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Wednesday's register

57 replies

LangCleg · 27/06/2018 09:47

Morning all!

LangCleg - all present and correct.

Got a rush job on so may or may not be about depending on how work-dedicated I can force myself to be!

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Bespin · 27/06/2018 17:12

Sorry here had a few deletions today though not due to current guidelines and rules and fully except that mumsnet felt. That we were all not Enguged in a. Decision but fighting among ourselves. Though I was not swearing as I don't. Like that so don't tend to do it

CosmicCanary · 27/06/2018 17:08

Still here 👐👐

R0wantrees · 27/06/2018 17:07

Confused I have a deleted post. No email. Blush

ScarletBegonias · 27/06/2018 16:29

Pratchet

Twitter was younger in my day but I don't recall being aware of senior officials having their own accounts which included references to government policy.

What I do remember is the difference between the quite tightly controlled departmental twitter accounts and occasional posts that ministers (or their special advisors) would make on their own Twitter accounts whenever the mood took them. But we won't go into that!

Pratchet · 27/06/2018 16:14

Thanks scarlet. Also, completely understood - we are all flotsam and jetsam here. Personal twitter should frankly be a sacrifice he has to make in that job. Nothing is completely private, after all.

ScarletBegonias · 27/06/2018 15:58

Pratchet

It's a good question.

I note Ollie's personal Twitter account is protected and he states that "Views are my own" - so he's seeking to distance it from being seen as an official government information feed. It may be that it's protected because he wants to stop it getting contaminated by 'inappropriate' comments (whatever that means in this context). He's not going to say anything which conflicts with his official position, of course.

Civil servants are supposed to be neutral and unbiased but his role seems to be to lead a team with the role of improving the lives of LGBT people, so he'll no doubt have views - and advise government - on what he sees as the best way of achieving that, and be enthusiastic about "improving equality and reducing discrimination". The Government Equalities Office website would tell you more about its responsibilities and priorities.

I'm not sure this helps you at all. I should emphasise that I left the civil service a few years ago and that, like Ollie with his Twitter account, the views I express here are my own.

Amalfimamma · 27/06/2018 15:55

Here syillb2 strikes but today I am neither in amalfi nor a mother.

Today I am a Saudi princess and whomever cares to disagree will get 100 lashes in the morning Grin

Pratchet · 27/06/2018 14:53

I'm here. Scarlet I want to ask you a question.

MistOnTheWater · 27/06/2018 14:29

Have been lurking for ages (v.sporadically posting) and have had to start posting today. So won't have had any strikes. Yet.

ImpYCelyn · 27/06/2018 14:17

Thanks arran and Scarlet 🙂

BeyondFemaleElitist · 27/06/2018 13:39

Speaking of oppressively warm...

www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/26/dangerous-heatwave-gender-travis/

massivelyouting · 27/06/2018 12:29

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BettyFloop · 27/06/2018 12:27

Here

Frankenterfer · 27/06/2018 12:25

Here.

EmpressOfSpartacus · 27/06/2018 12:24

Hello!

Still here & strike free so far.

Cascade220 · 27/06/2018 12:23

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arranfan · 27/06/2018 11:53

Previously Banned Poster, ImpYCelyn

ScarletBegonias · 27/06/2018 11:51

PBP = Previously Banned Poster.

Morning all. Bit of breeze here today so not as oppressively warm.

ImpYCelyn · 27/06/2018 11:46

Oh PBP is one I don’t know, what does it stand for please?

ImpYCelyn · 27/06/2018 11:45

I’m here. I’ve only been posting for a day, so I’m still strike free. But I did just say something quite bigoted, so who knows...

TerfsUp · 27/06/2018 11:29

Morning, all!

tobee · 27/06/2018 11:28

Squeaks "I'm still here!"

BlessBlessYawn · 27/06/2018 11:08

I came out of longtime lurkdom here yesterday and I replied to a thread that has now been deleted due to the OP being a PBP.

She seemed to be genuine so I assume that the ban was because of the new policy for FWR boards and not because they were a troll or GF etc. It's difficult to know what to say here, who to trust and so on.
It's also difficult not knowing who is likely to be banned next. Of course, there's no targeting of posters taking place Angry

Anyway, glad to see this thread each morning.

BeyondFemaleElitist · 27/06/2018 11:05

Here, miss 🙋‍♀️

(do you identity as miss, Lang?)