Once again I find myself compelled to comment on whoever is doing the page layouts for UK papers. This makes it look like Kate & Meg want to end the stealth tax amid their frosty silence on the issue. (It also looks like Jamie Oliver is a
twit making £500 cakes but that seems to be par for the course for him)
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This looks like if my designers at the newspaper made a layout based on the lead story and second lead I informed them about early in the shift, but then my lead story with the photo was 'stolen' for the front page at nearly the end of the shift, and I was left with only the second lead without photos and no other candidates to work as the lead story on my page. But as the designers refused to work on anything but the front and certain other priority pages that late into the shift, I had to just smush content into whatever layout I had. Although of course I would have been yelled at forever if I'd made a mess of the page like this
This was why I quickly learnt to design my own pages - depending solely on the designers would sometimes result in such layouts (but more sensible ones) because they'd be like this looks good and fits everything, so either fit your content into this or DIY. On any good day there would be at least one person who'd get stuck like this, and every once in a while there were multiple, with threats of resigning flying around
Although to be fair, a couple of things can be done to fix this layout, but it will still lay the burden of understanding on the reader.
This looks rather deliberate though. Smegs saying that she wants to stop the BRF somehow cheating the government/taxpayers. That's the sense I'd get as a layperson/in a hurry. Or if not Smegs then someone or the other basically accusing the BRF of cheating the taxpayers. A negative sense either way.
The next time those two whinge, the BRF should release an account of what they've actually received/been receiving from the BRF/Charles. If nothing else then just leak to to the press how much Charles is saving with those two being overseas. Some leaks are good!
