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by Scoundreller 894 days ago
> The Post Office also paid independent people to figure out where the problem is, and the answer was "Horizon is garbage, you can't rely on it". So, they fired those people.

A UK tradition!

> In 2009, the government came under fire when ACMD [Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs] chair David Nutt of Imperial College London was sacked for questioning government drug policy in public

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/little-has-changed-in-uk...

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As I understand it, there's an ongoing PPE thing as well.
Let me guess, they (also) only sacked people that went in one direction with respect to gov policy and not the other direction?