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- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 1 day ago:
Fuck the monarchy. Fuck this snivelling pathetic show of fealty to someone who doesn’t know nor care about your existence. Fuck saying this is on behalf of everyone at Feddit.UK.
- Comment on Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees 5 days ago:
The article also discusses the practical and how it took one candidate 21 tries to pass
- Comment on Learner driver fails theory test for 128th time despite spending nearly £3k on fees 5 days ago:
Considering the potential consequences of incompetent driving, I’m surprised there’s not a cap on the amount of attempts already.
If not a cap on the total, at least something like “no more than 12 attempts allowed in a year”. If evenly spaced that allows 1 attempt per month, giving time to practice and revise what was failed before.
Any more than that seems to be a case of throwing shit at the wall until enough sticks, or rather, make enough attempts and eventually you’re bound to do one without any majors. That hardly proves competence and capability though, which is really the point of testing in the first place.
- Comment on YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations 1 week ago:
Forces implies an unwillingness and resistance. Knowing YouTube, they were probably more than happy to help in the covering up of war crimes.
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 1 week ago:
Aye, that’s true. My point was just that to claim the UK is Labour party led (in contrast with Italy’s neo-fascists) doesn’t really work as a contrast because they’re not really contrasting. The UK’s current Labour party is authoritarian, pro-capital, pro-austerity, anti-welfare state, anti-immigrant, anti-freedom of expression, anti-protest, anti-democracy, pro-Trump, and pro-Farage.
They’re not the Labour party any more (although that’s been obvious since 1997 when they rebranded as New Labour) but to those who don’t follow UK politics they still have the marketing of socialists, of pro-welfare state, of being pro-democracy and pro-worker. That is not the case, and they probably have more in common with Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, neo-fascist party, than they do with 20th century Labour from which they are so closely associated.
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 1 week ago:
The Labour Party had won a landslide victory at the 1945 general election, and went on to enact policies of what became known as the post-war consensus, including the establishment of the welfare state and the nationalisation of 20 per cent of the entire economy.[2] The government’s spell in office was marked by post-war austerity measures; the crushing of pro-independence and communist movements in Malaya; the grant of independence to India, Pakistan, Ceylon, and Burma; the engagement in the Cold War against Soviet Communism; and the creation of the country’s National Health Service (NHS).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attlee_ministry
A number of liberalising social reforms were passed through parliament during Wilson’s first period in government. These included the near abolition of capital punishment, decriminalisation of sex between men in private, liberalisation of abortion law and the abolition of theatre censorship. The Divorce Reform Act 1969 was passed by Parliament (and came into effect in 1971). Such reforms were mostly via private member’s bills on ‘free votes’ in line with established convention, but the large Labour majority after 1966 was undoubtedly more open to such changes than previous parliaments had been.
The franchise was also extended with the reduction of the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen in 1969.[1]
While condemning racial discrimination (and adopting legislation to make it an offence)
Education held special significance for a Labourite of Wilson’s generation, in view of its role in both opening up opportunities for those from working-class backgrounds and enabling Britain to seize the potential benefits of scientific advances. Under the first Wilson government, for the first time in British history, more money was allocated to education than to defence.[2]
One notable effect was the first entry of women into university education in significant numbers. More broadly, higher education overall was significantly expanded
Wilson also deserves credit for grasping the concept of an Open University, to give adults who had missed out on higher education a second chance through part-time study and distance learning.
Campaigns were also launched by the government to encourage people to take up means-tested benefits to which they were entitled to.[9] For instance, a publicity campaign launched by the government increased the fraction of children eligible to get free school meals.[10]
en.wikipedia.org/…/Labour_government,_1964–1970
Although the 1974–1979 Labour Government faced a number of economic difficulties, it was nevertheless able to carry out a broad range of reforms during its time in office. During Harold Wilson’s final premiership, from 1974 to 1976, a number of changes were carried out such as the introduction of new social security benefits and improvements in the rights of tenants. In March 1974, an additional £2 billion was announced for benefits, food subsidies, and housing subsidies, including a record 25% increase in the state pension. Council house rents were also frozen. Council house building continued on a substantial scale, although there was now a greater emphasis on modernising older properties rather than replacing them with new ones. That year, national insurance benefits were increased by 13%, which brought pensions as a proportion of average earnings “up to a value equivalent to the previous high, which was reached in 1965 as a result of Labour legislation.” In order to maintain the real value of these benefits in the long term, the government introduced legislation which linked future increases in pensions to higher incomes or wages.[10] In 1974–1975, social spending was increased in real terms by 9%. In 1974, pensions were increased in real terms by 14%, while in early 1975 increases were made in family allowances. There were also significant increases in rate and rent subsidies, together with £500 million worth of food subsidies.[11]
To help those with disabilities, the government introduced an Invalid Care Allowance, a Mobility Allowance, a Non-Contributory Invalidity Pension for those unable to contribute through national insurance, and other measures. To combat child poverty, legislation to create a universal Child Benefit was passed in 1975 (a reform later implemented by the Callaghan government).[13] To raise the living standards of those dependent on national insurance benefits, the government index-linked short-term benefits to the rate of inflation, while pensions and long-term benefits were tied to increases in prices or earnings, whichever was higher.[14]
- Comment on Italy will be the latest country to require age verification for porn sites 1 week ago:
To say that the UK is currently Labour led is like saying Germany from 1933 - 1945 was run by socialists (national socialists as it were).
Their name means fuck all when their actions say the opposite.
- Comment on More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care 2 weeks ago:
Freedom of information data from Kent county council (KCC), which is controlled by Reform UK, has documented 345 children going missing from their area, with 56 of those still missing.
Somehow I don’t think this is a coincidence.
- Comment on Catholic Priest Charged Over Calls to Bomb Mosques and Shoot Muslims in Neo-Nazi Chatrooms 2 weeks ago:
During police interviews, Rowles said he was not racist and joined the online groups because he was lonely and had a sexual fetish for role play.
Rowles said he was not racist
not racist
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this, why do so many racists argue that they’re not racist?
Also
he was lonely and had a sexual fetish for role play
a sexual fetish for role play
The court was told he described himself in an online profile as a 16-year-old skinhead neo-Nazi and a loner.
A sexual fetish to be a 16 year old boy?..
- Comment on UK steps up review of headlight glare as drivers complain of being dazzled 2 weeks ago:
Do you think the government is just 5 people or something?
The government is vast, with many people involved in many different aspects of life.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 2 weeks ago:
hivemind
On the decentralised platform, with everyone from Russian tankies, to Portuguese anarchists, to American MAGAts and everything in between on it? If you say so…
- Comment on British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview 2 weeks ago:
British Airways outs themselves as pro-genocide and anti freedom of expression.
- Comment on King Charles hopes nature film will 'inspire' viewers 5 weeks ago:
The King’s Foundation says the feature-length TV film, provisionally titled Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision, will be screened on Amazon’s Prime Video early next year.
Interesting that the King, of all people, chose to broadcast this on a private corporate channel instead of the BBC. Did the BBC reject it? Why Amazon, a huge polluter?
- Comment on Going ‘behind enemy lines’ at a far-right demo I saw how fascism hides behind a veneer of normality 5 weeks ago:
…blogspot.com/…/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html?m=1
I sometimes fear that
people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress
worn by grotesques and monsters
as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.Fascism arrives as your friend.
It will restore your honour,
make you feel proud,
protect your house,
give you a job,
clean up the neighbourhood,
remind you of how great you once were,
clear out the venal and the corrupt,
remove anything you feel is unlike you…It doesn’t walk in saying,
"Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."- Michael Rosen
- Comment on Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag 5 weeks ago:
Ersin Celik was born in 1982 making him about 43 (depending on month born).
I can fully understand why he would view a small 22 year old as a little kid. She’s half his age.
You can be fully aware someone is a grown adult and at the same time pity them as just a kid, especially one being tortured by a genocidal state.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 5 weeks ago:
A solarPUNK performing speech control?
I said the word fuck. Not bigotry, not insults.
The vitriol is due to their confident ignorance in the face of facts. They were corrected by the admin of the UK server as to there not being a UK green party and responded with an insulting imperialist stance that they all fly under the Union Jack anyway. Throughout this comment thread they responded with nonsense or holier than thou stances. Even in response to my comment they frame it as a debate and order me to stop when there is no debate to be had.
Your comment is a disappointment to your server’s ideology.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 1 month ago:
Those 2 constituent countries fly under the Union Jack.
Oh fuck off with this ignorance.
The Scottish Greens and The Green Party of England and Wales are not the same and have no official association.
The Scottish Greens officially declared no longer working with GPEW several years ago because of their transphobic stance. They also have different economic outlooks. The Scottish Greens lean towards socialism while the GPEW has a lot of ex Tories.
The Scottish Greens are also pro independence, so do they fuck fly under the Union Jack.
Yes there’s hope now that the GPEW will move more towards a socialist stance but that doesn’t make them the same.
- Comment on Two dead after suspected terror attack on Manchester synagogue, police say, with suspect shot by officers – latest 1 month ago:
GMP said it declared Plato – the national codeword used by police and emergency services when responding to a “marauding terror attack” – at 9.37am.
Anyone know why the name Plato was chosen for that?
- Comment on Britons believe the UK is seen by the rest of the world as ‘weak’ and ‘soft touch’ 1 month ago:
Is that a bad thing?
Do people want to be known as the world bully?
- Comment on Former Member of European Parliament pleads guilty to bribery following Counter Terrorism Policing investigation 1 month ago:
Former leader of Reform in Wales. So not some low rung nobody either
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 month ago:
- Why do we complain of Nature? She has shown herself kindly; life, if you know how to use it, is long. But one man is possessed by an avarice that is insatiable, another by a toilsome devotion to tasks that are useless; one man is besotted with wine, another is paralyzed by sloth; one man is exhausted by an ambition that always hangs upon the decision of others, another, driven on by the greed of the trader, is led over all lands and all seas by the hope of gain; some are tormented by a passion for war and are always either bent upon inflicting danger upon others or concerned about their own; some there are who are worn out by voluntary servitude in a thankless attendance upon the great; many are kept busy either in the pursuit of other men’s fortune or in complaining of their own; many, following no fixed aim, shifting and inconstant and dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course, but Fate takes them unawares while they loll and yawn—so surely does it happen that I cannot doubt the truth of that utterance which the greatest of poets delivered with all the seeming of an oracle: “The part of life we really live is small.”[1] For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. Vices beset us and surround us on every side, and they do not permit us to rise anew and lift up our eyes for the discernment of truth, but they keep us down when once they have overwhelmed us and we are chained to lust. Their victims are never allowed to return to their true selves; if ever they chance to find some release, like the waters of the deep sea which continue to heave even after the storm is past, they are tossed about, and no rest from their lusts abides. Think you that I am speaking of the wretches whose evils are admitted? Look at those whose prosperity men flock to behold; they are smothered by their blessings. To how many are riches a burden! From how many do eloquence and the daily straining to display their powers draw forth blood! How many are pale from constant pleasures! To how many does the throng of clients that crowd about them leave no freedom! In short, run through the list of all these men from the lowest to the highest—this man desires an advocate,[2] this one answers the call, that one is on trial, that one defends him, that one gives sentence; no one asserts his claim to himself, everyone is wasted for the sake of another. Ask about the men whose names are known by heart, and you will see that these are the marks that distinguish them: A cultivates B and B cultivates C; no one is his own master. And then certain men show the most senseless indignation—they complain of the insolence of their superiors, because they were too busy to see them when they wished an audience! But can anyone have the hardihood to complain of the pride of another when he himself has no time to attend to himself? After all, no matter who you are, the great man does sometimes look toward you even if his face is insolent, he does sometimes condescend to listen to your words, he permits you to appear at his side; but you never deign to look upon yourself, to give ear to yourself. There is no reason, therefore, to count anyone in debt for such services, seeing that, when you performed them, you had no wish for another’s company, but could not endure your own.
- Seneca the Younger
en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/…/Chapter_II
I highly encourage everyone to read these letters by Seneca, the Stoic philosopher, at least once in their life. Preferably earlier than later.
- Comment on UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker 1 month ago:
Good. Fuck off big pharma.
- Comment on hyperbaric oxygen chamber 1 month ago:
Also known as a coward.
Time, aging, and death come for us all. We must make peace with that knowledge. This man is incapable of living life, through fear of losing his life.
I’m gonna go play in some dirt now, and eat raspberries straight from the bush. I know which of us will be enjoying our time on this planet more.
- Comment on WACK. 1 month ago:
Ah, I see, you’ve been turning water into wine again. You be careful now, if you drink too much they’ll have you up on that cross again and we all remember how it took you 3 whole days to recover from that hangover
- Comment on WACK. 1 month ago:
I’m not sure if you’re for or against biodiversity with this comment…
The first line seems to contradict the second.
Unless it’s abolish lawns to replace them with tarmac or something?
- Comment on First people charged with supporting Palestine Action plead not guilty 1 month ago:
Dangerous terrorists but being released on unconditional bail?
Me thinks the courts know this is a farce.
- Comment on UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows 1 month ago:
The Grauniad making typos? Never!
- Comment on Charlie Kirk killing invoked to bolster UK’s largest far-right rally in decades 2 months ago:
Hey now, don’t forget the Scots, Irish, and Welsh! Leeching from His Majesty’s Eng’rland so they can buy their heroin, drink, and sheep
- Comment on BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage 2 months ago:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=oBiryX7a8gA&t=1230s
Skip to 20:30 if the time jump doesn’t work.
Comedy has been attacked and gutted from its previous peak as well.
- Comment on Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules 2 months ago:
Scumbags.
In contrast, Scotland just protected huge areas.
bluemarinefoundation.com/scottish-government-safe…
To see the sheer devastation and indiscriminate ecocide that bottom trawling does, watch this Attenborough clip:
