The content management and single sourcing challenges for the UK Parliament:
I understand Queen’s speech delayed bc it has to be written on goat’s skin. That takes a week 1/2
— Nicholas Watt (@nicholaswatt) June 12, 2017
However, all is not quite what it seems:
“Just when you thought Goatgate had been cleared up, along comes the official line: It is not on vellum anymore. It is on “goatskin parchment paper” but confusingly it’s not actually goatskin. However it is very high quality, thick paper, which is why the ink takes several days to dry, and it then needs to be bound into a booklet, before being sent on to Her Majesty for signing. So it did have to go to the printers last week. And the paper does have the watermark of a goat”
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