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X : Can you look at my business plan.
Me Sure .
X : ....
Me : What?
X : Thoughts on how to make it more successful.
Me : Is it successful now?
X : We have the plan, pitch, branding, marketing;, growth strategy, OKRs and financial case. What more do we need?
Me : Some engineers?
X : I don't follow.
Me : You have noise but no substance. Little to no understanding of the space you're operating in and none of the skills needed to make it happen.
X : That's why we need funding.
Me : Ah, for a pipedream.
X : We spent good money building our plan.
Me : Ah, a gullible pipedream.
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X : Have you seen #factcheckUK ?
Me : I'm aware of accusations that the Conservative party changed the display name of its social media account to this. Such actions go far beyond propaganda and into disinformation and deception. It questions the values of organisation ...
i.e. it would not be a simple case of spinning news anymore or being economical with the truth. Such an action crosses a line into deliberate deception. No political party should ever cross that line, it's more what you would expect from organised crime.
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Conservatives promised to plant 11M trees by 2020. They failed, spectacularly.

Del Boy Boris now promises to plant 30M by 2024.

Scotland just got on with it and planted 22M trees last year -

The Conservatives. All mouth and no trousers.
This time next year Rodders, we'll have a million trees ... the Conservatives seriously need to change their battle bus for a battered yellow robin reliant. At least, they'll be slightly more green than many of their policies ... shall we talk fracking?
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"I told you we could trust him" -
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1) Total loss of staff by the police since 2010 is closer to 40k - gov.uk/government/col…
2) The 20k more Police doesn't mean 20k more front line staff (of which we've lost 20k).
3) It's questionable whether we still have the infrastructure in place to train this increase.
... in other words, it's going to take a long time to undo the damage that austerity, privatisation, sell-offs (land etc) and quite frankly the Conservatives (with help from the LibDems) have done to our services over the last decade.
However, this is just supply side of such services ... there's the whole damage to the fabric of society, the 14M in poverty, the 120k excess deaths through austerity, the backlog of maintenance, the cuts to court service, the ... oh, it just goes on and on and on.
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Non-disclosure agreements. (NDA)

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