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vampyrefate

What do they know?

Oct 01, 2009 12:05

From one of the ITT lists that I scan every day...

The aims of this project are to assist the Scottish Government (SG) and its stakeholders in providing a seamless, high quality programme and project management for a specific high profile programme of ceremonial events in the event of a Royal demise in Scotland that could occur at any time ( Read more... )

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thegreatgonzo October 1 2009, 11:20:19 UTC

It would be interesting to find out what odds a bookie would give you on Liz or Phil going in the next 5 years given they are both in their 80s.

vampyrefate October 1 2009, 11:25:22 UTC

Contract length was for 3 years with an optional 12 month extension (!)

thegreatgonzo October 1 2009, 14:57:50 UTC

4 years would take Liz to 87 and Phil to 92. I probably wouldn't bet against it.

bonedancer October 1 2009, 15:28:38 UTC

And they do spend a non-trivial amount of the year at Balmoral. Which I'm told is north of the Tyne and thus in Scotland.

vampyrefate October 1 2009, 15:36:45 UTC

This is true.

This week's been quite fun for ITTs. On monday there was a council project that needed to define parents in more detail:

"parents (mothers and fathers)" was used in 2 places in the summary. I started exclaiming that "no one could possibly need the notion of parents defining given the context of the ITT being family support", but it was then pointed out that one could have "same sex parents". I then decided that I didn't want to apply for such a blatantly homophobic ITT(!)*

There was also another one to teach councillors IT skills.

* and ignored that myco had neither the skill nor the capacity to deliver what they wanted.

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