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‘It was like a poker game’: on the receiving end of a DWP cold call

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There's a gap in the market for politicians who throw ideology in the bin, give the culture war a swerve and just get on with doing the job. At the moment Matt Hancock is filling it.

5:12 PM - 2 Mar 2020

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EXC: The special adviser who confronted Dominic Cummings over his “unkindness” two weeks ago has been removed from her job

Lynn Davidson is out of her post at the MoD and is leaving government

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:The worst thing, and why I haven't linked it, is the pile on of folk agreeing with him.

Thankfully interspersed on occasion with rational folk pointing out that nobody much is saying Priti Patel shouldn't be a minister per se, it's just that she's done some bad stuff. Whereas Meghan is accused of what exactly?

Willow904 wrote:https://amp.theguardian.com/society/202 ... ssion=true

‘It was like a poker game’: on the receiving end of a DWP cold call

I am actually lost for words.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:The worst thing, and why I haven't linked it, is the pile on of folk agreeing with him.

Thankfully interspersed on occasion with rational folk pointing out that nobody much is saying Priti Patel shouldn't be a minister per se, it's just that she's done some bad stuff. Whereas Meghan is accused of what exactly?

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... lip-rutnam

Man jailed for drunken shove that led to partner's death
A man who shoved his partner during a drunken row at their Lake District home, causing a fatal head injury, has been jailed for three years by a judge at Carlisle Crown Court.

Patrick Webster
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Katrina Fletcher, 64, fell on to a bedroom cabinet at the flat she shared with Patrick Webster, 62, in St Kentigern’s Close, Keswick, and suffered a brain injury from which she died two weeks later.

Prosecutor Francis McEntee said the couple were known locally to be heavy drinkers who often argued, and Webster had two previous convictions for assaulting Miss Fletcher.

Webster, whose latest address was in Walker Road, Aberdeen, had denied manslaughter but changed his plea to guilty just before the trial.

Colin Aylott QC, mitigating, said Webster knew he had lost "the person he loved most in the world" as a result of his own stupidity.

' You must live for the rest of your life with the fact that you have caused her death." from Judge Peter Davies, passing sentence.

Three-year jail term shocks domestic violence charity
A three-year jail sentence for a man who killed his partner during a drunken argument at their home in Keswick has been criticised by a charity that supports victims of domestic violence.

Patrick Webster, 62, pushed Katrina Fletcher, who fell over, causing a head injury that from which she died later in hospital.

Jo Cook, from the domestic violence support charity, The Freedom Project West Cumbria, says the length of his sentence sends out the wrong message:

'I think her family very clearly stated that they didn't feel like it had been justice and I think anyone reading the facts of the case would be quite shocked at what the outcome of the case has been."

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... t-benefits

I believe this is what is called in Mafia circles a 'shake down'.