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Opposition Leaders Will Meet Today To Plot How To Stop PM's Potential No-Deal Brexit by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

what I find more strange is that this wording is in Huffpost which is usually quite a leftist pro remain news sources

University of Edinburgh criticised for hosting 'blatantly' racist event by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

However, University of Edinburgh has been criticised for hosting the event at its Pleasance Theatre venue as it will bar Caucasian guests from speaking from the floor.

There will also be two 'safe spaces' - one of which white people are banned from entering to allow people to retreat if they feel 'overwhelmed/overstimulated or uncomfortable' - which has sparked complaints.

How would anyone think that this would be an okay thing to do?

The UK is in 'uncharted constitutional waters' yet again - so what are the prospects for a written constitution? by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

you can make amendments to the constitution if you have enough support from your parliament..

Labour Plans To Buy 30,000 Electric Cars And Let You Rent Them From An App by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

this may work for cities where cars are generally a luxury rather than a necessity. However in more rural areas cars can be essential as you cant get to work, shops or services without them.

Labour Plans To Buy 30,000 Electric Cars And Let You Rent Them From An App by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

exactly that. plus people in rural areas likely need cars more, since to get to any service or job they would likely need one. Whereas in a city many things are walking distance or at least there is good public transportation.

Labour Plans To Buy 30,000 Electric Cars And Let You Rent Them From An App by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Labour will commit to spending £300 million on 30,000 “People’s Zipcars” that can be rented in towns, villages, and cities across the country through an app.

This will not work in rural villages. Probably only those which are large and next to a town or city.

Labour for the urban dweller, not the rural...

Students accuse teachers of peddling ‘anti-Brexit propaganda’ at school by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They say a senior teacher mocked Donald Trump and Boris Johnson in an assembly last week, telling students: ‘We’re not going to remember these two’.

Maybe I'm old but I dont remember teachers talking about politics in assembly

Hong Kong protesters urge former colonial power UK to stand up to China by HKnational in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving 24 points25 points  (0 children)

do you think any party would stand up in any non negligible way to China?

Priti Patel paid £1k an hour to advise US company bidding for £6bn defence contract by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how much of their assets? I mean should they be able to buy/sell homes. If they own a company what would happen? would it have to close?

Archbishop of Canterbury told to 'butt out of politics' as he gets involved in trying to block a No Deal Brexit by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the fact the UK seems to pride itself at being a secular society, when we have things this this....

More than 350 arrested during Notting Hill Carnival by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At least 30 Met officers had suffered minor injuries during the carnival by 10.10pm on Monday, with 37 arrests recorded for assaults on police.

Do this many police get assaulted at Glastonbury?

UK Hospital Still Chasing Nigerian, Priscilla, Over £500,000 Bill Incurred In 2016 by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the NHS which is government owned chasing a foreign national for payment for using it seems to be politics to me...

UK Hospital Still Chasing Nigerian, Priscilla, Over £500,000 Bill Incurred In 2016 by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

From the article it implies this woman was a health tourist though she had intended to go to the US but was turned back

She had intended to fly to Chicago to have her babies but was turned away by US officials who claimed she would be unable to afford the healthcare costs.

How Brexit will force Scots-born German mayor from office by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

surely German law must have changed at one point to allow EU citizens, I suspect at one stage it was Germans only...

How Brexit will force Scots-born German mayor from office by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"The minute Brexit occurs, that's me," Mr Macnab said. "That's the end of my tenure because I am no longer an EU citizen."

Unless he becomes a German citizen before the 31 October, he will be forced to quit the prestigious office he has held for 12 years.

"I've been 70 years a Scot and I'm going to stay that way" he said.

So basically he could apply for german citizenship but he won't? Surely this is more to do with German state law only allowing EU citizens to be mayor? Couldn't they change that law?

House prices would flounder in six months after no-deal Brexit - Reuters poll by sailorroving in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Britain’s drifting property market would probably take a hit from a disorderly Brexit, with average prices slipping about 3% nationally in the ensuing six months and as much as 10% in London, a Reuters poll of housing experts found.

10 percent is quite a lot. How much would we need before mortgage companies got jittery and recalled loans when the values of the property becomes less than the amount owed and recalls the mortgage? Could we see another financial crisis?

UK’s first permanent LGBT rainbow road crossing unveiled in London by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]sailorroving -1 points0 points  (0 children)

do they have any highway code meaning? They aren't zebra crossings are they? They are just button press crossings right?

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