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The government has sacked the chair of the Post Office. As he has only been in the job for just over a year, this seems somewhat harsh. Yet again, the Tories are finding someone else to blame and hoping that the electorate falls for it.

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That’s only got part of the name of the act.

Killer Queen by Queen

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All three leaders of the main GB-wide parties are somewhat lacking in charisma. Johnson had to go because he couldn't find enough MPs who were willing to serve as ministers.

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There are a number of senior people in the legal profession who are understandably uneasy about the mass quashing of convictions. We have seen large-scale quashing of convictions ion the past when the law has been changed. For example, all convictions for homosexual acts by people serving in the armed forces have been quashed. This, however, is different. The proposal is that a law should be passed overriding the verdict of juries. One reason for that is that its would take many years for each case to go through the appeals process.

From what I can make out, part of the problem stemmed from a decision to repurpose a system that had initially been intended to do one thing to do something else. In my IT days, a senior person suggested dpiong something similar at the company where I was working at the time ("We've got a system that does something vaguely similar, can't we make a few tweaks to get it to do something else as well?"). I thought it was a ridiculous idea, and explained why. It didn't happen. Too often in this country, members of staff are afraid to challenge senior management even when they can put up a good case.

There are so many scandalous elements to this story. I first became fully aware of it in 2019 although I had some vague awareness of it before then. For too long, it was totally ignored by the mainstream press. It was covered largely by an IT trade magazine (Computer Weekly) and Private Eye with the BBC giving it a mention very occasionally. The fact that it has taken a television drama to get the government to treat this as a matter of some urgency just adds to the sc sandal. Without it, the affair would have dragged on for many more years. Naturally, the Tories are trying to make political capital out of it, hoping we'll forget that they have done very little since they won a majority in 2015. Yes, Ed Davey initially refused to meet lead campaigner Alan Bates, as had his Labour predecessors. However, Davey did meet him in October 2010, five months after becoming a minister. Bates himself acknowledges that ministers refused to meet him because Fujitsu and the PO lied to them. Keir Starmer was indeed DPP while a lot of the prosecutions were launched. However, the DPP cannot do anything about private prosecutions which most of these were. A grand total of three prosecutions were launched by the CPS. However, assuming they were for the same sums as all the others (around a low five-figure sum), they wouldn't have got anywhere near the DPP's desk. The decisions will have been made by people many grades below him. In the meantime, Fujitsu have continued to win government contracts. They now have a tie-up with Infosys. The founder of and major shareholder in that company has a son-in-law who is quite influential (a bloke called Sunak). The former head of the PO was awarded a CBE by the Tories and was also given a place as a non-executive board member at the Cabinet Office. Those positions are basically a Tory invention to allow them to give more of their supporters (and donors) jobs on the government payroll.

Can I switch to Sheffield Utd's opponents? :lol:

The person selected by the Tories to defend Peter Bone’s seat is his partner. Note that his partner isn’t the Mrs Bone he used to refer to so regularly. He dumped her.

Yet another unwanted by-election. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67895246

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His wording makes it clear that he has NOT ruled out a May election. He can still call a a May election and plausibly say that today's statement was not a lie. "Circumstances have changed since then, ..., best interests of the country,...". He'll still lose.

The Lib Dems' biggest contributions in recent months has been their use of FOI legislation.They have been putting out countless press releases about issues such as NHS waiting lists, dumping of shit into rivers etc.

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It's another victim of the massive cuts in funding imposed on the BBC by the government. Each song broadcast means having to pay a significant sum in royalties, so they pad the programme out with interviews etc. The same has happened to Later.

Suede will release a single with Public Service Broadcasting which will spend eight months at number one.

The results of Jack Mogg's consultation on restoring imperial measurements have been announced. Despite Mogg's attempt to make it difficult to vote for the status quo, a whopping 98% of respondents said they were happy with things the way they are. All these decades of the Mail and Express saying people were furious at having to use metric measurements seems to have been a load of bollocks. Still, the government has decided that wine can now be sold by the pint and are claiming it to be a massive benefit from leaving the EU. Why would wine producers waste money on making pint-sized bottles? The whole of the rest of the world (including even the USA) sells wine in 75cl bottles. How much would it cost to produce pint-sized wine bottles for the 23 people who would want to buy them?

Maybe Mrs Flood is Ruby’s grandmother.