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have they not thought about getting better paying jobs or working harder? /s

It's about getting MORE jobs. Now that all those pesky immigrants have been fucked off with Brexit and the hostile border policy shit, the poor get to step up and fill all those extra roles.

Pick fruit from 4am-7am then get on over to your service station job all day then scoot on over to your night cleaning work. Pretty soon you'll have that super yacht you deserve! and remember, Vote Tory!

I think they were limiting numbers onto the actual trains earlier in the morning. Something to do with allowing space to be there for platforms later down the line rather than every train being full with the keenos from the first station riding the full line (I would have liked to have been one of those keenos)

It is true though. Prepay meters, high interest credit, high rent in crap areas, shop in convenience stores or take a taxi to the supermarket etc etc.

It is expensive to be poor.

When the UK is just a radioactive wasteland and the few remaining survivors are sat around a campfire eating the last person in their group to stumble, you'll be able to regale them with that tale of riding Crossrail (I'm never calling it the fucking QE line) from one end to the other...

No10 now ringing with the sound of 100 TippEx bottles being opened...

(edit, edit, redact, rinse, repeat if needed...)

It is expensive to be poor.

Indeed:

Buy cheap, buy twice.

Obviously a lot of people can't afford to not buy cheap though.

And therein lies the trap.

First, Ms Gray is notorious (like Sir Jeremy) for her determination not to leave a document trail.

Lovely, "woops it's not written down". But that's not just her, looks her boss also backed this. It is happening a lot with meetings in Stormont/Belfast City Council too and is completely wrong if you ask me.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/22/she-has-been-horribly-isolated-friends-say-sue-gray-was-deliberately-ostracised-while-investigating-partygate

So I guess covering up for everyone she has friend, but trying to not cover up. Not so much.

Report here.

No juicy photos.

Edit: beaten to it

As usual with these things, the civil service tone of language won't reflect the seriousness to the general public.

This is why you should always buy the best boot straps you can afford to pull yourself up by

Yeh, not sure it contains the knock out blow. Think many will of been expecting worse.

You joke but I have a mate who's a manager at a supermarket and pretty much all the staff on the 4-8am shift go on to another job.

Great phase. Will use.

I think he'll get away with it

Yup. The meeting the other week did its job.

Make the conclusions as wishy-washy as you can for the client journos to quote direct. Lean heavily on the not publishing photos of the junior staff angle to remove the juicy pics.
Remove names and job titles here, here and here. Otherwise you know you can't stay in the civil service because nobody will have you.

Seems it was decided to only include official photos. I suspect we may see other photos being leaked.

There were reports that it was actually still being written at 8am

Can't get my head around how the party in the No10 flat went uninvestigated.

Observers said there was loud music being played.

Simmonds says it was a strategy meeting with No10 advisors.

Johnson said he was only there to interview an advisor.

Neither Met nor SG gave a toss.

BBC ticker-tape coverage states that they were in the Cabinet Office writing it at 08:43. Given it was supposed to be ready when the 'interim' report was issued ages ago, you wonder what was being added or removed at this stage. And I doubt the Cabinet Office is off-limits to the PM and other senior figures under scrutiny. It certainly has a strong aroma...

It’s the ultimate piss-take. Staggering really.

His speech clearly shows he still doesn't get it, move along and be happy I am sorting out all my staff who were the problem

That and the announcement that number 10 received the report followed by reports 40 mins later that they hadn't.

It's just so blatant. They know they just need the thinnest veil of accountability to get away with anything. That accountability seems to amount only to use of HoC stationary however.