{"id":1842,"date":"2013-05-16T09:14:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T09:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2013-07-06T08:24:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T08:24:38","slug":"the-polite-brush-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"The polite brush off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been more reaction to the Nottingham Crown Court murder case interpreter no-show last week (<a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1824\" title=\"Capita questions court clerk\u2019s integrity\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>As previously mentioned, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Ellis_(British_politician)\">Northampton North MP Michael Ellis<\/a> stated he was going raise the matter of Capita&#8217;s woeful service under its courts and tribunals interpreting contract with the Secretary of State for Justice, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Grayling\">Christopher Grayling<\/a>, as in Mr Ellis&#8217; opinion the service was &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northamptonchron.co.uk\/news\/crime\/du-interpreter-row-system-out-of-control-says-mp-ellis-1-5082858\">out of control<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ellis has now contacted Chris Grayling, as has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northampton-news-hp.co.uk\/News\/Northampton-News\/MP-raises-concern-with-Minister-in-Anxiang-Du-missing-interpreter-case-20130516084531.htm\">reported by the Northampton Herald &amp; Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Ellis said Mr Grayling agreed to look into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cMr Grayling was concerned and said he would be looking into it and would take appropriate action in due course.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In my experience, &#8220;<em>looking into it<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>take appropriate action in due course<\/em>&#8221; can be paraphrased as a &#8220;<em>polite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/brush+off\">brush off<\/a><\/em>&#8220;. If Mr Ellis doesn&#8217;t understand what a polite brush off is, in plainer language Grayling was actually saying: &#8220;<em>I couldn&#8217;t give a toss<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>After all, Chris Grayling is far too busy at the moment taking the wrecking ball to criminal legal aid (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1635\" title=\"First they came for the interpreters, then the lawyers\">posts passim<\/a><\/em>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2013\/may\/09\/probation-service-work-chris-grayling\">trashing the probation service<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been more reaction to the Nottingham Crown Court murder case interpreter no-show last week (posts passim). As previously mentioned, Northampton North MP Michael Ellis stated he was going raise the matter of Capita&#8217;s woeful service under its courts and tribunals interpreting contract with the Secretary of State for Justice, Christopher Grayling, as in Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[31,22,20],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","tag-crapita","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}