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Jardin
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But @janiep just quoted her: "Those are off the record figures I've been given from Policemen and from firemen". Off the record usually means not official like.
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But @janiep just quoted her: "Those are off the record figures I've been given from Policemen and from firemen". Off the record usually means not official like.
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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Yes but she was trying to make them official by dismissing the official death toll figures at the time of the interview which was ridiculousBut @janiep just quoted her: "Those are off the record figures I've been given from Policemen and from firemen". Off the record usually means not official like.
It's not really about the numbers or where she got them from, it's the fact that she wouldn't accept that an official figure would take time to come out and tried to make out that it was a cover-up. Basically she was out to score political points by shit-stirring up people's raw grief.But @janiep just quoted her: "Those are off the record figures I've been given from Policemen and from firemen". Off the record usually means not official like.
zinedine
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So she was told something off the record, in other words in confidence and she blabbed it? Nice.
I also don't believe her. Why would a member of the emergency services tell her that knowing she could blab it and make them look daft?
GordonMuchallNo1Fan
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That's my take on it as well.
Lankester Merrin
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Hope you don't mind me bumping this but the Independent Press Standards Organisation have just ruled on this. They found against Skwakbox.
8. With regards to the D-notice story, the publication said that the complainant’s blog was the first outlet to publish it, and the complainant had since accepted that it was inaccurate. It said that the blog had been widely criticised for spreading “fake news” following this story, and it considered that it should have been immediately obvious to the complainant that the allegations were false as D-notices were only used for matters of national security. It also argued that the blog had asserted that the claims were likely to be true: it had stated “if it is true that the government has issued a D-notice – and every instinct is screaming that it is” and went on to state that if it were the case “then the government has placed a national security gag on mainstream news editors to prevent them from disclosing what’s already known about the number of lives lost at Grenfell Tower.”
9. The publication also noted that its article had stated that the complainant’s blog had reported “claims” that Theresa May was under investigation by the Cabinet Office. It said that there was no evidence in this blog that the author had made any attempt to verify the claims.
https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/ruling/?id=16690-17
Apologies if SEB.
