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Two fingers to the Birmingham Mail at Florida Obama bash

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author

Posted in Bootnotes, 6th November 2008 12:32 GMT

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Brummie hack Adam Smith earlier this week quit his post at the Birmingham Post and Mail, having evidently pondered his future at some length through the bottom a glass at an Obama victory bash in Florida.

According to the Press Gazette, his former employer is "currently in the midst of a round of cost-cutting with many journalists taking voluntary redundancy". Smith splendidly demonstrated to a TV interviewer just how we Brits do voluntary redundancy:

Well done that man. ®

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