2025

That's $0.63 Trillion. making it the 5th biggest asset fund in the world.

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2nd October 2025

JLR:
A loan guarantee that risks stopping at the factory gate?

The guarantee only secures lending to JLR, NOT to its subcontractors.

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29th September 2025

UK Government's
Loan Guarantee to JLR: the ‘Moral Hazard’ argument is overblown

Is there really a risk of Moral Hazard after the government announced £1.5b loan guarantee to JLR

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23rd September 2025

Back to school scandal (Part Two):

How it came about that school headteachers, FE College principals, university vice-chancellors and other bosses came to believe their very real Pension fund surpluses simply weren't there.

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18th September 2025

PostcodeChecker

Every West Midlands' neighbourhood

How much have their schools, FE Colleges, Unis, Councils,police and fire services lost in services
to feed the Regional Pension Fund's £4.3Billion Surplus?
Average neighbourhood owed £12million

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10th September 2025

Back to school scandal:

Classroom chaos as

£1Billion lost from School spending,
£200million lost from FE College spending, and
£250million lost from Universities spending

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AUTO Blogs from the Blackstuff

8th September 2025

JLR screeches to a halt

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Official: a £684 million Pension Fund surplus in Birmingham City Council Accounts 2025

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Birmingham City Council IS owed at least £1.3Billion by its pension fund.

Chief Commissioner has lost all authority

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Labour’s £200 billion blunder

One of the worst mistakes of any incoming Labour government.
A Scandal.

Feb 27th 2025

The Birmingham Children's Cost (Part Two)

Time for The Birmingham Children's Trust to assert operational independence

Feb 24th 2025

The Birmingham Children's Cost (Part One)

Caller's and Cotton's cruellest cuts – be a voice for the children instead, Labour

Jan 24th 2025

Letter to the Deputy Prime Minister

Our letter to the Angela Rayner calling for specific intervention in Birmingham to halt 100s of £millions of unnecessary further overpayments to its pension fund, and stop £200 million worth of cuts

Jan 8th 2025

Happy New Year from Birmingham City Council - to all our pension fund investment managers!

Birmingham City Council agrees to increase the expenses of its Pension Fund investment managers to £35.5 million a year, or £3 million a month, whilst agreeing massive cuts to services.

Dec 29 2024

Chief Commissioner Caller in the gutter

Unable and unwilling to understand the basics of council pension funds, its Gove-imposed Chief commissioner resorts to insults, and enforces cuts whilst ignoring hundreds of £millions due back from the pension fund.

Dec 17th 2024

Here's one they made earlier: how pension funds return surpluses to their councils

Stop dithering, Birmingham. Come clean, Max Caller.

Dec 10th 2024

How long will it take Max Caller, the Chief Commissioner of Birmingham City Council, to confirm that the pension fund surplus reported last March in the City Council accounts was £417million?

The calculations have been done and the facts are before him, but Gove's chief commissioner refuses to publish the figure. We know what it is, he knows what it is - why won't he tell the people of Birmingham what it is?

Dec 3rd 2024

The £1.2 Billion iceberg that sank Birmingham City Council – who knew?

If you think you knew why Birmingham City Council went bust, think again.

Feb 19th 2025

The Nissan Honda Merger -

could it be revved up again?

Mar 27th 2025

Trump Tariffs Tornado for the UK Car Industry -

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