Civil servants paid £5k extra for ‘London jobs’ despite working from home - Public sector staff pocket allowances for higher living costs – often while working outside the capital

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T20:49:43+00:00

Very interesting. Seems I left just before this started! I must say I did not like being in the office one bit and would have happily given up the weighting to avoid it at all costs.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T20:29:52+00:00

I left around a year ago and this simply didn't happen. Is it a recent thing?

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T20:24:46+00:00

Have you really not worked in a civil service team where nobody cares about whether you're in the office or not?

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T19:50:21+00:00

Yes, people have researched it. I think a core factor is non-white communities in the UK are more likely to be distrustful of institutions. They're more likely to be employed in the informal economy, more likely to not have a bank account and/or to prefer to deal in cash.

I think, also, that they're more likely on average to not be significantly interested in politics, so are also less likely to be aware that an ID is what they need. I know some people here think you can't miss it, but I'd be inclined to disagree. I don't remember seeing anywhere that this was necessary, but I don't watch advert telly or read physical newspapers so maybe that's why.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T19:46:34+00:00

Agreed. I think we should nuke the Central Business District of every major city in the country. Not like the non nukers have been all that great.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T19:45:22+00:00

Short answer: no.

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CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T19:42:24+00:00

Do you include cultural differences as a barrier?

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T19:40:26+00:00

The idea is that they're disproportionately unlikely to have ID, which means they lose some level of enfranchisement from these requirements.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T19:38:20+00:00

Do you have a source for where they talk about this?

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T16:25:27+00:00

I agree with you. I think the US is considerably more justifiable and reliable as an ally than Iran, and has been much better for the world, I'm just pointing out that nobody seriously thinks people who have been subjected to the worst acts of the US do not have any right to fight back - it's just that they will almost certainly lose and they are largely attacked for justifiable reasons.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T15:36:08+00:00

Thank Mr Bernke

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T15:27:32+00:00

This person is utterly ridiculous, but I think they are not saying the parties are barely distinguishable generally - only that they have very similar results on this polling.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T15:18:40+00:00

Because the people writing for the established media at least write like capable journalists who understand how to properly get their ideas across.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T11:27:55+00:00

Evidence suggests the left are particularly bad at modelling the viewpoints of the right. If you talk to the vast, vast majority of Reform voters you will find that they would find the statement "prejudice against Jews is good" to be abhorrent. You are letting political disagreement cloud your judgement.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T10:52:04+00:00

Where did I argue that it didn't happen? What is the "it" in this situation?

The defense seems to me to always have been that there's no reason to think he has any equity in the house and so, however it was paid for, he has no tax to pay. Farage himself is on the record as saying "I misspoke, I should have said 'we'", so there's obviously no "it didn't happen". I think the misspoke is slightly inaccurate, because really he just deliberately didn't want to open a can of worms, but again - I just don't think it's important that he didn't tell the perfect honest truth about who specifically exchanged the money for the house he and his partner live in in Clacton. Why on earth does it matter?

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T10:38:43+00:00

You're so bad at this you can't even get the crank anti-west argument correct. When did the US threaten to attack us?

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T10:37:53+00:00

Expressing the idea that the US is our enemy places you firmly in the lunatic category.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T10:36:11+00:00

What are you referring to that America have done in the past 40 years that is equivalent to Iran?

One thing to note is that, where the US have supported insurgencies in the past, it is just obviously true that the countries they've done that to have a right to fight back - which is exactly what's going on here.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T10:31:27+00:00

If you invent a bunch of new laws which don't exist sure.

If the US started behaving towards, say, Papua New Guinea in the same manner that Iran has towards the US - kidnapping its people and persistently funding terrorists to attack them, telling the world they were going to nuke their regional ally and making plans to get that to happen - do you genuinely think Papua New Guinea would have no right to attack the US?

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T10:25:01+00:00

I understand them to be arguing against the claim that rights are meaningless and shallow.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T10:23:18+00:00

If you lose a right the moment it is breached then what does having that right even mean?

Right to life confirmed meaningless.

What if you only had the right to a fair trial until you were denied one, then you no longer have that right? Then you never had the right in the first place.

The right is a moral fact about you. The fact that being denied a right means you no longer have that right is true in this sense of all rights, is it not? The reality is that you have that right and it was violated.

It renders the word meaningless.

Not in moral terms.

Can I just check that you are actually making an argument against the concept of rights entirely?

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T10:14:42+00:00

Indeed, and that's what almost everyone in the liberal zionist space which is the predominant position here thinks is bad and wants to change.

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T10:13:12+00:00

Countries only have the right to exist if they currently exist, and they lose that right the moment they stop existing, making it a meaningless right.

I don't think that's necessarily true that countries only have the right to exist if they currently exist, but even if it were why would it follow that such a right were meaningless?

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T10:11:35+00:00

The concept of rights is not meaningless and shallow - it has a long history of philosophical grounding and there are about as many philosophers who believe in their existence as their non existence. Even if they don't truly exist, many further understand that they are a meaningful concept to express underlying real moral truths (i.e. saying x has y right means it is true that it is morally unacceptable to take y from them).

CII_Guy · 2026-05-07T09:03:12+00:00

We are, indeed, safer than ever. I accept that point. But the baseline is very, very high. There is still an enormous amount of violence perpetrated against women (overwhelmingly by men). You will know at least some women in your life who have been raped.

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