Apparently, Thames Water is running out of cash while still being obliged to produce water. This makes one wonder whether the accounts which have ignored such a development can be classified as showing a true and fair view.
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It now transpires that the hundreds of postmasters and postmistresses who have been grotesquely mistreated (i.e. all their savings taken, bankruptcies, suicides) are having to sue the Post Office on a case by case basis for the compensation due to them pursuant to the unravelling of the Horizon scandal. Needless to add these people are almost all exhausted and have no savings to hand to finance civil litigation. Here surely HMG should step in. The Post Office is seen as a branch of HMG and the electorate want fair play to apply. Justice has to accept that those who have been wronged must be immediately paid in full and more. Under no circumstances should some lawyers be allowed to get away with the view that the Post Office must have claims against it proved. HMG must speak for the state and impose justice even if Fujitsu do not meet their share of bill.
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Say Jeremy Clarkson should be paraded through the streets naked rather than the Duchess of Sussex, there would be a disaster. I have seen a picture of the Duchess adjacent to her husband in bed. She has allowed the duvet to rise up a little such that we legmen get a full vision of the naked left hand side of the Duchess. Come back Duchess. All is forgiven.
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Sir Ed Davey says supermarkets have been profiteering. Of course in so remarking he may be a copper-bottomed idiot. But it is far more probable that he is just another politician telling yet another silly lie.
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The arch bish bosh merchant, J Welby, is determined to see that the UK is short of cash by sticking to his anti-Rwanda as a bolthole plan. Given that he has trained as an accountant this is disgracefully irresponsible. As for the Court of Appeal’s judgement, words fail me. I know central Africa well and I can assure all those who do not that the weather is terrific and so is the beer.
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Finally, there was a time when Yorkshiremen were regarded as bluff and sensible. However, the Yorkshire Building Society has shown serious deterioration in the county. I particularly want as many as possible to apply for a current account and then see how long it is operational before YBS’s committee of busybodies close it down. A bonus will be paid for the most preposterous reason for the closing of the account. Competition will be fierce.