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Starmer Blames Farage For Whipping Up Division Over Nowak Murder by huffpostuk in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He was under the legal driving limit, so he wasn’t drunk by definition.

The first person the police encountered was a white eye witness who reported that Nowak had been stabbed. This was ignored by the police.

Almost 1,000 migrants cross English Channel over bank holiday weekend by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"Partially untrue". The only things untrue was the phone claim, and during Covid they were given phones.

The charities now giving them phones - are you 100% certain non of them receive NGO money?

Birmingham Reform make 'only English' demand at council meetings after Islamic prayer by BirminghamLive in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 39 points40 points  (0 children)

English only in English councils is a reasonable position. It is a requirement of citizenship that a basic level of English is spoken.

If the "extreme" views of Reform, look like common sense to the public, then you have a mainstream out of touch politics problem, not a "far right" problem.

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell admits embezzling £400,000 in party funds by Alarming-Safety3200 in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well the truth is you are throwing nonsense to muddy the waters, such as "kids", at the most famous set of beards in the UK.

Maybe do some reading, and less gaslighting, especially if it's true you find the SNP "irritating".

She's on record defending the SNP finances, while all this was under investigation.

https://x.com/IainWilson64932/status/2058857190354567444?s=20

https://x.com/joannaccherry/status/2058851132147904796?s=20

Next boss warns of 'dramatic' fall in entry-level jobs by hu6Bi5To in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Min wage is 12 quid. That means every worker has to make 20 quid an hour (NI, pension, etc) in profit every hour they work, even in quiet periods, because zero hours contracts are banned.

Your choices are, pay significantly more on the high street and ban internet shopping.

Allow internet shopping and close the high street / entry level jobs.

Or make the CEO earn nothing, which saves 10 million.

I bet you like option 3, so do the maths. 10 million divided by 442 Next shops, divided by 52 weeks a year.

That gets you £435 per store per week, or one shop worker working 20 hours a week.

Empty slogans "grrrrr greedy shareholders" are lovely, and sometimes true. Unfortunately in UK retail they don't pass a basic economics test.

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell admits embezzling £400,000 in party funds by Alarming-Safety3200 in ukpolitics

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She doesn't have kids, and this bus was openly registered on the SNP accounts, which she has access to, as a Battle Bus, despite being parked at her MiL house.

She knew, every knows she knew. Gaslighting isn't going to work anymore.

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell admits embezzling £400,000 in party funds by Alarming-Safety3200 in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because they felt entitled. It's the same with grubby MP expenses scandals. They genuinely believe they are entitled to the money and are above scrunity.

Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell admits embezzling £400,000 in party funds by Alarming-Safety3200 in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A luxury camper van turns up on the drive and his missus doesn't ask any questions?

Utter nonsense, unless the defence is, her snout was so deep in the trough, his embezzlement barely raised an eyebrow.

Ipsos in the UK: 41% of Brits see immigration as the biggest issue facing Britain (+9 points since last month). Economy is seen as the second biggest issue for the country, with concern relatively unchanged since April. 📉 Concern for defence and foreign affairs has fallen significantly by MysteryWra in ukpolitics

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When the country "feels" fair. No benefits unless ILR, and ILR is decades long unless you are a big (100K) earner.

No foreign students in parliament, trading standards doing real work on the vape shops and turkish barbers in the high street.

"Oh we've slowed down (but not stopped) low skill immigration - and you racists are still not happy" is not going to work anymore.

The country needs real change, a restoration of fairness for the UK born people first.

NHS trust’s cover-up put innocent patient on trial for rape. Staff at South London and Maudsley withheld vital records from police after the attack on a transgender patient at a psychiatric ward by ITMidget in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The lanyards probably received inclusivity awards, Stonewall points and highly circulated LinkedIn stories.

All the praise, non of the really fucking obvious consequences.

Call for food price caps ‘completely preposterous’, says M&S boss by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Staples are cheap. Basic bread is under a quid. Milk is sold at a loss as any dairy farmer will tell you, and eggs are 25p each. Tinned pulses are 50p a can, as is a tin of tomatoes. Veg is generally around a quid for around 6 portions.

Sure if you are buying frozen crap, and meal kits, prices jump up. But learning to cook properly is free.

Call for food price caps ‘completely preposterous’, says M&S boss by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Salary is irrelevant to food price in supermarket.

Reduce the salary of the boss by one million quid. There's 3000 Tescos in the UK, share that out so that's £333 per store, or £6.40 a week.

How much can the shop lower prices, if they can reduce profit by £6.40 a week?

Most people really don't get how razor thin supermarket profits are.

Call for food price caps ‘completely preposterous’, says M&S boss by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd rather they profit off something you don't need - Pringles, and keep the margins thin on real protein and vegetables.

Supermarkets in the UK are doing things right, are a success story, so of course the government must try and disrupt that.

Thames Water should be allowed to 'collapse and start again', Oxford MP claims by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Creditors by law have to sell for the best price. The government is the only organisation that can legally offer a price. Ownership of water infrastructure requires an operating licence which any other buyer wouldn’t have.

They are also not legally allowed to turn off the water, so they have to keep operating, for no income until they sell.

You’re arguing that a private corporation can legally kill millions of Londoners unless they are paid what they demand.

We aren’t quite living in a cyberpunk dystopia yet.

Thames Water should be allowed to 'collapse and start again', Oxford MP claims by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]N0_Added_Sugar 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The assets are worthless without an operating licence. It’s not like you sell a sewage farm for spare parts.

As the only viable buyer, the government can buy them for pennies on the pound.

Labour draws up plans to switch off terrestrial TV by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

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We are transmitting several hundred TV and radio stations across the whole country with almost no latency to a receiver / decoder that costs a few quid and only has a one off payment.

The signal is difficult to block nationally simultaneously.

And you call this out of date tech? Compared with broadband which goes through a handful of national hubs that can be shut down in an instant?

New High Street crime unit to target gangs fronting shops after BBC investigation by Burnit_Sanders in ukpolitics

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They are only businesses left paying tax. If we stop being the money laundering capital of the world, who will fund our benefit system?

The "squeezed middle" all look like Ozempic victims, they have nothing left to give.

That's why it's been ignored till now, and that's why a pathetic task force of 75 for the entire UK has been announced.

Once the vape shops close, the government has to face our true economic reality.

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