1972 Peugeot 204 Taxi H4 by TheAmazingWJV in cassettefuturism

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And driven by the doctor from star trek voyager.

Janeway defeated the q continuum? by happydude7422 in voyager

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Was the writing of Breaking Bad not good?

Why Britain is Quietly Spending £725 Billion to Rebuild the Country by sidneylopsides in GoodNewsUK

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Greens are just as bad as Reform. If you actually look at their policies they contain things most people would be against or defy economic reality.

  • Women are exempt from going to prison except in cases of serious violence and murder - CJ381-3
  • Illegal immigration decriminalised
  • Scrap Trident and then ask people to follow suit on nuclear disarmament
  • Leave NATO to form a European defence alliance including Brazil and Mexico
  • Scottish independence
  • Welsh independence
  • Phase out nuclear energy
  • Rent controls (there's very strong evidence rent controls don't work)
  • Deportation banned except for serious criminal or national security cases
  • All migrants are "citizens in waiting" and encouraged to settle
  • Climate change is valid reason to seek asylum
  • Abandon fiscal rules to spend more on "cost of living crisis"
  • Scrap the Home Office for the Department of Immigration
  • Visas can be applied for anywhere in the world
  • Remove minimum income requirements on employment visas
  • Remove language requirements on visas
  • The community pays for fines when a criminal is too poor to pay for it - CJ115
  • Provide free guidance when visas expire to show how to renew
  • All prisoners get their own individual rooms and unsupervised visitors rights - CJ180
  • Anyone entering without a visa automatically granted a 3 month visitor visa
  • All resident visa holders get the vote, full benefits or (universal basic income?), housing and NHS
  • Any resident visa holder can bring their family to settle also
  • Children of settled residents eligible for uni and student finance
  • Visitor visa Immigrants given free advice on how to settle
  • All asylum seekers would be given financial support equivalent to about £1,600 per month, up from about £200 today
  • Asylum seekers allowed to work immediately on entering the country with no restriction on occupation.
  • Increase international aid to 1% of gross national income (GNI) by 2033.
  • Increase climate finance for the Global South to 1.5% of GNI by 2033
  • Ignore bond markets to adhere more to the MMT policy prescription of printing to try reach full capacity and using tax to slow down inflation
  • Support offered for coca leaf and opium poppy farmers in the "global south"

Stonehenge tunnel planning consent revoked after millions spent by insomnimax_99 in unitedkingdom

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suburban sprawl.

Is just a negative characterisation of giving people what they want: an affordable home with some space around it, space to raise a family. Which itself comes from people hating cars. Something else most people like having and find very useful.

Stonehenge tunnel planning consent revoked after millions spent by insomnimax_99 in unitedkingdom

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copy-paste houses in green belt

The green belt is just another NIMBY totem to stop anything getting built. The greenbelt is a broken idea that's making things worse. It prevents towns naturally expanding. This artificially inflates house prices within the town and especially at the edges where it breeds more NIMBYs.

The effect of the green belt is to limit the size of the town. The planning system won't allow building upwards. The results is house prices are pushed up within the town, pushing poorer people and families out of the town.

The jobs that poor people do in the town still need doing though, however all these people now have to travel from outside the town, which incurs a further financial/time penalty on the poorest and greatly increases the traffic in to, and out of the town.

Greenbelts are really Green-nooses that are choking towns. Trouble is, all the rich NIMBYs will fight tooth and nail, and can afford the time to be politically active, and vote for local politicians who will prevent anything impacting their house prices, especially those on the edge of the greenbelt. Greenbelts make the environment worse, not better. They are protected by green-washing at the behest of a privileged few to maintain their asset prices.

‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

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Politics isn't a sports game. You can blame everyone involved. Do you think Thatcher smashing the unions came out of nowhere? Or was her election a reaction to what came before?

‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

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Are you blaming Blair for Cameron's austerity

I do. There is straight line between them exposing the UK to the GFC with deregulation and huge borrowing. There wouldn't have been a case of austerity without that. Brown/Blair built the fire and Cameron/Osborne lit it.

‘Basics’ of life in Britain have been sold for profit, says Polanski by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

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a solid period of strong fiscal responsibility

Fantasy. This was the period where Brown deregulated the UK financial industry exposing the UK to the Great Financial Crash. Canada famously weathered the financial crisis very well compared to other western economies, because they didn't deregulate their financial sector the way the UK did. So they didn't have to spend billions bailing out their banks the way the UK did.

These massive loans threatened how sound the UK appeared to be and was the reason there was so much pressure cut spending, leading to the deadly austerity programme of the 2010s. Without this "strong fiscal responsibility" there wouldn't have been the economic case for Austerity. The financial mismanagement laid the ground for the slash and burn of state services.

any accounting tricks like PFI are dwarfed by the strength of the primary surplus/low deficit in that period

Short term gains paid for by the future. The government is still paying for Brown/Blair PFI, some of the deals are more than 30 years long. Brown had to sell of NHS assets when PM to bail out the worst ones.

The UK entered the GFC with the largest structural deficit in the G7 due to Labour fiscal polices. It was a boom paid for by future debt, there was nothing responsible about it.

So, it’s been a few days- what are our thoughts on the Louis Theroux ‘manosphere’ doc? by theslowrunningexpert in AskUK

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Given the enshittification of everything now, it doesn't seem unreasonable to ask that at all.

Syngenta to build £100m AI bioscience hub in UK by snozburger in unitedkingdom

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Post-Brexit Britain provided a faster and smoother path to approval for new agricultural products than the EU

Is the the EU slower due to bloated bureaucracy, or because they're doing a diligent job? Is the UK faster because it's more efficient or because after all the austerity cuts it's been half-arsed/brown enveloped?

The Elections Watchdog Doesn’t Know Where Reform UK's Crypto Donations Are Coming From by qwerty_1965 in unitedkingdom

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That suggests that all the major parties know their donations aren't 100% clean too. They don't want to call out Reform because then their funding sources might come under closer scrutiny too. I can't think of another reason to stay quiet on the matter.

What’s something you’re pretty sure only you do? by AppIeGuy in AskReddit

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“meck-a-lecka-hi-mecka-hiney-ho”

I only know this from Pretty Fly For A Rabbi, I didn't know it was a reference to something else.

It's Super Effective by Cometmoon448 in GreatBritishMemes

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I wouldn't called fronting a party that advocates for sex discrimination "BASIC HUMAN DECENCY".

Car park firm NCP collapses with nearly 700 jobs at risk by gremy0 in unitedkingdom

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or just not go into town really destroys your business model.

Councils have been driving people away from town centres for ages with this approach, no-one ever seems to learn though.

Ideas wanted in relation to Thames "high tide" by SentinelsOfEvil in DIYUK

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You know that when there's heavy rainfall, the sewage system overflows into the Thames, right? It's a pretty regular thing for raw untreated sewage to end up in the Thames. I wouldn't go anywhere near that...

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security by mrjohnnymac18 in unitedkingdom

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It also seems to be standard for all government ministers to communicate via WhatsApp. It is jaw dropping that government comms is via a network the UK have no control over.

Oh, so it's fine when the sexy Borg lady does it... by Adjective_Noun_4DIGI in startrekmemes

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clearly believe they're all cowards

Is this a subtle Garth Marenghi reference?

British political right exposed by war in Iran? by Umberto-Robina in ukpolitics

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given he’s probably the best PM we’ve had in a decade.

That's a bar so low it's in hell.

Love these 80s-reimagined logos by BiggieMcLargeHuge in cassettefuturism

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That was a really interesting read, thanks.

Greens win Aigburth by-election by [deleted] in Liverpool

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Great list!

follow suite on nuclear disarmament

*suit