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Absolutely brilliant to compare it to the Truss disaster. That's already happening every weekend.

The problem is, though, is that if it does go as badly as some fear, it might be harder to 'remove' than Liz Truss was, and certainly not possible in 45 days. Plus, even if mangers do admit defeat, the best we are realistically going to get are the kinds of things I was suggesting months ago should be done anyway (i.e., utilising existing teams better and merging them with the proposed breaking team to create a separate daytime service).

As I've said since the plans were announced last spring, it's fundamentally a bad idea on editorial grounds, even if I appreciate the reasons radical decisions have to be made. While I do see potential ways of working and formats that would be not-terrible, any optimism I have is constantly eroded by what we see with existing simulcasts, particularly at weekends.