Of course the easy way out of it over the medium / long term is to just use the new nationalised entity to buy it's own rolling stock, gradually phasing out the stock owned by the ROSCOs, although this would take a good 20-25 years to replace everything and the political cycle simply doesn't...
We’re taking the piss but good on Manchester police for solving all the other crimes to be able to spare so many for this issue.
Or maybe they’re just trying to work out what it is they’re actually supposed to be investigating?
So if there’s found to be no case to answer (again) will the Mail pick up the bill for wasting police time or will taxpayers have to fund their latest whim?
My expectation with the Rayner thing, as with the way the Mail lost it's mind over "beergate", is it will turn out to be nothing once again and those who pushed it will end up with egg on their faces.
If not, then Starmer simply sacks her.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but it is fascinating how the lines like this about Starmer’s Labour are almost exactly the same as what was being said about Blair’s Labour in 1996, the only real difference being the individual popularity of the leaders (which I think other factors such as the...
Exactly, you just have to look at the way the Green pledge was lied about and weaponised to force a u-turn to see how it works. Hell you can even go back to Uxbridge and the bare-faced lying about ULEZ to see what happens.
I think it won't happen until they've had their inevitable post-election combustion and someone emerges who's prepared to face down the nutters in the rank-and-file, Neil Kinnock style.
I see it more as a reaction to the ridiculous overreaction in the press TBH. This has now been headline news for three days, despite several major wars taking place.
A single comment can be forgiven IMHO, once evidence emerged that it was more then they acted
As for Guido Fawkes, his late night tweeting last night should disbar his contributions from being taken seriously
I think he has come from a world (at the DPP) where you take the time and review the evidence, but that isn’t something that suits the News cycle so they start baying for blood immediately and you have to act immediately to satisfy them.