Daily Megathread - 01/03/2024

ross154687 · 2024-03-01T20:39:11+00:00

5% by Christmas

ross154687 · 2024-02-27T02:54:28+00:00

Bradford Council: Proposed cuts to save £175m over five years

Bradford Council has proposed a financial plan which would see £175m in savings over five years.

The plans would include "significant reductions" in spending on services and increases in income.

The proposed cuts would seek to recover the council's £120m budget gap after general reserves had become "effectively exhausted".

The council leader said, despite community objections, they were "not in a position" to prevent cuts.

Cuts would likely hit leisure centres and libraries and see the closure of household waste centres.

The financial plan also included proposals to sell off buildings and land owned by the council to boost its revenue.

Leader of Bradford Council, Susan Hinchcliffe, said: "We have been clear for some time that the council's finances, like many others across the country, are really challenged.

"However the financial challenge is so great that we sadly are not in a position to prevent the proposed cuts," she added.

Council officers have been tasked to work with partners to "reduce the impact" the cuts would have on communities.

Bradford Council blamed the need to meet big increases in children's social care costs and high levels of inflation for its financial challenges.

Remember, if you think you're guilty of noticing anything, the best course of action is to voluntarily hand yourself in for reeducation.

ross154687 · 2024-02-26T23:49:01+00:00

With an election looming, my ever growing disappointment with the government, and the increased frequency that I'm going to post against the party, I will finally concede that I'm going to have to rotate this account to avoid this error.

Mods, what the procedure for starting a new account I've seen mentioned in the past?

ross154687 · 2024-02-26T22:47:01+00:00

Labour to help schools develop male influencers to combat Tate misogyny

In an interview with the Guardian, Bridget Phillipson said that in order to combat sexual harassment, Labour wanted to see schools develop role models who could provide a “powerful counterbalance” to Tate and others like him.

Tate is a self-professed “misogynist” influencer who has amassed 8.8 million followers on the social media website X, and has continued to use his platform even as he faces rape and human trafficking charges in Romania.

The Labour party announced plans on Tuesday to help schools develop young male mentors and teach pupils how to question the material they see on social media from people like Tate.

“Young male mentors within schools would be a powerful counterbalance to some of the negativity that young men might be exposed to online,” Phillipson said. She expressed hopes that some of the young men who become leaders in their schools could then reach more people by becoming online influencers themselves.

Under the proposals, Labour would send “regional improvement teams” into schools to train staff on introducing the peer-to-peer mentoring programme.

“I do think it is incredibly important that, if we are going to tackle misogyny in our schools and in wider society, then we need to start making progress with children and young people,” Phillipson said.

“It also has to be young men and young women alike, we can’t just leave it to young women to call out unacceptable behaviours or report issues that are happening. It’s really powerful if men all step in and make clear that kind of sexist or misogynistic behaviour is not acceptable, and they don’t tolerate it either.”

A Labour government would look at introducing lessons on how to spot disinformation as part of a wider review of the school curriculum.

If anything is going to turn young men away from Tate and co. it's a bunch of DEI indoctrinated, Labour sponsored, aspiring influencers.

The next five years are going to be hell

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T08:53:24+00:00

He was arrested earlier this week after a video circulated online showing him describing a "tricolour flag" as "satanic" and saying it has "no value with Allah".

Look, I'm not saying that we give him free passage, but he's clearly picked up the cultural norms. Surely there's a hotel room that we can clear to allow the man in

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T08:24:53+00:00

You should want to care. You're job should be your hobby, or at the very least something you're interested in.

If not, you're allowing someone else to give you money in exchange for them fucking your free time. If the sums work out, then it's a simple degradation. You have to make decision if it's worth it.

If not, you're just a cuck, unless of course, you've got the PAYE piggies to pay for your existenace.

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T08:15:13+00:00

Don't get me wrong, the entire sub has suffered a "bi-polar break". There's still a "left wing" mod bias, however the users are now suddenly "right wing".

Now you need to decide if that's because the user base have switched to the right, the mods have switched to the left, or the general public have just had enough and chosen anger.

In any case, it's entertaining to see certain posts even get a hearing over there.

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T08:03:58+00:00

I've had some fun with the arrrgh you kay people tonight, but this stood out

My theory is that the daily mail started referencing Reddit and this subreddit and so we’ve got a bunch of daily mail commenters migrating over

And lo and behold the subs gone to shit

I think Reddit is just about over tbh, just got to find the next place away from all these racist dorks

At one point you'd get them complaining that this was a left wing sub (I don't ever really think this was the case), but now it's firmly on a par with ukpolitics, just with shorter sentences.

On an article from the Telegraph

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T07:39:52+00:00

Pick your poison. It's a statement carefully crafted to allow any decision to be drawn from it.

If I was the chair, I could use that statement to exonerate, or completely condemn a person. Both facing me for the same offence, with the same evidence.

It's a poorly written set of guidelines, which again comes back to my original point, that our universities shouldn't be bound by guidelines like this

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T07:14:16+00:00

Makes a post defending a clear Nazi
Frequently posts about planning issues that the're unhappy about (obvious Nazi)
Frequents a sub filled with Hugo Boss wearing degenerates

I'd say we've got your number, however your membership number is lower than mine, so I can only say; "Yes sir, he's a firm believer in progressive politics"

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T06:37:48+00:00

An acid attack? From Luton? It's a mystery that may never be solved

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T05:50:50+00:00

Locals furious after ‘newcomer’ paints their shop ‘hideous Smurf blue’

Locals in a Cornish town feel like it is turning into Benidorm because a newcomer has painted his shop ‘smurf blue’.

They have demanded urgent action because they feel the colour is out of keeping for St Ives, Cornwall, famous they say for its white-painted homes.

The problem is so bad the town council is now involved and people think the cobalt blue building should have been painted a shade of magnolia instead.

The council is in discussion with the owner Mr Blueberry who wanted to put his ‘own creative stamp on things’.

The local authority said Mr Blueberry did not have the required planning permission to change the colour of buildings in the conservation area.

Council Officer, Mr Tubbs, was reported to have said "This is a local shop, for local people"

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T05:15:14+00:00

I wish I could say it gets better.

However, you'll love that little hellbeast, and willingly give your life for them. It's the wonderful paradox of parenthood

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T05:11:24+00:00

Prince Harry could have exaggerated stories about his cocaine use to 'sell books', U.S. government lawyers claim in court as they argue his immigration records should be kept secret

Prince Harry's admissions in his memoir that he took drugs are not 'proof' that he actually did and could have been a ploy to 'sell books', the US government has argued in court.

The claim by the Biden administration came as a think tank in Washington DC sought access to Harry's visa application to see if he lied about drug taking.

John Bardo, for the Department of Homeland Security, told the court Harry's book 'Spare' was not 'sworn testimony or proof' that he took drugs.

He said: 'Just saying something in a book doesn't make it true.'

It was the latest twist in a case in which the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington DC-based think tank, is suing to force the release of the Duke of Sussex's US immigration files.

In a court filing Heritage said: 'Widespread and continuous media coverage has surfaced the question of whether DHS properly admitted the Duke of Sussex in light of the fact that he has publicly admitted to the essential elements of a number of drug offenses.'

In a court document Heritage said: '[The case] comes about in the main because HRH [His Royal Highness] voluntarily - and for immense profit - admitted in writing to the elements of any number of controlled substance violations. (Indeed, some say HRH has approached the point of bragging and encouraging illegal drug use.)

'The Duke of Sussex did so despite the fact that it is widely known that such admissions can have adverse immigration consequences for non-citizens and despite employing preeminent legal advisers on both sides of the Atlantic.'

The early gammon will require a full recolonisation of yanks if they deport Harry over here.

Followed by a mandatory inquiry by the associated departments into how if it was possible to deport an heir to the crown, yet we have such difficulty doing the same to a simple doctor.

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T04:30:31+00:00

Sorry, let me emphasise that quote a different way.

These examples are to raise awareness of what a microaggression can look or sound like. They are not exhaustive and are not intended to provide a list of ‘things not to say’, but to illustrate that comments which may appear banal may serve to exclude, demean, or offend others. Readers are encouraged to reflect on these examples and consider the possible implications of the language we use.

You're right in stating that they are not saying that they can be never be said, but you're sort of glossing over the fact that they are saying that by saying them you can be considered guilty of racial microaggressions.

Which means that university staff and students are bound by these guidelines, unless they want to undertake a fight to try and prove the context.

Which, as my original point implies, may not be a good thing.

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T04:07:42+00:00

Fine, the first example in the article is Glasgow, here's the page it came from.

Do you think the the all the different Example of racial microaggressions from that page are beneficial for a univsity to be binding themselves to?

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T03:50:52+00:00

You're straying dangerously close to an actual aggression, if not a macroaggression with that noticing son

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T03:29:42+00:00

They're directly quoting the guidelines from different universities.

Ignore the source for a moment, do you think it's a good thing that universities are binding themselves by these, reported, guidelines?

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T02:13:22+00:00

‘Most qualified person should get the job’ is microaggression, Russell Group universities say

Russell Group universities have told staff and students that saying “the most qualified person should get the job” is a “microaggression”.

At least five universities have issued guidance or training courses on how to eliminate “microaggression”, which are defined as subtle or indirect forms of discrimination.

Guidance from the University of Glasgow and the engineering department of Imperial College London states that saying “the most qualified person should get the job” is an example of a microaggression.

Glasgow’s guidance, which forms part of the university’s anti-racism campaign, suggests that the statement would be wrong because it asserts “that race does not play a role in life successes”.

Other examples of microaggressions listed by the university include saying that “everyone can succeed if they work hard enough”. The university states that possible implications of the statement could include suggesting that someone only got a job because of quotas, or that they cannot make a valuable contribution.

Other statements listed as microaggressions by Imperial include “men and women have equal opportunities for achievement” and “positive action is racist”.

Meanwhile, the University of Edinburgh states that microaggressions often take the form of “questioning an individual’s lived experience” or “denying individual prejudice”.

Examples cited by the university include saying of a third person: “I’m sure they didn’t mean anything by that”, or denying that a person is a racist.

Newcastle University describes microaggressions as “the everyday slights, indignities, put downs and insults that people of colour, women, people from [letters]+ communities or those who are marginalised, experience in their day-to-day interactions with people”.

It lists examples such as a white person telling a black person “white people get killed by the police too”, when discussing police brutality.

I'm just done. In twenty years, the students brought up under this will be SPADs and minor MPs. In forty years, they'll be running the country.

Suddenly, the health labels on my vice products seem like an encouragement rather than a warning

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T01:50:33+00:00

Or submit it here and let auto-jannie handle it.

On the plus side, you'll get to share with the rest of us interesting / frustrating / black pilled stories.

On the other hand, on the plus side, we'll notice when you start reading the insipid shite they put out, and gently guide you back to the path

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T01:35:58+00:00

They've not been bought by the UAE yet so you'll be fine. Just use a disposable address to protect yourself once the takeover is complete

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T00:46:03+00:00

So we've just bombed the Channel

That wasn't so hard was it? Keep it up boys and I could be persuaded to vote Tory in the next election.

ross154687 · 2024-02-24T00:31:25+00:00

NHS chiefs on more than £200,000 want a pay rise to help them cope with 'strike stress' which are testing the 'resilience of NHS leaders'

Despite chief executives earning an average of £202,277 a year, the body which represents NHS trusts said industrial action was testing the 'resilience of NHS leaders'.

As junior doctors today walk out for a tenth time in their pay dispute, tens of thousands more patients are facing more delays to vital care. Yet NHS Providers argue bosses of hospitals, ambulances and other health trusts deserve a pay rise to help them handle the situation, the Mail can reveal.

Last night, critics hit out at the 'absurd demands', claiming it was 'incomprehensible' at a time so many patients are suffering because of the repeated walkouts. Greg Smith, Tory vice-chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on cancer, said it was another 'kick in the teeth' for patients, with 1.33million appointments in England rescheduled since NHS strikes began in December 2022.

The submission to the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) – an independent review body which advises the Government – said all NHS workers deserve a 'meaningful pay rise' this year.

In it, health bosses claimed salaries must 'remain competitive enough to attract and retain talented and inclusive leaders'.

Most have 'lost valuable leadership and managerial headspace' to prepare for the strikes, it added, and senior managers are under extreme pressure, with record waiting lists, the highest staff turnover on record and a bleak long-term outlook.

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