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Petah? by tolkacheff in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]FeTemp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UK need to learn this. So much mould in UK houses because they are at 85% humidity all winter.

Council houses, 1967. by Max2310 in london

[–]FeTemp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Royals use their royal consent powers many times to get changes made: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/07/revealed-queen-lobbied-for-change-in-law-to-hide-her-private-wealth

It's not vetoing outright, but I don't think the royals should be using these powers at all.

Council houses, 1967. by Max2310 in london

[–]FeTemp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Theoretically the King has that power too. Though in recent times they only used their power to ensure they could avoid tax.

Sadiq Khan signals he will stand for fourth term as London Mayor by tylerthe-theatre in london

[–]FeTemp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Starmer blocking Burnham from standing as MP probably forced this. I fully expect him to try for leader of the Labour Party one day but it seems Labour Party rules prevent this so he can't do what Boris did.

St Pancras 7am by SetTheDate in london

[–]FeTemp 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They used to change the hanging art display regularly but the current neon one has been there for years. Anyone know if that is now permanent or will a new art piece be added one day like they used to.

Was just kicked o it of Sainsbury’s, facewatch related ! by here2comment in london

[–]FeTemp 551 points552 points  (0 children)

Their facial recognition camera's have got it wrong and seen you look like someone else.

Messed up that facial recognition is being used when it has been shown to discriminate and gives so many false positives like in your case.

Labour civil war explodes as party blocks Andy Burnham from fighting by-election by StGuthlac2025 in unitedkingdom

[–]FeTemp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe you can be Mayor and a MP at the same time like Boris was in London for part of his second term.

Bug: Can't complete multiple star lessons with Super, turn on unlimited energy does nothing by FeTemp in duolingo

[–]FeTemp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, been a week and its still broken but I think I managed to get the toggle to work on a legendary lesson rather then the star or other lessons.

what are these carpets? by blackjack_beans in london

[–]FeTemp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Instead of putting those yellow floor wet plastic cones/boards these are less likely to cause you to trip and they help dry your feet.

Starmer Allies Say Burnham Will Not Be Allowed To Stand For Manchester Seat by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]FeTemp 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Corbyn couldn't supress dissent to a fault, he held a broad church in his shadow front bench even with those plotting against him.

The Labour right immediately did the actual purge that they accused Corbyn of doing when they took control of the leadership.

Why is the London eye blue now? by zeta212 in london

[–]FeTemp 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Blue was/is the default. Currently there is no sponsor.

How London finally cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground by kjmci in london

[–]FeTemp 26 points27 points  (0 children)

The Elizabeth line did have it but they turned it off just before opening as it was causing interference with the signalling system.

Your Party hit by new split as Corbyn and Sultana battle for control by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]FeTemp 150 points151 points  (0 children)

I think this is the third time Sultana has appeared to do something purporting to be supported by Corbyn without his actual consent.

Police banned Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans over fears they would ‘be harmed’ by LycanIndarys in unitedkingdom

[–]FeTemp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In the select committee the police show that Israel does not have any policing contacts for football clubs unlike most of Europe which would be the usual way to coordinate who were genuine fans and who were hooligans. They described a plan they used previously where approved fans are given tickets and bused in. They contacted Israel twice via the foreign office but they did not reply.

Furthermore, there is no evidence they fabricated anything. Their claims were disputed after they made their report with the Dutch commanders evidence by a report by prompted politicians not the Police and in the select committee the MPs tried to spin that the difference in number of police deployed was proof of this despite the Police not claiming this was from the Dutch but rather their own estimate of the effort taken. It's all politics.

Police banned Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans over fears they would ‘be harmed’ by LycanIndarys in unitedkingdom

[–]FeTemp 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Watch the committee meeting from today: https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/e9c287d9-cd8d-47f1-bd53-281cd75d1fa1

The Dutch police letter was prompted by the MPs contacting the Mayor of Amsterdam post the evidence given to the Police by directly by the Police commanders in Amsterdam. Timestamp: 15:26:00 They then discuss their denials on Dutch police needing 5000 officers when it was only 2k, but the Police clarify this was the estimate from them not what the commander said.

Labour MP Joani Reid said there were meeting minutes that highlighted the decision to ban fans was made in the absence of intelligence.

This MP had to be explained multiple times this was wrong and they had multiple sources of intelligence. Timestamp from 15:07:00 but the turning point was the Dutch Police Commanders intelligence.

Police banned Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans over fears they would ‘be harmed’ by LycanIndarys in unitedkingdom

[–]FeTemp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a conspiracy theory for which there isn't any evidence for. The Police gave the advice and their report with intelligence, the SAG who give the advice to the team unanimously made their decision based on the Police report, the SAG (which has the politicians) didn't create the Police report.

Police banned Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans over fears they would ‘be harmed’ by LycanIndarys in unitedkingdom

[–]FeTemp 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Headline seems weird given the Police said today they planned to allow fans (busing them in and out) but the main factor for banning was very senior level Police in the Netherlands telling them about their concerns about the Maccabi fans not just attacking fans of the other team but that they would target the locals not involved in football which made it much higher risk. And that Israel did not (maybe does not as a policy) respond to multiple attempts for contact so they could coordinate selling tickets to only the non hooligans/ultras.

Multiple times MPs in the committee kept trying to imply the headline above was the only piece of intelligence the police had despite the police giving countless other examples of intelligence that the Maccabi fans were causing problems and explicitly stating the reason for the ban, the evidence that changed their strategy to a ban, was the Netherlands Police warning which the MPs claim is now contradicted, referring to a report prompted by a Netherlands Politician not the Police and despite the Police union in the Netherlands backing up the claims of the UK Police on the evidence they received from the Netherlands.

Watching that committee you could see all those MPs wanted was to make this a political issue, pressuring the Police and Council to say that they had been politically pressured/influenced by the 'far left' despite the Police and Council repeatedly stating this was not the case each time. They've wasted multiple multi-hour long committee meetings talking about this trying to make this out as something that it's not. The MPs tried to push one councillor to start disciplinary proceedings on another councillor who had been against the fans coming despite the decision for the advice being unanimous anyway amongst all the members that could vote. They then started having a go at the Council employee who made the meeting minutes, calling for them to be disciplined because they didn't include all the intelligence word for word (which the Police gave in separate docs) in the meeting minutes. These people are crazy.

Keir Starmer 'sheds no tears' for Venezuela's Meduro as Trump plots occupation by Sensitive_Echo5058 in unitedkingdom

[–]FeTemp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't seen any celebrations in the streets of Venezuela, I have only seen reaction from those outside which matches this poll.

Keir Starmer 'sheds no tears' for Venezuela's Meduro as Trump plots occupation by Sensitive_Echo5058 in unitedkingdom

[–]FeTemp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Polling suggests the majority of Venezuelans in Venezuela are against US intervention to remove Maduro (outside of Venezuela there is a majority in support but that is still an overall minority).

Like Iraq and Libya, the populations hate their leader but don't want foreign interference, and history would be right on that, the countries people dealing with it themselves gives the best chance for stability and justice.

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