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- Comment on Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish 7 hours ago:
Sensible? They call it Danish-style, but the Danish Social Democrats reportedly just got their bottoms handed to them at the local elections ballot box, losing almost half their mayors and about a quarter of their councillors from the last local elections, with Copenhagen electing a non-Social-Democrat mayor for the first time since the post was created in 1938. Is that what Labour really wants to turn itself into?
- Comment on Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish 7 hours ago:
Didn’t stop the signs as late as the 1980s.
- Comment on ‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school 7 hours ago:
And now Farage has suspended a party councillor for letting the mask slip too far:
Tom Pickup, who was elected to Lancashire county council in May […] posted: “Everyone in Reform is a lot more hardline on immigration than is typically stated publicly, to get a majority government we have to be tactical.”
[…] Pickup, who was the council’s lead member for resources and finance, admitted he was a member of the group but said his messages had been “twisted out of context”. He said he was not aware of the more extreme posts, which included one person allegedly calling for a “mass Islam genocide” and encouraging others to stockpile weapons to attack “lefties” and “migrants”.
- Comment on Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party 6 days ago:
Could be good polling with poor explanation!
- Comment on Paperwork blunder by UK bookmaker reveals possible illegal offshore operation 1 week ago:
It does say billions of pounds bet, so probably one of Entain, Evoke, Flutter or bet365, as not many others are that big.
- Comment on On Prince Andrews Road, a Frustrating Effort to Get a New Address 1 week ago:
www.openstreetmap.org/way/57945563 is named after her. Look at the nearby street names. It’s in the next town north from the royal estate at Sandringham.
- Comment on UK Pension Age Changes: Workers Warned They May Work Until 80 1 week ago:
“alarming analysis by consultancy Barnett Waddingham” is saying this, not Labour. It’s basically think-tank fantasy.
- Comment on Tallest skyscraper outside London approved in £1bn project 1 week ago:
Salford.
The 78-storey tower will the third tallest in the country, behind the Shard and 22 Bishopgate in London.
- Comment on New era of better buses: Landmark Bus Bill becomes law 2 weeks ago:
No, Cardiff Bus survived after the 1980s deregulation. All that was needed to survive was never to have elected a council that chose to sell it for a quick buck, like most did, in Wales as well as England, or have appointed managers that failed to compete with private operators like Stageroach and Worst.
If they’d sold it or gone bust, Cardiff Council wouldn’t have been allowed to start more bus services themselves again.
- Comment on New era of better buses: Landmark Bus Bill becomes law 2 weeks ago:
The government is already backing local authorities York and North Yorkshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Hertfordshire, Cheshire West and Chester as part of the Bus Franchising Pilots
Would anyone from there like to tell us how it appears to be going, please?
- Comment on 'Multiple people' stabbed on train in Huntingdon 2 weeks ago:
Statement by the leader of one of the rail unions: Public transport must be made safe – for passengers and workers alike morningstaronline.co.uk/…/public-transport-must-b…
- Comment on 'Multiple people' stabbed on train in Huntingdon 2 weeks ago:
Social commentary at railforums.co.uk/…/major-incident-at-huntingdon-0…
- Comment on Andrew Windsor could face private prosecution, Republic says 2 weeks ago:
Broadly agree. An ordinary nonce probably won’t get accused of misusing the police, though.
- Comment on Andrew Windsor could face private prosecution, Republic says 2 weeks ago:
You must be seeing some comments that I’m not.
- Comment on Andrew Windsor could face private prosecution, Republic says 2 weeks ago:
Have you considered following the news and learning about the country despite not being required to take a citizenship test? Yet! 😉
- Comment on Andrew Windsor could face private prosecution, Republic says 2 weeks ago:
The Civil List, if that’s what you mean, was abolished in 2011, but they claim grants instead now.
- Comment on Andrew Windsor could face private prosecution, Republic says 2 weeks ago:
Allocating the cash from Crown Estate to the royals is itself controversial because it’s basically a special public corporation these days, unlike the private Royal Estates of Sandringham and Balmoral which the royals actually manage. Like, why exactly should the royal family be considered to own and exploit reclaimed land and the sea bed? It’s a strange throwback to the dark ages.
Also, “stipend” usually means only the Sovereign Grant, which funds only the monarch’s official duties and not all the other associated costs incurred by the royals. Some of the extra is paid for by the Duchies of Lancaster (for Charles III) and Cornwall (for William), but not all. Their police, armed services, various ceremonies and some visit costs (including road closures) are paid for from general taxation. I suspect that’s what this complaint is based on.
But in short, royal finances are a mess and almost like someone doesn’t want a simple easy-to-read budget allocated, but it’s almost certain some taxes paid for some of Andrew’s policing and pomp, and there have been recent reports he asked his police to work against his accuser, which does seem a bit like misconduct in public office.
I don’t expect this case to be allowed, unless Andrew has really really upset Charles III, but it’s not a completely ridiculous argument.
- Comment on Andrew Windsor could face private prosecution, Republic says 2 weeks ago:
Well, that campaign group has been in the news off and on for over 40 years and was covered extensively around the last coronation due to the pre-crime arrest of its leader and incredible police claims that people carrying sellotape and luggage straps were “going equipped to lock on” and those with paper, ink and paint were “going equipped to commit criminal damage.”
- Comment on Amazon cuts 14,000 jobs, blames AI 3 weeks ago:
If you did just paste that, looks like the Verge corrected it since! I wonder if they were using a competitor’s AI to generate the article, or if it was just the good old typo+autocorrect method?