Potential New Universal UK Park

[The_bup]

Merlin apparently only employeers 30,000 people worldwide, so even considering the indirect employment of independant hotels etc that number seems huge.

I know but.. also Merlin staffing. There’s isn’t a lot of it

 

[GooseOnTheLoose]

Treasury minister Darren Jones declined to give a date and said negotiations were ongoing, adding: "I hope to come back shortly with updates."

Negotiations still ongoing is quite different to the "poised to be signed off" claim.

I do wonder how much state assistance Universal is asking for.

Merlin apparently only employeers 30,000 people worldwide, so even considering the indirect employment of independant hotels etc that number seems huge.

It's worth nothing, however, that they don't employ any food and beverage staff. Nor do they employ any staff to run their games at theme parks. The former is a considerable chunk of potential employees for a hospitality company.

 

[SuperMuscleMan]

Negotiations still ongoing is quite different to the "poised to be signed off" claim.

I do wonder how much state assistance Universal is asking for.

It's worth nothing, however, that they don't employ any food and beverage staff. Nor do they employ any staff to run their games at theme parks. The former is a considerable chunk of potential employees for a hospitality company.

And alot of staff are seasonal!

 

[Josh555]

Negotiations still ongoing is quite different to the "poised to be signed off" claim.

not necessarily.

An MP is going to give the official line and that will always be that negotiations are ongoing because they technically are; until they aren’t.

The journalist could have been making it up for clicks or it could be that it’s virtually agreed and there’s some final points to consider and they’re not ready to confirm it yet; hence stating that the negotiations were continuing.

 

[GooseOnTheLoose]

The journalist could have been making it up for clicks

It's far more likely that their source was simply misinformed, or got it wrong. We don't need to start accusing professionals of lying.

 

[Mick]

I think it must be close-ish or it wouldn’t be being leaked/briefed alongside lots of other things that have now been confirmed. And it has only been a few days since Rachel Reeves big statement and since then Darren Jones the treasury minister has given a politicians answer so I don’t think it’s a moment for alarm bells to be ringing.

There’s still many reasons why it may end up not happening in the end of course, but I don’t think anything has changed this week.