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    Gawd 'elp.

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    Hope he's right,Col.
    Generally apolitical, but 1 had a small wager on her at 80/1 to make final 2, purely on the basis of it being a daft price.

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    Gift for Starmer.
    All comers, all grounds, all beaten!

    This perfect mix of poetry and destruction.

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    Not the oleaginous one; God help us!

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    Quote Originally Posted by barjon View Post
    Maybe not the nuts and bolts part of it, grassy. In my experience, admittedly early IT days, I thought of IT merely as replicating what we did with pen and paper without a proper understanding of what else it could do with the information it held. Thus, I found it difficult to formulate what I wanted from it since I was ignorant of what it could do, post implementation my questions were always along the lines of “can it do this?” with the inevitable answer “It could have done if you’d specified it”. Similarly, I struggled to question capability at presentations which meant that overblown promises went unchallenged with disappointment the result.

    Maybe the Post Office is a case in point. How senior management could believe that hundreds of their sub-postmasters had suddenly become fraudulent following introduction of Horizon (despite previous audits) can only be because they could not challenge those responsible for the Horizon system properly,

    Ps: I’ll enjoy reading LinkedIn
    Perhaps I should have said "not very much about it", though fundamentally, I think it's largely a truism.

    One of the keys to success is having an IT partner you can trust, and someone on the 'inside' that can keep them honest.

    A high-level requirement, as I described above......or even a vague notion of what you want as a client.......are usually sufficient as a starting-point. The two sides would then work-out what they really means in practical terms, and build the IT solutions to meet those needs.

    A bit simplistic, perhaps, but that's how it generally works in an environment that is more-or-less functional.
    "Beat the price and lose. It's what we do".

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    Quote Originally Posted by reet hard View Post
    Hope he's right,Col.
    Generally apolitical, but 1 had a small wager on her at 80/1 to make final 2, purely on the basis of it being a daft price.
    Is this an 80/1 bet on Truss making the final two, reet?
    "Beat the price and lose. It's what we do".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grasshopper View Post
    Is this an 80/1 bet on Truss making the final two, reet?
    I thought it was Grass {B365) but it seems I didn't click the 'accept' button.

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    FFS, pal - nightmare!
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    Boris could be back in the Cabinet. Starmer lacks oomph.

    Can't see a real leader on either side to take us through some troubled times.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tout Seul View Post
    Can't see a real leader on either side to take us through some troubled times.
    That debate last night was a tough watch, two idiots not well handled by Sophie Raworth who would struggle to control two garden gnomes.

    Geezo, if these two are the best the tories can come up with...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tout Seul View Post
    Boris could be back in the Cabinet. Starmer lacks oomph.

    Can't see a real leader on either side to take us through some troubled times.
    I think the concept of a political 'leader' is seriously over-rated. Cabinet has joint accountability, and whenever we've elected a 'leader' that dominates Cabinet (Thatcher, Johnson) through force-of-personality, it has been an unmitigated disaster.

    Right now, I'd take safe, boring, Keith without a second's thought, because the only priority should be consigning this pox of a Tory Government to the history-books (hopefully to be followed shortly thereafter by their entire shi*thhouse of a party).
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    When I’d it become necessary for PM’s to have oomph? I don’t recall it been talked about when Cameron or May were PM’s.

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    Oomph is about all they’ve got to offer.

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    I could use some oomph.
    I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
    Take a bow for the new revolution

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    Truss. No surprise of course, but it's hard to know whether to laugh or cry.
    Last edited by Grasshopper; 5th September 2022 at 12:45 PM.
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    In Lizzie we Truss!
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    Apparantly Taylor Swift has been parachuted in to be minister of songs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marb View Post
    Apparantly Taylor Swift has been parachuted in to be minister of songs.
    Gonna have a hard job, there’s not going to be much to sing about.
    Last edited by barjon; 5th September 2022 at 2:48 PM.

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    At least Patel and Dorries have been relegated.
    I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
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    I read that Dorries had refused to continue as culture secretary? Probably because she’s expecting to be in the Lords soon.

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