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Are they allowed to put that in the job spec?

Heh.

Partygate;

The Met police probe, which lasted four months and cost £460,000, led to 126 fines being issued for events in and around Downing Street.

I hope the fines are £3,65o.79 as a minimum.

Also managed to invent Schrödinger's party with some people being at a party and fined while others were at a work event and not fined while attending the same event

I'm really wary about forming opinions of things were we don't have access to the full facts (especially when it comes to matters of law), but its impossible not to suspect that this stinks a fair bit.

Is there any breakdown of what the £460,000 was spent on? Is that just the fully loaded cost of 12 detectives for 2 months?

Feels quite odd to release that information, they don't release their bill for all their investigations do they?

Sue Gray report to be coming I believe.

Is there any breakdown of what the £460,000 was spent on? Is that just the fully loaded cost of 12 detectives for 2 months?

Riding the gravy traaaaaiaaaaaaaiiiaaaaaann....

Under cooked offal found in Stonehenge builders' faeces.

No, just as quoted from BBC this morning.

Under cooked offal found in Stonehenge builders' faeces.

Well thats a forum post that made me double take.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dwp-staff-power-arrest-brits-27002864?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Now work can't start on this until next year and it requires an act of parliament...but yeah it's telling this is =only= for benefit claimants.

The Netherlands has strict bank account checks for everyone...either do that (and involve businesses while you are at it...looking at you Dutch Double Sandwich tax evasion trick...) or just leave claimants alone.

Patel and her, wtf... were they schoolyard bullies by any chance? In the case of Patel, she was bullied and turned bully.

The only full facts we don't have is if we smell rotting fish or rotting meat ;)

As a result of Rees Mogg making everyone stop WFH there weren't enough desks at the dept of education and people were working in corridors. Twat.

https://twitter.com/JohndickensSW/status/1527521404190605314

Stupid question; were the WFH staff originally WFH before the pandemic before Moggy decided to bring back the Victorian textile mill set up?

My nephew works for the DfE in Manchester. Half of his team work in other cities so he's going in to... meet on zoom or talk on the phone. My brother is a pretty mild mannered person but last time Rees Mogg was mentioned he just said "Someone should shoot him".

boris wants 90,000 job cuts in the civil service, just have a massive game of musical chairs.

just need a place to set up 275,000 chairs ... and the chairs obvs

The civil service have been cutting desk space and encouraging some people to work from home for th thick end of a decade.

I appreciate that Covid amplified that massively but until Covid and Mogg was involved it was a long term strategy.

I've had a massage on a plane. The child's feet pushing the back of my seat intermittently for 4 hours wasn't the most relaxing one I've had.

But levelling up...

https://www.velonews.com/news/road/austin-police-issue-arrest-warrant-in-moriah-wilson-murder-case/

I'm sure there's a lot of levelled up holiday homes for Tory donors

Well that's a twist in the tale...

Seems healthy