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  • patient_dream
    patient_dream Posts: 4,014 Forumite
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    Now he's deleting comments on that post.  
    Blocked me ages ago - numpty, "he can't handle the truth" [in a Jack Nicholson voice]
    And the truth is, the man and his joke IAS gets more like childrens hour every day. 
  • ChirpyChicken
    ChirpyChicken Posts: 1,995 Forumite
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    The truth is:

    He's a solicitor, dons a suit, 'assumes the position' (as a self-styled 'expert' industry spokesperson) and delivers his spiel calmly. So there is an ever-present danger that the more credulous MHCLG rookie staff (and some Ministers with blinkers on) could easily fall for it, like a few naive journalists still do.

    Same as some Judges used to fall for Gladstones claptrap, a decade ago.

    Generally - thank goodness - at most courts, that mindset has ended! Thank goodness for Manchester, Warwick and Southampton courts leading the way.
    Snake oil sales men are easily spotted.
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