Delivering a redundancy notice is a thankless task.
Redundancy in delivering the exhibition's number 1 message, phylogenetic relationships, helped ensure that visitors got it.
"The defence secretary is presiding over decline and only found his voice after delivering tens of thousands of redundancies, capability gaps and failing to balance the books.
"We are committed to delivering these changes with no compulsory redundancies".
He said: "At a time when this council is delivering a programme of cuts, closures and redundancies, it is crass and insensitive to give public money".
Which meant, ironically, that Holt had to turn to the method and the rhetoric of the fictional court case, delivering a kind of compromise between the methodical redundancy of the courtroom and the satisfactions of drama.
"LU is committed to delivering the reduction in operational staff numbers without any compulsory redundancies," said a statement.
Too often local council leaders become national figures for all the wrong reasons, either purely political or personal – Shirley Porter, in Westminster, for alleged gerrymandering, and Derek Hatton in Liverpool, for sacking his own workers, their redundancy notices delivered by a fleet of taxis.
We've also made clear that our proposals will be delivered with no compulsory redundancies, and we remain available at all times to speak with union representatives".
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said: "It is with great regret that we have had to make redundancies to deliver the reduction in the size of the armed forces, but unfortunately they were unavoidable due to the size of the defence deficit that this government inherited.
