George Ryall

@gryall.uk

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Scout leading, ale drinking, tuba playing, astrophysicist, town councillor, @prospectunion.bsky.social NEC member, Gloucester Rugby fan. All views expressed are my own.

The Lord-Lieutenant, as a county-level Crownappointed
role, would need to be hosted by one
of the successor councils, most appropriately
Greater Oxford, as a shared ceremonial function
across the county. This arrangement would
maintain continuity in representing the Crown
and align with precedents established following
other local government reorganisations
This proposal recognises the important role that
the Lord Lieutenancy plays in the ceremonial
county of Berkshire, and will seek to continue with
the existing arrangements there as well.

Excerpt of text: One of the things we'd abandoned on joining the time-travel project - in addition to annual leave allowance and choice of accommodation - was trade union membership. The Ministry wouldn't recognise any of the existing unions. There was some semantic trickery that meant we weren't technically managers and so couldn't join the FDA, and as time-travel was too newly established and too secret an industry we couldn't join the PCS. As a ministry we were small...