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  • Chris-P-BaconChris-P-Bacon Posts: 943
    raisingirl said:
    wild edges said:
    It can't be that difficult to stop empty flights surely?
    No, but if no one cares, they just don't get round to it. It's nobody's job to stop it, so it isn't stopped
    Airlines sometimes have to operate 'ghost flights' to keep their 'slots'
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2022
    If a plane doesn't fly from airport A to airport B, then it won't be at airport B when the passengers booked on it turn up at the airport .to fly on to airport C ... neither will the pilots and crews ... and the planes won't be getting their checks and maintenance that are scheduled to happen at certain places.  It causes all sorts of problems. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Looks like we'll have to wait for the report to see how Boris knew of the 'work event' in the garden. I can't believe that he heard a noise outside and went out to investigate, so presumably he was notified of it/knew about it before hand (was he on the 100 person mail list?), or even lent a hand in organising it.  How then was it put to him? 'Dear Boris, at 6pm tonight we're holding a works do to thank the staff for all their hard work' - irrespective, presumably the gathering had to have his agreement? Or can anyone organise 'works dos' in the garden at No 10?
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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Boris reminds me very much of a manager I once had.  At a meeting he made a statement, heard by about a dozen people, but flatly denied he had made that statement when he totally contradicted his original statement at the next meeting.
    In his world the only 'truth' was what he was saying at the time.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2022
    @KT53 I think this explains it ...

    https://www.verywellmind.com/understanding-the-narcissistic-sociopath-4587611

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited January 2022
    How very.very strange. Just listening to Radio 4 and the question was raised as to why the police at Downing St didn't intervene in the 'works do'. The politican acting as a commentator (Lord Faulkner) said that it would not be in their remit to intervene in such things. What? What does then a PM have to do inside the environs of 10 Downing St for the local police to react? What happens if he committed assault? What about rape? What about murder? Is a PM immune from local police action within that house?
    Surely, the police, if they witness the law being broken, must react in some way, irrespective of location or people involved?
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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I've just read this beautifully eloquent piece, and I'd defy anyone to be able to read it and not have tears welling up in their eyes

    https://uk.yahoo.com/news/rory-kinnear-day-no-10-131211912.html

    There are thousands of similar stories up and down this country.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2022
    Possibly those police are regarded as 'security' and just there to protect them from others, not from themselves (much as that might be needed )..

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited January 2022
    But aren't police, police and their overriding remit is upholding the law? Or else, as I asked, what else would they turn a blind eye to? What is the crime-line that would have to happen within no 10 for them to act? IF you believe the PM, he turned up and the 'works event' was already going. Why didn't the police advise those attending before the PM turned up, that they were breaking the law as they saw it (and how they applied it elsewhere)? Don't the security police have radios? If they wanted to keep on station, then call in the infraction and get a bobby on the beat to deal with it.


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2022
    Oh I agree with you @steveTu ... I just think that policing the government ... of whatever colour ... has developed a certain 'modus operandi' and blind eyes have been turned over the years  ...  it is now overdue for a radical overhaul ........  and I'm pretty sure that Boris isn't the right man to do it ..... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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