That may have been the most nothing article I’ve ever read.
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Which is why I never read papers etc You can’t believe anything that’s written unless it’s been posted on Facebook first 
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What makes me laugh is all the hypocrisy about environmental issues when it’s virtual signalling and when it’s not for virtue signalling it isn’t given a second thought, here we have the HQ wasting wrapping paper for a pointless gimmick.
I just hope it was the recyclable kind at least.
On a similar vein the Liberal Lefty whining of the BBC that Australia and Poland (BBC News this morning) are investing in coal mining and not getting in on the change in climate. The accepting in almost the same breath they have large coal mining industries and all that goes with it, so perhaps they are going to be as inclined to signing any agreements.
I don’t think this post means what you think it means.
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It’s amused me that the MOD has “to cut it’s cloth to meet ambition”, never going to happen.
Cut its cloth. No need for the apostrophe.
Doesn’t detract from the point, there is more chance of a seeing a mermaid riding a unicorn down Whitehall, than the MOD controlling spend.
Controlling spendING.
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In our company and many I converse with spend and spending are used to mean the same. So anything else you would like to pick up on, to avoid the point that the MOD have the financial acumen of an African dictatorship or Viv Nicholson, take your pick.
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What makes me laugh? I’m here in A&E on the last Saturday night before Christmas (toddler dislocated his elbow in the cot bars) and some drunks think they will only have a short wait. The place is rammed with standard saturday night injuries, but on a much larger scale
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I believe it depends on the usage of the word.
In your example ‘spend’ is used as a noun. In Teflon’s it’s arguably the verb, as it is referring to the process of controlling an indeterminate spend. (Whereas an average spend can be determined by reference to the determined spends already made.
Think of it with other examples, where the noun is also the verb. I.e. ‘vomit’
You wouldn’t say you were controlling vomit, as in that example it would suggest that you were marshalling a finite amount of vomit, as if it were alive. You would say you were controlling vomiting.
Run is also a useful example. Run is a noun, (like an event run) but you wouldn’t use an active verb immediately before it when you were using it as such.
(I know vomit is an odd example, but words like it are relatively rare, where the verb and the noun refer to the same thing.)
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Would you class this as GCSE level English 
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I’d call ‘spend’ and ‘spending’ very simple words.
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Sadly they seem to fast track the drunks and muppets who’ve been fighting, rather than sticking them in a cage outside so they can get on with it and treat the survivors in the morning. I took my dad to A&E late on a Saturday after he developed an eye problem. Old bill turned up with a load of idiots and they got seen before anyone else. Made me wonder what the hell was going on.
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So they expedited the release of police resources, so they could get back on the street instead of playing bouncer in A+E?
And, er, “an eye problem” compared to potential bleeding, breakages, concussion, etc… Can’t have been that serious.
Of course, my sympathies to him and hopefully it was all sorted.
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They may have been under arrest therefore under custody rules they should be in a cell, so treat and turf them and let the pc’s back on the streets soonest.
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Paw Patrol. Ryder starts off with a really clear Situation, Mission and Execution but every time he forgets A&C. Considering his team are all dogs surely he should be checking.
But then he’s very good at using his teams’ strengths and adapting well when things go wrong with the mission. Overall he probably passes Blue Leadership
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