Iain Dale cannot add up for tuppence
According to Iain Dale, the government is offering a sweetner, bribe, of £3,000 per day compensation for those released without charge. He says, that £3,000 per day for 42 days is £42,000. I am almost totally innumerate. But even I know £42,000 x 3 = £126,000!
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It's £3000 a day for every day after 28 days up to 42 days John. So a max of 14 days at £3,000.
ReplyDeleteTell you what, if I had been banged up for 28 days I would be begging and pleading to be locked up for the full 42days and get the £42,000.
Whatever, I can see problems with this because it is generally £90-100 per day for false imprisonment...
ReplyDeleteYou say 'whatever'. Admit it. You got it wrong.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe you are the real Iain Dale because his avatar has not shown up with either the comment or in the Recent Readers column.
ReplyDeleteNo I don't admit I got it wrong. Merely a concession that there may be an alternative interpretation.
"In his latest concession to backbench rebels Gordon Brown has said that anyone released after 28 days would get £3,000 a day compensation".
I read this to mean they would get £3,000 for each of the 28 days. I would expect a top political blogger with writing and editing skills could express himself more clearly...