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I used to be on “flexi time” in the CPS. You were allowed to carry over 2 hours every month. I used to lose time every month because my flexi clock would be well over the 2 hours. I never got to use the 2 hours either. When I worked in the private sector I earned a lot more money and there were more opportunities to take the piss. I am sure we all have different experiences but the usual nonsense of tarring everyone or everything with the same brush just because you know of one or two examples doesn’t prove an argument. I currently know many manual (private sector) workers who earn over £200 “a day” but their “day” often finishes at 2pm or 3pm after a 9 am start, plenty of tea breaks and a lunch hour. My wife works in the private sector from 9am to 5:30pm with half an hour for lunch and earns well below the national average wage. She has a few days off so didn’t get home until 7:30pm last night because she was getting her work sorted for the person covering - no overtime. It used to be the same when she worked in the public sector (only she was a higher grade and was on a higher salary). My point is that you cannot compare the private sector with the public sector unless you research the vast majority of jobs in both sectors. Throwing in the odd anecdotal reference when there are hundreds of thousands of different working practices across both sectors means nothing. The public sector has been squeezed massively in the austerity years. The infrastructure of this country is crumbling, not because civil servants are in cushy jobs, but because their are not enough of them to get the work done. This has absolutely nothing to do with working from home or flexi hours. In both public and private sectors, if you do not employ enough people to do the job properly, you are going to struggle.

The article in The Guardian regarding the verdict is well balanced. The separate article that you are referring to was written by an American columnist and is not a “Guardian opinion”. It is her opinion. I am no supporter of Amber Heard but I have been following the trial on another social media site and the abuse aimed at her has been horrendous, and mostly from women too.

Jeremy Hunt currently favourite at 6/1 and Liz Truss second favourite at 33/5. Good grief!

The Mail on Sunday making a big deal about the Crown having to be removed from pint glasses after an edict from the EU 18 years ago and now being brought back as part of a benefit of Brexit. Only there was no edict to remove the crown from pint glasses. But never mind, it makes for a brilliant jingoistic front page when you are trying to save Johnson’s job for him.

You think that is funny?

At least I have never been banned from an Internet forum or come on pretending to be someone I am not. Little wonder you side with Johnson. You share many of his traits. As for “very angry,” no, just deeply frustrated that there are still people in this country who think that it is perfectly ok that Johnson remains as PM and that we are being governed by a bunch of total incompetents. I am not sure about using “very old” as a pejorative term. If you are fortunate enough one day you will be “very old.” Probably best to hope that there is no WW3 and you are called up to feed a submarine crew though. At least I will just be sat in an underground bunker regaling all those bored enough to listen with tales about strange characters on an Internet forum.

You have really lost the plot Batman. Why do you continue to try and minimise what is going on with Johnson at the moment by dragging in shit from the past? You did this as Delldays. You did it as Batman. You are doing it again. Blair is long gone. Our current PM is Boris Johnson. He is a fucking nightmare. He is the here and now and a bigger issue than Blair. He is currently taking the piss out of our Democratic system. Perhaps you should ask yourself why this isn’t a bigger issue for you than anything Blair did years ago. This has fuck all to do with cake or curry. If you don’t understand that you really are not very bright.

Sorry Batman but as usual you haven’t got a clue what you are talking about. For someone who says he has met me (despite not being able to say where and when) and who has exchanged many posts over the years as Delldays and then Batman, you don’t take much in. I have said a number of times that I voted Tory back in the 70’s then LibDem until Clegg fucked it up and handed power to your bunch. I have voted Labour twice in my life, in the last two elections, because that is the best way of getting your lot out. In all 3 incarnations on here you display the same tendencies. Here’s a tip. Next time you get banned and think up a new persona for your 4th reincarnation, try to be different to Delldays/Batman/Alex. Like Johnson the rest of his enablers, you are totally selfish and self centred. It is all about you and what is best for you, the rest of us can go to the dogs for all you care. Sadly you are not alone which is why Johnson still has a job. I think you will find that people like me are in the majority. Most people, according to the current polls, want him gone. Most people in this country don’t vote for your ideals.

Of course you would Batman. Lying and a total lack of integrity is no problem for someone who lies and has no integrity. Still, Boris Johnson and his cronies carry on pretending to be something they aren’t, as do you. Sadly there are many like you who will still vote for this lot, but I think you are wrong about the rest of us. We will not forgot what has happened at Christmas nor by the next election. He is and many of his enablers will be toast. Johnson said that he takes full responsibility for what happened but that is yet another lie. If that were true he would do the right thing and resign. Instead he has sacked others for his own failings.

If the jury finds for Depp in this case, where does that leave the first judgement? As for judges having the brain of a small planet, when I worked for the CPS there was a High Court judge on the Kent circuit who had the brain of a small pea.

I am not defending Depp. I am simply saying that from the evidence presented so far that I don’t think that Heard has proved her case beyond reasonable doubt. I said originally that it looks like she gave as good as she got which you took issue with. Again, from the evidence presented it looks like she was a nightmare to live with. I have never said that that made any DV perpetrated by Depp ok (if it happened). The Spectator ran a good article recently and made the point that many will probably agree on, that it was a very toxic relationship and neither of them comes out of it well. It would appear that she has mental health issues and he struggled with alcohol and drugs - not a healthy The trial has become a source of entertainment for many and it probably isn’t ideal that it has been televised. Many people will have been through similar experiences within toxic relationships (male and female) and will know how deeply debilitating it is. Despite what you keep posting, I am not defending Depp, but if her claims that he sexually assaulted her with a bottle, amongst other. Claims, are not true, I am sure you would agree, to defame someone like that is not acceptable. I feel for the jury. How you get to the bottom of the truth in this shot show I don’t know. As said, they have clearly behaved very badly towards each other, but I am still not convinced that he has done many of the things claimed. This has nothing to do with my feelings towards either of them but is based on evidence presented. As someone who has worked in this field, I am sure you will appreciate that, if she has lied about the various claims of violence and abuse, it makes it harder for others like her who do experience that abuse to be believed and to make their cases successfully in court. You have accused me of supporting Depp no matter, what but it would seem that you are doing the same with Heard.

126 fines to nil and still you try and equate one incident that remains in the balance with industrial sized partying by the party you vote for. For someone who gets so worked up about drink driving you seem to have a strangely ambivalent attitude when the people you vote for show utter contempt for the law and happily neck alcohol at social gatherings while us plebs followed their instructions and waved goodbye to our social lives. No longer the party of law and order, your lot are now the party of lies, hypocrisy, bullshit and arrogance. Starmer had already said that he will resign if found guilty of breaking the rules. The fact that the bloke you support is still in post speaks volumes about the lack of decency, honesty and integrity of our Prime Minister and those who still support him.

Yesterday the Mail on Sunday told us in banner headlines on its front page that the Rwandan asylum scheme was working. Today we learn that 234 asylum seekers landed on the south coast yesterday in small boats. Not front page news in the Mail today strangely.

Not so long ago people were slagging off Che for missing easy chances and slagging Ralph off for not giving Adam Armstrong game time. He was slagged off for not changing things before now he is being slagged off for changing things. Perhaps at least wait for the match to start before you start sticking the knife in again? It seems to me that we have a large portion of fans who just want to moan all the time. Ok it’s been a very disappointing end to the season, but I’d rather be us than Burnley or Leeds today.

Would anyone buy a used car off of these people? The more he tried to ignore the question the more it sounded like it was called by Johnson. This is what happens when you are called upon to defend an habitual liar with no integrity. Two more years of this bullshit. Happy days.

How does this make Donald Trump any less of an a-hole Batman? If you don’t want people to think that you are Delldays/Batman perhaps stop posting Delldays/Batman type posts.

So that worked then 😂 Straight out of the Margaret Thatcher Guide to Successful Man Management, 1987.

Couldn’t agree more. Move it to the Midlands too. Also leave Jacob Rees-Mogg behind as the curator. Build a chamber that encourages proper debate rather than the tribalistic yarhooing we get at the moment. The whole thing needs an overhaul from top to bottom from the voting system, the way MPs are policed, the bars, the salary/expenses, accountability…everything basically. If, post Brexit, we want to build a modern, forward looking Britain, we also need to start with kicking out Johnson and his embarrassingly incompetent cabinet.

Pay a fiver a year to be stalked by the resident WUMs who will have even more posts to jump all over? I think not. Anyway, back to Johnson. I don’t see how he is supposedly off the hook just because he managed to swerve more fines. He has already been found guilty of breaking his own law. He lied to Parliament about the parties and he lied to Parliament about attending the parties. He still needs to resign. It sounds like the Grey report could well be watered down too. If he has nothing to worry about, why not publish it in full? As for the focus on Partygate preventing the Government from getting on with other serious matters, what a load of tosh. As if everything comes to a halt just because of one matter. Are we expected to believe that work on the economic crisis, on the Irish border issue and Ukraine have all ground to a halt just because of Johnson’s indiscretions? Johnson clearly hoped that the longer he could drag it out, the more likely people were to get fed up with it. That doesn’t seem to be the case for many.

A grown man stalking another on an Internet forum isn’t particularly edifying behaviour but then he has previous. He did the same to others on the Ugly Inside forum and managed to get himself banned. If he has children I wonder how they would feel about their Dad stalking strangers on Internet forums. Still, he loves the attention and will be enjoying this. I guess it is topical as we have major trials concerning narcissists going on at the moment but Turkish has a way to go before he is in the Amber Heard and Rebekah Vardy league.

Given that we were led to believe that he was fined for the least serious breach of the rules it all sounds very dodgy. I am trying to work out how Johnson managed to attend a number of illegal events where others were fined but he wasn’t?

No more fines for Mr & Mrs Johnson then? Hmmmmmm

They were talking about the inflation rate on the radio today. Apparently it is more like 12%+ for the older generation as they spend a higher proportion of their income on fuel/food, products that have gone up the most. The windfall tax seems a no brainer, but needs to be part of a wider raft of measures to combat the cost of living crisis. A short while ago I was thinking that we could be heading for a major Winter of Discontent, but we are already in the shit big time.

I didn’t say that the previous High Court verdict should be ignored. It is possible that it was wrong though. I don’t know what evidence was presented to prove he physically abused Heard in that case but if it is the same as here then I am amazed the verdict went her way. Apparently a lot of sway was given when she said she would give the proceedings of the divorce settlement ($7m). To charity. The judge said that it showed that she was “a good person.” In the meantime she has not paid a penny to charity and is now saying that she thinks “pledge” and “donate” mean the same thing. In the cross examination her evidence is all over the place. She has even thrown in another accusation of a sexual assault from nowhere. After the alleged headbutt there are pictures of her that show no sign of trauma to the nose that may or may not have been broken (depending on what version of her evidence you read). From what I have seen so far, there is more substantial evidence that Heard assaulted Depp than Depp assaulted Heard. You can believe which version of events you like Egg, I suppose there are still people around who think that O.J. Is innocent because of the initial acquittal.

After you walked the dog perhaps watch the trial? You might find it interesting. It is very easy to make accusations, not so easy to substantiate them in court if you have little to back them up. For example, Depp is supposed to have sexually assaulted Heard with a bottle. If you were her, wouldn’t you file a complaint with the police? Wouldn’t you make sure you went to the hospital and got medical evidence? Wouldn’t you at least get photographic evidence of the damage it must have done? Yet nothing other than her testimony. She has told a number of lies already, why should the court believe her over that? It is a very serious accusation to throw at someone and she doesn’t seem to have any evidence to substantiate her claim. What if she is lying? She didn’t do very well under cross examination today. Perhaps watch tomorrow and at least you will have a more informed opinion.