HumanPenguin
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- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 4 days ago:
It’s relevant because in a population of nearly 70 million. 39 thousand people, are in no way shape or form responsible for all the crap these flag waving ultranationalist are claiming.
There is a reason we call them fascists. It is because every argument they make matches the crap spread by every fascist leader in history. Turning to nationalism and groups of other to divide and distract opposition from the real cause of issues. Is exactly what wealth has done to oppress working class votes. Since the forming of democracy.
- Comment on Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour 4 days ago:
Hence why the military. That sort of thing is very within the CRE capability set.
The military has 150k full-time personal. But numbers is not the reason to use military. Skills set is. The UK military is built from professionals with skills to help resolve and organise groups exactly in emergencies like this.
As for standing obligations. Most of that is training and preparing for war or emergencies just like this.
- Comment on Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour 6 days ago:
Wrong. Paying debts allows banks to lend money to companies they would never consider worth the risk. If they did not think the gov was to scared to help.
No truly private company making the choices Thames Water etc al have done. Would have been lent the money they were.
Debt was given by private banks where other companies artificially upping share price while failing to maintain assets. Would be told to fuck off. The banks depended on gov refusing to let the shareholders suffer. And profited from it.
As such those debts value should be the same as any other bankrupt corperation. The assets were never theirs but placed in trust with them as management contractors. That did not manage. And turned to the gov for funding for any expansion. So they had no assets to secure the debt. We should not be supporting stupid banks again.
- Comment on Thames Water tried to make MP pay its legal fees of up to £1,400 an hour 6 days ago:
Fair outcome.
Allow them to go bankrupt with absolutely no help from gov.
Use Millarory stand pipes like in 76 to distribute water to everyone while they vanish as a company.
Then build a new nationalised water system rapidly repairing all assets. Using military to manage and offering well paid work to any unemployed (many of who will be ex water employees) willing and able to take on the job.
Then have government site and stare manically at electrical and gas companies. Asking. " So how do you guys plan to get prices below the world average?"
- Comment on Why the NHS doctors’ strikes look set to continue 1 week ago:
Sorry but rubbish.
Civil service cuts had nothing to do with paying doctors. The 2 events were years apart in announment.
And austerity was very much a government choice. One you are welcome to agree with. But it being the only option was an out right lie. And it funded huge cuts in corperation taxes etc. Not the NHS.
As for above inflation. Only if you totally ignore 14 years of no or below inflation pay rises. Is it in anyway possible to say the last one was above the recent yearly inflation.
- Comment on BBC apologises to Trump over edit but refuses to pay compensation 1 week ago:
Cheers my spelling is crap
- Comment on BBC apologises to Trump over edit but refuses to pay compensation 1 week ago:
Honestly. The gov should force any case to be in UK courts.
Trump and his lawyers have no hope of using judges who owe him their position.
Add to that the UK is (correctly) famouse for having extream liable protections, so most would see it as advantages. It is also very much a fact that truth is a defence, so the fact that multiple US courts etc have supported the claims.
Adding. There is no way trump can stand up in a UK court and fail to commit purgery. He is just incapable. And will piss judges off no end.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 1 week ago:
Yes we can. By opening up safe route into the UK for asylum seekers. Rather then shutting them down and removing huge amounts of funding from HMRC to process such claims in a efficient manor.
Or did you some how think the boats increase during torys 14years. And over stressing in the right wing media was not related to Tory austerity measures.
I assume you ignore the actual numbers of illegal immigration. Vs legal. It’s under 5%. Of all immigration.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 1 week ago:
One or multiple examples where it did not happen. Is in no way an argument against 1000s of years of history, where it has. And a rather stupid argument.
It is illegal to consider the way an asylum seeker enters a nation. As a limitation on there right to claim asylum. That is also part of the Geneva convention.
It is there to stop the right wing actions of multiple Tory govs who intentionally limited access to the UK. In an attempt to end claims. Why did the convention do this after WW2. Because nations supporting Germany attempted the same crap when people ran from nations attacked by the fascists there.
The right wing gov trying to stop the boats is the illegal action. Not the boats.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 1 week ago:
The law should be changed because you have fallen for right wing bull crap.
The law was created in the 1950s with the UK as a major proponent of that law. Yet we have had 0 wars on UK soil since then.
Where as nations bordering wars have had multiple wars expand into their territory as refugees run to escape. Seriously, you seem totally unable to base any of your arguments on facts or logic. But just emotional rubbish pushed by right wing lies and folks fighting for fascism.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 1 week ago:
You are inventing divisions where non existent.
For starters there is absolutely no law or history where war refugees are required to settle in the first safe nation. Much the opposite the Geneva convention makes it illegal to use access or distance to limit the movement of refugees. This is specifically their as forcing nations nearest a war zone to accept refugees would increase the odds of the war spreading into their borders.
As for the difference between EU and refugees. Given the whole Brexit history that is an utterly dumb complaint. It has absolutely no marit in this debate as the flag was specifically used to argue against all type of immigration in recent times.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 1 week ago:
This is a good question.
It changed because the statement people hung the flag for decades is entirely recent history. Anyone over 50 knows it is not the case,
It is true of the union jack. Although since Victorian times not hugely so and often seen as tacky. But the St Georges flag dropped from use before the 1980s.
The reason is pretty clear. From about the mid 1800 most major English political parties have been unionist. It is a part of the Tory party name. But all 3 major parties and most smaller parties in England have been unionist.
We have no major England separation party. Whereas the other 3 nations all have such parties. Calls for England as an independent nation. Have never had a majority following.
As such the flag of England dropped out of use in the mid 1800s. As the main parties were successfully pushing the Union Jack as the main flag for England. In an attempt to diminish the separation parties of other nations. And no vocal group in the nation of England was opposing the lose.
As such when the National Front. Then BNP etc etc started to use the St Georges flag as a call to remove all non white from the UK. Opposition was very much directed at the ideals. Not the use of a flag few felt a link to.
- Comment on BBC to review 'Bias' in Climate Change reporting 1 week ago:
You realise this in no way argues against the bias argument right.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 1 week ago:
Exactly what I said. Oppose the use of the flag as a intent to scare immigrants.
While making reasoned and rational arguments for and against different immigration policies.
Of course the above is as unbiased as it can be.
But as someone with more left of centre ideals.
It’s not complex. As a nation we have always depended on immigration. Angle Celts and Jutes immigrated to this nation before the flooding of dogger bank some 12k years ago. Much as in the rest of the world. Excluding the plains of Kenya. No human is entirely native to any one nation. Mixing of cultures and people has always advantages the human race.
But the right wing is very much being intentional in their use of other to distract the people. It is a key goal of fasism.
The rights use of the flag as an element of fear. Is both intentional and a long known core element of fascist ideology.( Ultra nationalism and the selectionof a enemy class. ). intended to control opposition to the elite.
Absolutely nothing the right claim as an issue to the UK is the fault or responsibility of immigration.
While all the issues that drive people to accept such claims. Are the result of intentional reductions in rights and equality lead by 50 plus years of right of centre governments.
As bad as godwins law can be. Their is a reason so many of the rights actions match 1930 Germany.
- Comment on Was thinking of getting into 3d printing, doesn't this listing seem too good to be true? 1 week ago:
Solid advice above. 3d printing on these things is a huge issue initially. Set up etc is very fiddly. And this is with a new set up with everything documented by the manufacturer. As soon as you start playing with the mess others have made dealing with the same issues. More so after having dismantled and moved a set up to sell.
Really not a fun task for a first timer.
Once you have done it once and understand the issues involved and just how minor errors can mess with plate adhesive and other issues. It would be a fine purchase. But not that cheap. 1/2 price of a newer model seems normal.
But it is also worth remembering. While these printers are very upgradeable. The tech is changing fast. And this is the price range where an older printer is likely to have changed the most compared to newer models.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 1 week ago:
Then stand up and opposed it being used as an anti immigration symbol. Because after the BNP copted it. Any org using it as a sign opposing immigration. Is very clearly an obviously attempting to use that history to scare. Not as a sign patriot ideals.
- Comment on BBC to review 'Bias' in Climate Change reporting 1 week ago:
They have been under attack from the right since 2010. Well long before, but 2010 on the Tories were successful at embedding biased leadership.
But. The panarama editing thing was wrong on their part. And unnecessary to make their point.
The current attracks from all angles is hardly a suprise when the BBC itself opens itself for such calls of bias.
The delay in the attack is the only strange issues.
- Comment on BBC to review 'Bias' in Climate Change reporting 1 week ago:
Facts don’t have bias.
Those who deny science without both reviewed data, from multiple sources and an alternative hypothesis. Are not expressing bias. They are lieing.
- Comment on Crime network behind UK mini-marts is enabling migrants to work illegally 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. But the term “Crime Network” is clearly designed to indicate some form of organised crime.
Invoking / reinforcing fear . When the translation is. Imagrant owned and Family run stores are more likely to offer a helping hand to people going through difficulties.
And just like British families and community friends will often offer underhand assistance to benefit claiments and struggling relatives and friends in their community.
But when folks that look different do it. It’s organised crime.
- Comment on ‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’ 2 weeks ago:
Also one of the least complicated to fix.
If WE spend our time only wanting the gov to spend time on major issues. The billionaires will run circles around us forcing nothing to improve.
The government is not a single task queue. It can address multiple issues and must.
- Comment on ‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners 4 weeks ago:
Def should be that simple.
Unfortunately, over the last 2 decades. We have seen a huge effort from the right wing. To remove that limitation. Mainly funded from the same billionaires that fund such crap in the US where such rules do not exist.
The left needs to work hard to ensure these challenges are both identified and publicised for what they are. An attempt tp licence lieing to the public.
- Comment on William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes 4 weeks ago:
So they honestly think that is a threat.
Such an announcement would be marginally less pleasing. Then Thames waters creditors going bankrupt.
- Comment on We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation 4 weeks ago:
Unlike the US. Where its written constitution prevents trump from… eh
Having carte blanche to toxify their nation?
- Comment on British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK 5 weeks ago:
Not the same people.
This article is a legal opinion. Not a government one. The gov has not admitted that a genocide is happening. Risk of one is still the closest they have gotten.
The current UK gov is consistent in their arsehollery if nothing else.
- Comment on Parents and students fight against anti-racist book banning 5 weeks ago:
Fucking disgusting that racist little shits like this. Feel comfortable expressing such opinions around schools.
Unfortunately it’s seems these arseholes are being encouraged by government actions. Dispite the vase majority of covers and polling being opposed to their ideals.
Shows how fucking dangerous FPTP can be when 30% plus is all that is needed to rule. Division becomes a political strategy rather then a risk.
- Comment on Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro? 1 month ago:
That assumes they had no costs in producing or acquiring the not fit for purpose goods. And that they knew the goods were unfit.
A fraud case would be more about proving they knew the goods would not be fit for purpose. Failing to pay back money when if they did not know. Is just breach of contract.
Proving there knowledge before the event. And the cost of providing the goods. Or the companies wealth to payback the costs of operation while obtaining and shipping the goods. Are all extremely complex to do.
- Comment on Here's what would happen if the UK abolished landlords overnight 1 month ago:
Or beat them at their own game
This is basically the green proposal.
Massive social housing build. With 2x taxation (council tax I assume) for empty houses.
Idea being landlord are either forced to rent at reducing prices. Or sell the property at reducing prices. Rather then hold on and force a housing shortage while the gov tries to build housing.
- Comment on 'We're the future, don't wait around for Corbyn and Sultana': Inside the Green Party conference 1 month ago:
Agreed. But unfortunately the only way we will win. Is to work with the lefts desire to split. It is why we need PR. Because the Right sure as hell will use the splitting against us.
But the only way we will get it. Is to accept our weakness and work around it. Green and Your Party have both indicated a willingness to work together in the past. It is down to members to vote to ensure we do. Ours splits are a good thing for democracy. Having a group of parties willing to debate and argue in parliament But still work together to prevent the right taking over. (IE confidence and supply agreement) Is the closest thing FPTP allows to a 50% plus control over the election process.
Adding support for PR changes to the agreement would likely help win support. Not to mention being just a fucking good idea.
- Comment on 'We're the future, don't wait around for Corbyn and Sultana': Inside the Green Party conference 1 month ago:
Given Greens polling still hovers around 11%. Even with the parties increase in membership. (About 20k)
He really needs to show some real data. Before claiming a new party is not needed.
If he can get votes good for him. But trying to harm other left wing parties when he is still failing to inspire voters. Seems desperate to say the least.
Honestly. Massive and well planned unification of left wing parties. Is the only hope in 2029. The left as a whole is far to divided. The parties agreeing not to compete in areas where an existing left of centre party it the best chance of beating the right wing. And agreeing to a clear confidence and supply agreement in parliament supporting the Left party with the most seats.
This is the only hope ATM of the left opposing reforms/tory control of media and billionaires funding.
- Comment on We need a new commission on the future of multicultural Britain 1 month ago:
We need a government publisising the value of immigration and multiculturalism.
Unfortunately we do not have one. And even if the current one changed it’s views. Without addressing the cost of living crisis. And it’s cause, recent increases in inequality of wealth/asset distribution. No one will listen.
More so then any time in recent post WW2 history. The very wealthy <1%. Own a higher % of UK (and world) wealth then both governments and the 99+% of society.
This means they compete for all resources while the rest are unable to. While the gov refuses to accept let alone address that inequality. The 1% will continue to find huge divisionary properganda by funding misleading politicians, media and social Media. To prevent the 99% concentrating on their wealth growth.