@DavidMills73It isn't easy trying to explain a mathematical concept to someone with an underdeveloped brain, but kudos to that young lady for giving it a go.
'This is passionate...this is tetchy. See the difference?'
I am very surprised to hear that the PO might think a crime had taken place when in fact it hadn’t.Worth noting that the stamps may not actually be fake at all as well as the post office seems to be having some issues and declaring stamps as fake when evidence suggests its their fake detection at faultActually, my estimate was far too small anyway. 'Desposal' is much more expensive than disposal, requiring as it does the disposal to be carried out by a fully qualified despot.Needs an inquiry. Six Four figures will be a rounding error then.Just had to go to the post office to collect a card.Hefty claim against Amazon to be made?
The card had a counterfeit stamp on it because the person who sent it bought them from AmazonGet to four figures at least pretty quickly, I should think?
- Cost of postage recovery fee
- Cost of fake stamps
- Cost of time to re-tender procurement for replacement stamps
- Responsible desposal costs for rest of fake stamps
- Replacement cards for all items sent using counterfeit stamps (as some recipients may not collect)
- Damage to relationship with recipients due to undelivered/late cards
- Time dealing with Royal Mail and pursuing the claim against Amazon
- Damage to your and sender's reputation for being associated with counterfeit goods
- Legal fees related to all the above
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/nov/11/royal-mail-stamp-swap-customers-were-sent-warnings
That is unfair of you. She is Minister for Women and Equality Issues so her appearance yesterday before the Select Committee was entirely appropriate. It was also good that she was better informed on the issues than many on the Committee, some of whom had not apparently read the Cass Report. Commenting on trans issues or women's rights without reading the relevant reports or legal judgments, which quite a lot of commentators do, is unacceptable - particularly in politicians purporting to opine on these matters.She is also, I believe, self-appointed Minister for Transgenger Issues.FPTTBF she is very busy with more pressing matters. Becoming Tory Party leader requires a decent amount of graft - or do I mean grift?
Well it's rather reassuring to hear for once from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade. She's been so quiet of late I was beginning to wonder whether she was still amongst us. And of course there has been every reason to hear from her. She is the Minister currently in charge of the Post Office, so you might imagine that she would have something to say about the parade of liars, rogues, charlatans and crooks appearing on behalf of the PO at the Inquiry into the biggest public scandal of my lifetime.
Instead, silence.
I do not believe this is judicious restraint whilst the Inquiry gets on with its work. It is tacit support for the PO's policy of obstructing and delaying that work. Her Government owns the PO. It could tell its Board to stop acting the goat and start cooperating. You can draw your own conclusions from its failure to do so.
Is Kemi complicit, or is she merely lazy, incompetent, and indifferent?
How does she find the time?
A lot of people who like to play wise find some sort of weird sense in what Putin says and does, these tend to be people who think Ukraine should accept "reality" and cede territory, but it's plain to me that Putin is full of shit and quite possibly has also lost his marbles. By any normal measure the attack on Ukraine since 2022 has been an absolute disaster for Russia in terms of duration, lives lost, capital squandered, degradation of the Russian military, sanctions, the impact on Russian industry, their best and brightest fleeing, and more. If the Russian people were not so cowed Putin would have been hanged from a lamppost by now. He's proven to be a yet another terrible ruler of Russia.About that peace deal.In truth, Russia would snap your hand off for a deal along the current front tomorrow. Ukraine won't though, and quite right too. But that stance surely depends on the continued level of military assistance from Washington and the EU going forward.
Putin says there will be peace with Ukraine "only when we achieve our goals [...] and those goals have not changed."
They still include the "de-Nazification" and "demilitarization" of Ukraine – i.e. a total capitulation to Russia.
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1735228284391092582
I think ‘epidemic’ is derogatory, it’s not used to describe sharp rises in things that are desirableIt's a very ungenerous and quite a silly interpretation given 'epidemic' is also used to describe any sharp rise in something among a population. Osborne herself used it in that sense to describe child poverty. It's a bit like when the Corbynites got offended when Jess Philips said she'd "stab Corbyn in the front" not the back or Chuka Umunna (remember him?) said "call off the dogs" and claimed he was calling members "dogs". Everyone knows what the person means, but if you're obtuse enough you can twist the meaning to something worse.Wow.Badenoch had said there was an ‘epidemic’ of teenagers being told they were trans, so that woman wasn’t really that far wide of the mark to say she’d compared it to a disease was she?
In politics this is imho the most important vid clip in a very long time.
Can't see how she will not be leader of the opposition in 2025.
Forget all this crap about Farage.
And I reckon she is the one that Starmer and Reeves fear will deny them a second term.
I'm on at 9 but she is still available at round 4.
https://twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/1734999229511172581
As a parent of a trans kid, I can tell you it's nothing to do with what you have to say about it.As a parent to two teenagers, I can assure you that the best way to make sure your kids aren't trans, is to tell them that they are.Wow.Badenoch had said there was an ‘epidemic’ of teenagers being told they were trans, so that woman wasn’t really that far wide of the mark to say she’d compared it to a disease was she?
In politics this is imho the most important vid clip in a very long time.
Can't see how she will not be leader of the opposition in 2025.
Forget all this crap about Farage.
And I reckon she is the one that Starmer and Reeves fear will deny them a second term.
I'm on at 9 but she is still available at round 4.
https://twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/1734999229511172581
As a parent to two teenagers, I can assure you that the best way to make sure your kids aren't trans, is to tell them that they are.Wow.Badenoch had said there was an ‘epidemic’ of teenagers being told they were trans, so that woman wasn’t really that far wide of the mark to say she’d compared it to a disease was she?
In politics this is imho the most important vid clip in a very long time.
Can't see how she will not be leader of the opposition in 2025.
Forget all this crap about Farage.
And I reckon she is the one that Starmer and Reeves fear will deny them a second term.
I'm on at 9 but she is still available at round 4.
https://twitter.com/mrianleslie/status/1734999229511172581
FPTDon't worry. You'll find the right train eventually.
I recently turned 48, is it too late for me?