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Re: Tory members do not want Badenoch to lead the party at the next election – politicalbetting.com
I once wrote a 35,000 word report at work, days of ruthlessly proof checking, hundreds of hyperlinks checked and rechecked, formatting checked.That chocolate bar. Understand the process:First thing worth noting is that spelling mistakes can be surprisingly hard to notice, particularly if you're focusing on other aspects, like choice of font, etc.
1) Ideation - lets hand out Cadbury bars with a slogan on the wrapper
2) Design - a template is made and slogans written
3) Approval - someone signs off the file to print
4) Creation - printer receives the file, pisses himself, fulfils the contract. Box(es) of labels sent to CCHQ
5) Wrappers are removed from Cadbury bars and the new wrapper is applied and glued
6) Slogan chocs packed into boxes
7) Boxes unpacked and the contents put into goody bags for delegates and hacks
At multiple points people had eyeballs on the wrapper. Design, approval, wrapping, distribution
So either: it's deliberate mendacious wrecking. Or the party is grotesquely monumentally stupid.
Even at the last minute once they started bing handed out surely someone would notice not spelt gud and pull them back.
How the hell did this happen?
That said, I think it's an example of a modern British malaise whereby junior staff are not encouraged and empowered to correct mistakes - they've not been delegated the authority. The senior people are too busy trying to run everything to answer your question about the spelling. Maybe it's deliberate? A pun you can't spot?
You're so scared of getting in trouble for changing it that you daren't do so, and you just send it on as is.
The end result is that the senior person thinks that everyone junior to them is too stupid to spot a spelling mistake, and so doesn't trust them to do anything. Making the situation worse.
It's like with those cakes where someone ices on the literal text, "Owen with a smiley face in the O". People are just doing exactly what they're told, because they've learned they get in trouble if they try to use their judgement.
Only after I emailed the report to the board did I notice I had spelled my name wrong on the front page.
Re: Kemi Badenoch proves again she really doesn’t understand Northern Ireland – politicalbetting.com
Red card for Mel Stride in the morning media round he kept saying these cuts will pay down the debt. Absolute BS given currently borrowing £150bn a year. Reduce the deficit perhaps.
Re: Tory members do not want Badenoch to lead the party at the next election – politicalbetting.com
"Kemi Badenoch 'axes God Save the King from the end of the Conservative Conference to play pop music'."
I watched the NFL game from London yesterday. I thought having both anthems at the beginning was slightly incongruous until I remembered Americans now need to learn how to sing God Save the King again
I watched the NFL game from London yesterday. I thought having both anthems at the beginning was slightly incongruous until I remembered Americans now need to learn how to sing God Save the King again
Scott_xP
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Re: Tory members do not want Badenoch to lead the party at the next election – politicalbetting.com
"Last time I checked, Britian was spelled like that".Kemi loves Britain but she can't spell it.If you work on the assumption Kemi thinks she's always right and her instincts are perfect then preparation is for losers it all makes sense.
https://x.com/NatashaC/status/1975187152074870892
Labour worked against Jeremy Corbyn. It is not hard to imagine CCHQ working against Kemi. It is screw-up after screw-up, from axing GSTK to blaming Labour for Tory laws, to this. It surely can't all be incompetence.
Nigelb
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Re: Can Polanski direct the Greens to a brighter future? – politicalbetting.com
In a statement posted on Facebook, Maidstone Borough Council said: “We’re calling on the Home Secretary to pardon hundreds of women executed under the Witchcraft Act, including seven local women hanged at Penenden Heath in 1652.”I’m sure that will be a great comfort to those women.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/06/green-councillor-demands-pardon-witches-executed-misogyny/ (£££)
Sean_F
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Re: Tory members do not want Badenoch to lead the party at the next election – politicalbetting.com
I still backed Kemi.I am one of the 652!Did you give the nod to Honest Bob, and do you want a pact with the snake oil salesman?
As for a pact with Reform, I'd sooner become French than be part of an electoral pact with Reform.
Re: Can Polanski direct the Greens to a brighter future? – politicalbetting.com
Saw this earlier and it’s staggering how the US has changed and how George W could seem like a titan of statesmanship, humanity and sense based on where we are now.Perhaps nothing so became the man, as the manner in which he left office.
https://youtu.be/RecECbxebPI?si=4Ne7R9KjYdnJjbnL
Both on personal level - he and his family invited the Obama family for a personal tour of the Whitehouse. Which started an enduring friendship between various generations of the Bushes and Obamas.
And on a professional level - various people from the Obama administration commented on the actual effort made by the outgoing admin to really hand over things in a good state and to transfer knowledge.
Re: Can Polanski direct the Greens to a brighter future? – politicalbetting.com
The French one upping us again with a PM resigning after 27 days. Yet again Truss has let this country down.I blame the Queen for that - she delayed the start of Truss's speed run by a couple of weeks...
eek
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Re: Can Polanski direct the Greens to a brighter future? – politicalbetting.com
OT. The gathering in Manchester mourning the killing of the two people last week was presided over by Sharren Haskel Israel's deputy Foreign Minister. Indeed Manchester City centre was full of Israeli flags. On that same day in Gaza Israel killed 53 people by bombing high rise blocks. That was the day Mahmood told people not to demonstrate against the genocide out of respect for the Jewish community. This was the interview carried out by Sky of one of the Board of Deputies explaining how Israel has nothing to do with them. Bizarre doesn't begin to explain itI was discussing this with my wife over the weekend. I can understand why Mahmood said that the protests should be delayed. We have no desire for these conflicts to be played out in our streets. But if I was of Palestinian origin I would find this consternation about the death of 2 people, one shot dead by the police, in the context of an ongoing genocide morally outrageous and infuriating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FtN2K2FmlQ
DavidL
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Re: Can Polanski direct the Greens to a brighter future? – politicalbetting.com
Yeah people need to leave this poor woman alone. She makes the king happy and that's basically her job. They should have let him marry her in the first place, it would have saved everyone a lot of grief.FFS, she's 78! And nobody was ever going to stack up in the public's affections against Diana.Except she’s not very fancy.King's fancy piece sounds betterI wish they wouldn't keep referring to Camilla as "Queen".Queen Consort Camilla would be better
Yes, she legally is (now) but she's also really not.
She's actually quite good fun though.
