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Post by registerme on May 8, 2024 23:04:48 GMT
Happy Victory Day Russia.
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Post by registerme on May 8, 2024 16:50:47 GMT
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Post by registerme on May 7, 2024 20:35:06 GMT
So this is a dumb / naive question. Maybe Mousey would like to opine? We have "council for the inquiry", or whatever they are actually called. Mr Bear etc. And very effective they are too. We also have barristers / lawyers (?) for other interested parties, eg the sub-Post Masters, or Mr Jenkins etc. When preparing for a witness, do those barristers / lawyers work together? Are they allowed to? Or would that be considered inappropriate (?) collusion (?). I realise that this is an inquiry and not a case heard before a court but I am unsure about the mechanices wrt to this, or their import.
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Post by registerme on May 7, 2024 11:26:00 GMT
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Post by registerme on May 3, 2024 23:04:12 GMT
As much as I (currently) think that Singh deserves all the opprobrium he's receiving I can't help but think that he is as much a symptom as a cause.
How could anybody as obviously useless as he is have achieved the position he reached? How could any of the people who so manifestly can't take responsibility for anything have achieved positions of responsibility?
And, before I become (too) "holier than thou", I've worked for organisations where, had they been subject to the level of scrutiny that the PO is currently receiving, they would have been very, very uncomfortable. The staff too, and that could have included me.
Watching the Horizon inquiry unfold makes me reflect on all the conversations and email chains and... just busy corporate life I experienced. I was never involved in anything close to what is currently unfolding before us. But I did experience a few things that made me distinctly uncomfortable. Did I resolve them appropriately? I think so. Were they to be subject to this level of scrutiny would I still think so?
I'm not so sure.
I sometimes wonder that large organisations are simply impossible to manage to the standards that we (the public), shareholders, customers, staff, and the management expect of them.
What to do?
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Post by registerme on May 3, 2024 12:57:50 GMT
At best he's completely useless and utterly out of his depth.
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Post by registerme on May 3, 2024 10:08:08 GMT
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Post by registerme on May 2, 2024 22:37:41 GMT
Jarnail Singh is up tomorrow, which could make for an interesting day in court. is he the lawyer that was up before ? I think they've all been up before in one way or another, but tomorrow will be the first time I'll have seen him give evidence. And he was "head" of the part of the legal department in the PO that dealt with criminal prosecutions.
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Post by registerme on May 2, 2024 19:52:09 GMT
Jarnail Singh is up tomorrow, which could make for an interesting day in court.
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Post by registerme on May 2, 2024 19:00:09 GMT
So BJ forgot his ID and was prevented from voting .
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Post by registerme on May 2, 2024 17:01:51 GMT
Trading 212 5.2% on invested funds ... held in QMMF I keep seeing ads for that pop up on youtube. The 5.2% is attractive. Having to use yet another platform less so. I'll see if I can find QMMF on one of the other platforms I use.
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Post by registerme on May 2, 2024 16:59:03 GMT
Oi k6 He is simply a mirror site of the talking points of Youtube influencer Colonel Doubledown McWhackjob. A man who deleted all his Youtube posts from 2022 because they were so wildly wrong. But you can revel in the whole of his 2023 output. You are basically a blasphemer - which should be obvious to anyone with any common sense from your Avatar.... Let's assume you're right (you can probably lump me in with captainconfident ), what on earth does it have to do with McGregor's (lack of) credibility?
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Post by registerme on May 2, 2024 8:17:49 GMT
A big fat zero.
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Post by registerme on May 1, 2024 9:55:33 GMT
I don't think anybody who knows anything about WWII would deny the Soviet contribution, which was immense, and came at great cost. But saying "the Soviet Union won the war" is as facile as saying "the US and UK won the war".
I agree with you that strategic bombing was next to useless, and came at great cost, but have you got a source for your "40% of Britain's war effort" claim?
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Post by registerme on Apr 30, 2024 16:03:20 GMT
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