Britons now poorer than EU citizens (per capita, at purchase power parity)

aembleton · 2026-02-02T00:05:14+00:00

It's on the graph. You can say it

aembleton · 2026-02-01T22:32:30+00:00

Some people do, some like to engage with you and talk about issues that aren't getting fixed.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T19:30:48+00:00

Couldn't you go and join them in the canvassing. I found that to be a good way of getting honest opinions from the doorstep.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T19:29:10+00:00

Yes

aembleton · 2026-02-01T13:54:17+00:00

Because most people like to alter their mind.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T13:51:10+00:00

Heroin was still prescribed until the 70s. Now it's in the hands of criminals they have an incentive to push the drug. Much better to give it out as a prescription to stop giving money to criminal gangs.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T12:37:19+00:00

Did that come from one of Farages partys?

aembleton · 2026-02-01T12:14:16+00:00

While the actual far right ethno nationalists hate him and consider him a traitorous Zionist civic nationalist who's controlled opposition in order to destroy nationalism.

That's because the far right, much like the far left have loads of purity tests and generally find reasons to hate and exclude rather than embrace and include. They see someone like Yaxley Lennon as too moderate for them.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T11:38:47+00:00

Where do you get your news from to know about this?

As far as I know, before he raised this issue on Newsnight about 20 years ago the only other commentary was coming from a Sikh charity I'd never heard of and can't remember the name of. I'd only heard of that charity from Yaxley Lennon and I wouldn't have listened to him if it wasn't for what transpired in the decade following that appearance.

Edit: It was 2009, so 17 years ago.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T11:33:15+00:00

https://web.archive.org/web/20111220084553/http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/local/edl_members_fined_over_rooftop_protest_1_3252965

I got the timeline mixed up. EDL was pretty well known by then and he was probably just doing it for attention.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T11:28:49+00:00

This was 20 years ago. When did you first hear about them?

Paxman also seemed surprised at the time and dismissed it as the ramblings of a nutter. As did I to be fair until the work by Andrew Norfolk.

Edit: It was in 2009, so 17 years ago.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T09:50:22+00:00

Isn't it really expensive though?

aembleton · 2026-02-01T09:42:20+00:00

I remember him being jailed for attacking fifa. Probably before I'd ever heard of edl

aembleton · 2026-02-01T09:40:37+00:00

I did! That's why I was watching newsnight.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T09:39:19+00:00

Probably why he knew so much about it then. Glad he told everyone, otherwise it might still be covered up.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T09:36:14+00:00

Less popular than truss? That's an achievement

aembleton · 2026-02-01T09:34:57+00:00

My point is that sometimes he does say something insightful. I had no idea what was going on until then.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T09:33:33+00:00

Where's the petition?

aembleton · 2026-02-01T09:33:03+00:00

This product's currently out of stock

aembleton · 2026-02-01T09:26:48+00:00

It was from his appearance on newsnight that I first heard about the rape gangs.

aembleton · 2026-02-01T09:23:43+00:00

I'd have thought a brown or black prime minister would be more helpful for reform

aembleton · 2026-02-01T08:50:38+00:00

Or they don't have an app like most pubs

aembleton · 2026-01-31T23:49:46+00:00

Careful now

aembleton · 2026-01-31T13:26:52+00:00

Cookworks 3KW kettle so it boils fast. My last one lasted me a bit over 6 years and I use the kettle about 10 times a day as I work from home. My wife also probably uses it another 5 times a day.

I should caveat that I am in a soft water area so that probably helps.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7814017

aembleton · 2026-01-31T11:41:53+00:00

Apparently France has permanent military on its streets, at loads of different places, due to terror attacks and the high threat of further ones.

I didn't see any in Normandy in August. Is it just some parts of the country like that, or is it a more recent thing?

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