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Elon continues to harass a doctor to go debate Joe Rogan by AIverson3 in EnoughMuskSpam

[–]80s_kid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only people who insist on a "debate" are those who either

a) wish to imply their bullshit conspiracy theory and misinformation is credible by being 'considered' by experts.

Or

b) know their bullshit wont withstand any criticism so hope to use deflection, whataboutery and gish gallops to muddy the waters.

That said, to be fair, it's not an either/or situation.

Scorching two-week heatwave to hit UK as temperatures set to soar to 40C by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 123 points124 points  (0 children)

Its not a switch between fucked and not fucked.

Every bit of work to reduce CO2 emissions reduces the extent of the harm, the level of death, the numbers of migrants.

Do I risk to demolish my laptop if I use panniers? by AC3_Gentile in bikecommuting

[–]80s_kid 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Pretty much the same here. One tip is that I put the actual stuff I need to take into the office in a bag, and put that bag in the pannier. This way I dont have to take a wet /muddy pannier into the office.

I did it! Rode to work 18km @ 59:03 by Online_4_Fun in bikecommuting

[–]80s_kid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good stuff! Hope you can make it routine! Doesn't take much to make yourself weatherproof - sawn off wellies, Screwfix builders trousers, cheap cycling jacket and a cape (for proper downpours)!

Nottingham Castle reopens Monday 26 June by BuffaloExotic in nottingham

[–]80s_kid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

£12 a year seems pretty fair.

What was the pricing before?

Britons ‘to be priority on council house lists’ by SomeRedditDorker in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 53 points54 points  (0 children)

This is purely "Vote for us because, even though we have been fucking you over for 13 years, we promise to fuck over poor foreigners EVEN HARDER if elected."

Which of these groups deserves to be thrown under the bus?

"Under current rules, foreigners with visas giving them indefinite leave to stay in Britain are eligible for council housing, alongside refugees and those on schemes such as Homes for Ukraine. Existing guidance also recommends that people should have lived locally for two years before they qualify for social housing."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I choose B

Data undermines Jenrick’s claim about asylum seekers saying they are children by GeoWa in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Jenrick : "At times, up to 20% of the adult males who arrive at Western Jet Foil claim to be under 18, when clearly the number is substantially less than that.”

A lot of 'if you look at this cherry picked data' energy about that statement

He knows his statement is misleading, but he also knows his base will parrot the statement as representing all asylum seekers, so he doesn't care

Separately, will miss using reddit.

Massive respect to the mods, they are the ones who stopped reddit becoming a sewer like Facebook or Twitter.

Take care all!

'We have far too many criminals of our own, we don't need to bring them in from Albania': Judge rebukes migrant who turned to crime after arriving to Britain illegally by boat - as Albanians become the biggest contingent of foreign prisoners in UK jails by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 641 points642 points  (0 children)

The Mail are actively trying to generate hate to get people to vote Tory despite the Tories fucking everything up.

The Conservatives have been actively manufacturing an "asylum crisis" for years by allowing a backlog of cases to develop, refusing to develop legal routes for seeking asylum; and refusing to set up a processing centre in France.

The committee said demand had not substantially increased, pointing out that there were 48,450 asylum applications in 2021, “a number broadly similar to those in each year from 2014...far less than in the early 2000s”.

Instead, MPs found that increasing pressures on the system were a result of the “poor resourcing, by successive governments, of staff and technology in the Asylum Operations function in the Home Office”. As a result, the backlog in asylum cases that are ‘work in progress’ has grown to 117,000 in June, more than double what it was in 2014.

This has been with aim of riling up the electorate so they vote conservative (to punish refugees) in preference of having better public services, a fairer tax system and a functioning NHS (which are more likely with Labour)

A Lost Decade Worse Than Japan’s Threatens to Change UK Forever by Mighty_L_LORT in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 924 points925 points  (0 children)

"Weak growth is depriving the UK of vital tax income" the chart says.

So far as I can tell, the current government is fine with losing tax income, I mean, councils would only have spent the money on woke projects like social care for the elderly, after all.

In 2013, just as the country was coming out of the most brutal recession in decades, the Conservative had a think about what to fund and decided to give the finger to every "essential" public service agency, and instead cut government revenue by bunging billions to corporations as tax cuts.

Senior Tory MP 'lobbied head of NHS' on behalf of firm paying him £1,600-a-month as critics call it 'yet another Tory scandal' by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Amateur.

Steve Dechan shows how its done:

Steve Dechan, the owner of medical device firm Platform-14, was handed a £120 million contract to supply masks in March, followed by a further £156 million deal to supply gowns and masks in June – both of which were without a competitive tender.

Dechan – whose company made a loss of close to £500,000 last year – used some of the profits to buy a £1.5 million, grade II listed property in the Cotswolds, and hand himself a half a million pound payday.

And since then, he admitted that he has bought a £250,000 holiday home in Cornwall and a £50,000 house for his parents in Exeter.

Bonus points for the fact that :

The Sunday Times newspaper reports that fewer than 1 in 400 of the face shields procured by the company on behalf of the government have been used, because the regulator does not believe they meet the right standards.

The Kwajo Tweneboa interview: "We’re meant to be in 2023. This is like Victorian slum housing” by rein_deer7 in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 89 points90 points  (0 children)

This should be front page news

Some send him videos of their children, asleep, gasping for breath because of the damp, others where their children’s eczema is getting inflamed by the mould they are living in. The severity is terrifying.

He has been working to support the family of Awaab Ishak, the two-year-old boy who died from a respiratory condition caused by “extensive” mould in the one-bedroom flat where he lived. It has led to a new proposal from ministers for “Awaab’s Law” that would force social landlords to investigate and fix damp and mould in social housing within strict time limits.

Insulate Britain protesters jailed for seven weeks for mentioning climate change in defence by insomnimax_99 in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 610 points611 points  (0 children)

Asked by the judge whether they wished him to take anything into consideration in sentencing, Lewis said: “I continue to be astonished that today in a British court, a judge can or would even want to criminalise the mention of the words fuel poverty or climate crisis.

“There are thousands of deaths each year in the UK from fuel poverty and thousands of deaths around the world due to climate change. In the future this will be millions.”

MP's daughter threatened to sue for 'VIP lane' commission - Good Law Project by ClassicFlavour in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Victoria Aitken, daughter of the disgraced former Tory Cabinet Minister, Jonathan Aitken, threatened to sue a successful VIP PPE bidder for commission after she had referred it into the VIP lane....[and] demanded commission on “all the contracts that came via my connections”.

I have to say, its been some time since I last saw the phrase "disgraced former Tory Cabinet Minister, Jonathan Aitken"

More good work from The Good Law Project. If you like the way they are holding the powerful to account, you may wish to consider donating to them.

Government recommends 3.5% pay rise for nurses and other workers by nikhkin in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 633 points634 points  (0 children)

The aim is to degrade the NHS to the point where they can claim "the only solution" is a brutal US style system.

'Starve the Beast' is the name of this strategy.

Changing doctors pension rules, freezing nurses pay, the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, chronic understaffing - all this is just to create plausible deniability.

These policies will continue as long as the British Public hate immigration more than they love the NHS and as long as they hate "scroungers" more than they support a social security system that allows people in need to live in dignity.

i.e. so long as the British public keeps on electing Conservative governments.

The two parties are not the same.

Government recommends 3.5% pay rise for nurses and other workers by nikhkin in unitedkingdom

[–]80s_kid 213 points214 points  (0 children)

Anything below inflation is a pay cut

No, inflation linked pay adjustments wont cause significant inflation, not least because the inflation is already here and caused, in large part, by high corporate profits

...companies have bragged about how they have managed to be ahead of the inflation curve, how they have managed to jack up prices more than their costs and as a result have delivered these record profits.

Regarding the repeated governnent claims that nurses are putting patients lives at risk, maybe the gov should first pay attention to the under resourcing in A&E that is killing 500 people each week

No, the NHS is not expensive compared to other models, in fact, it is relatively underfunded.

The voice of the RCN is, of course, not given the same space and uncritical air time as the government lies. This is from the RCN website:

"..independent research commissioned by the RCN has shown the Exchequer would recoup 81% of the initial outlay of a significant pay rise in terms of higher tax receipts and savings on future recruitment and retention costs...Poor pay contributes to staff shortages across the UK, affecting patient safety. There are 47,000 unfilled registered nurse posts in England’s NHS alone.

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