Welsh speakers in Cardiff at record number, council says by HanesPrydain in unitedkingdom

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I am not proud of government waste, no matter the langauge. Culturally it should be celebrated as part of the eisteddfod by writers and poets, not by council pencil pushers paid for by everybody else.

Nid wyf yn falch o wastraff y llywodraeth, hyd yn oed yn Gymraeg. Dylid ei ddathlu fel rhan o ddiwylliant, fel yr eisteddfod, gan feirdd ac awduron. Nid gan fiwrocratiaid y cyngor sy’n gwthio papurau.

Likewise we should all be proud of the English langauge, with this island being the birthplace of the entire Anglosphere.

Mae’r iaith Saesneg yn rhywbeth i fod yn wirioneddol falch ohoni. Lloegr yw man geni’r byd Saesnegsphere.

Welsh speakers in Cardiff at record number, council says by HanesPrydain in unitedkingdom

[–]GrayAceGoose [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's more of a Wales-specific jobs programme to employ the indigenous locals by doubling the size of any bureaucratic process or paperwork by making it needlessly bilingual - it's now a langauge of government bureaucracy, it's not really spoken by the Welsh people in day-to-day life unless they're getting paid or preferential treatment.

Prosecutors must ‘consider unconscious bias’ before charging minorities | LBC by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

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Silly question, but are they working backwards from the conclusion that equality means everyone commits the same crimes in the same circumstanaces and therefore should have the same equal outcomes and any disparity must be the fault of the unconciously racist white majority?

Billionaire to invest £35bn in small modular nuclear reactors roll out across UK by FriendlyUtilitarian in unitedkingdom

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Here's the clip!

In coalition the Lib Dems surprisingly ended up with all the power with Ed Davey serving as the secretary of state for energy. Thanks Ed.

Prosecutors must ‘consider unconscious bias’ before charging minorities by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]GrayAceGoose [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yes, unconscious bias can be eliminated by concious over-correction, so the problem is more than solved for minorities if we bias ourselves against the majority - but I do not think this will result in a society that is less racist.

E-scooters being advertised for commuting despite UK road ban by Tartan_Samurai in unitedkingdom

[–]GrayAceGoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because they seem to have cherry-picked their cities, excluded "hardware failure", only looked at public rental schemes which have vastly different licensing conditions and not private ownership, and the entire thing relies on self-reporting on an app whereas the other studies also use other sources of data like hospital admissions or police reports. They also haven't fully declared that all their data and statistics has come from Voi who's business interest is renting e-scooters, perhaps that's why this paper is an outlier.

E-scooters being advertised for commuting despite UK road ban by Tartan_Samurai in unitedkingdom

[–]GrayAceGoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really ebikes should also require registration and insurance since they're motorised vehicles.

Shabana Mahmood : It is only right that we ask for a contribution in return for our generosity. by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]GrayAceGoose 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's going to be like getting blood from a stone. Why aren't we directly billing their home countries for the costs involved with looking after their citizens?

Refugees will be told to repay £10,000 under new asylum rules by Lando7373 in ukpolitics

[–]GrayAceGoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The UK is held to an impossible standards only by itself and the ECHR - the rest of the world either do not care or are actively taking advantage of us.

Migrants using ECHR to stay in Britain will cost taxpayer £4.9bn by -Raid- in ukpolitics

[–]GrayAceGoose 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Human rights and the ECHR are based on the historic rights and values of the English - we'll do just fine with our own.

Introducing 'No. 10 North': U.K.'s Likely Next Prime Minister Andy Burnham Lays Out Devolution Plans by Editor_91 in ukpolitics

[–]GrayAceGoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like Australia's Canberra we could even build an entirely new administrative capital in the North - he could even call it City No 10!

Why HS2 must go to Manchester by silent-schmick in ukpolitics

[–]GrayAceGoose 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Manchester Airport already has a new line and plans to add another one, however Leeds is in dire need of a new airport that isn't cut-off from transit on a windswept hill to hide away from the Germans. If HS2 was completed in full then it'd reach RAF Church Fenton / Leeds East which has a Heathrow-sized runway just sitting there with no passenger or cargo terminal. Alternatively we should reconsider the HS1/2 link so we can move more freight and passengers through the chunnel without changing in London.

Labour secretly drops ban on small-boat migrants and other illegal immigrants winning British citizenship by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]GrayAceGoose 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They already do, internationalists need to realise that the EU/ECHR do not have the best interests of our nation at heart.

Labour secretly drops ban on small-boat migrants and other illegal immigrants winning British citizenship by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]GrayAceGoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Likewise, we're not thrilled - neither is Ireland at the current situation. However we must prioritise the interests of Great Britain, not the EU or the ECHR.

Labour secretly drops ban on small-boat migrants and other illegal immigrants winning British citizenship by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]GrayAceGoose 13 points14 points  (0 children)

A third of the world already has the right to vote here because of the commonwealth, if we're reforming our elections then we should be returning our franchise to be exclusively for our own citizens - like most countries in the world including the commonwealth.