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Let's see if a lettuce can outlast the merger (the other highlight of the Truss disaster).

And if it does turn out to be a short-lived shambles and managers do finally admit defeat, they will have extend the "Monday-Friday service" to weekends aka the whole day because we can't go on with the shambles we had this afternoon although i do agree that it cannot be done in 45 days.

On what metric do you think the new news channel could be described as a failure

It won’t be on viewing figures because as we know, news channel ratings aren’t very high in the first place, and people are very loyal to the BBC. Huw Edwards could present the Ten from a beige broom cupboard and I bet the ratings wouldn’t change.

You only have to see this afternoon's farce (trying to report a UK Breaking story of no use to World viewers during a simulcast) to see why the merger will last only slightly longer than Liz Truss's time as PM and that's me being generous-What's your metric for it being successful?