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Paula Vannells handing back her CBE. So let's consider the matter closed and move on, right?

I don't think we're allowed to like Marina Hyde's work because of what school she went to, but this is good:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/09/heroes-post-office-scandal-villains

Criminal charges next, Shirley?

Dereliction of duty in public office amirite?

Yep but only if she’s not the only one/scapegoat.

She was the Chief Executive. Accountability is what you’re paid for.

Absolutely, no way does she get a pass but it should be more than just her from the Post Office.

Plus there should be people from Fujitsu on the hook.

Vannells, van den Bogerd, and whoever the Fujitsu Chief Exec was. Assuming the drama was/is accurate, they’re the ultimately accountable ones who had complete oversight.

The whole thing was an absolute disgrace.

Fujitsu UK CEO is the husband of Education Secretary Gillian Keegan

It's a small world

Delicious

Fabulous!!!!

I’d say the person in government who proposed/signed off the CBE has some questions to answer too but they will slime out and blame Starmer for not acting when DPP despite the prosecutions being bought privately by the Post Office (which we, naturally, paid for).

‘Internal armed conflict’ breaking out in Ecuador. A TV station was taken over by armed gunmen, police patrols have been attacked with IEDs/landmines, and the govt has designated 3 crime syndicates as terrorist groups (meaning they can use the armed forces against them).

Not looking good. More widely, there’s already large numbers of migrants/refugees arriving at the US border with Mexico, a fact which is being readily politicised and weaponised by the US’ Republican Party and trump to weaken Biden’s bid for re-election and hold hostage the federal budget (which includes military aid to Ukraine).

So we're off to impose some rules based order it would appear

https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1745526868441219554?t=6lZSahqy0xLdQtbQwi4EGQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1745508912034451737?t=H6iUjcKXiVCUFj5hLlnRhQ&s=19

Oh apparently we aren't bothering to tell parliament as it's happening tonight
https://twitter.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1745550209881424276?t=-9bPvTg7qTBSDrUfO1Tc0A&s=19

Whenever I see clips of the day today I reminisce about how great it was, but then I’m also thrown into this nostalgia for a time when I could laugh at how far-fetched the satire was.

Same goes for The Thick of It

That was a documentary.

One that's on iPlayer at the moment

Fuck off!

@mmccarthy

When satire becomes the instruction manual...I watched gbnews for a bit and thought it was the daytoday.

Cummings is a pastiche of Malcolm tucker.

So is it time to complain about Scottish Italian writers?

https://youtu.be/YrWAvKZAGD0?si=5vP2EBX2K9Vujqn9

I thought it was a template

You can kill all the Palestinians you want but if you dare threaten my inflation reduction act…