I’m team “just bulldoze the damn thing” fwiw. www.thenewworld.co.uk/its-time-to-...

Out of interest (genuinely): how many of those lawyers were American?

He is wise. Florida juries, per recent form in defamation cases, often are not.

What serious lawyer would ever advise issuing an apology while there’s an imminent legal threat? How did the BBC not have lines and briefing ready?

Is it even capable of fighting a case when some near its top seem not to want it to win?

…what? The uk population then was about 50 million!

Would it not have been easier to spend months promising you’d actually delivered them, before pivoting to say you’d definitely get them over by 2028 or so?

If you think you saw a previous version of this post:
1. No you didn’t
2. It’s possible I named the wrong soap and couldn’t put up with it, despite it serving the joke just as well as the correct one

Yes but they didn’t have to make it symmetrical..!

This is a very telling graphic, though I’m not sure what the hell is going on with its shape bsky.app/profile/empt...

I’ve said very clearly what I’m “alleging”, James. I don’t think this bizarre exchange is worth continuing for either of us.

The chancellor specifically made a pitch rolling speech *with accompanying off record briefing* to roll the pitch for this! It’s very obviously not a punt! I’m honestly baffled that you’re even trying this line: you don’t need *any* inside info to know it’s wrong, and you’ve got all that experience.