lemonflavoured
@lemonflavoured@kbin.social
- Comment on UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s 6 months ago:
Not at all enforcable.
So of course they'll do it.
- Comment on Conservatives set for worst election result yet, research shows 7 months ago:
I think they'll get somewhere in the region of 160 seats at the least. Maybe even 200 depending on Events.
Labour have got to be seen as doing something in the next 5 years though, else it might well swing back again in 2029.
- Comment on Labour 'committed' to assisted dying vote, Sir Keir Starmer tells Dame Esther Rantzen 7 months ago:
He's hardly the only MP who does that (Tim Farron and Simon Hughes, famously, over same sex marriage for two Lib Dem examples).
- Comment on Disgraced singer Gary Glitter refused jail release 8 months ago:
This is hardly a surprise, given that the first thing he did when released before was try to circumvent the restrictions placed on him.
- Comment on Scientology-linked UK drug rehab left vulnerable people ‘traumatised’ 8 months ago:
Then whoever was overseeing said "rehab" should be arrested. Right?
- Comment on Brianna Ghey's killers named 8 months ago:
The girl got life with a minimum of 22 years (and a comment saying it would "take a lot of work" for her to be released), The boy got life with a minimum of 20.
- Comment on Slew of deepfake video adverts of Sunak on Facebook raises alarm over AI risk to election 9 months ago:
This is going to carry on until we get a Phil Woolas situation and some election results get overturned.
- Comment on BBC News - Blackpool Tower 'fire' was actually fluttering orange netting 10 months ago:
The BBC followed this up with an article about similar stories, including the two different "soft toy mistaken for an escaped tiger" ones.
It does also remind me of the (in)famous "false leg mistaken for paedophile" incident.
- Comment on Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat 10 months ago:
FPTP isn't inherently undemocratic. It's not ideal, for any number of reasons, but it does have the advantage of a strong local link to representatives and (usually) leads to strong governments. I personally would prefer STV like Ireland has as a first choice, and as a second choice some form of MMP (like the Scottish Parliament, or New Zealand, or Germany)
- Comment on Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’ 10 months ago:
It might have changed, but at one point you could only sell pre-sliced bread in 400g or multiples of that.
- Comment on Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat 10 months ago:
"Britain is one of the oldest democracies"
Is it?
We didn't have full and equal universal suffrage until 1924. Even ignoring that, elections before about 1832 were barely democratic in a lot of places.
- Comment on Peter Bone MP loses seat as recall petition triggers by-election 10 months ago:
I wouldn't put it past him to stand in the by election just to spite the Tories
- Comment on Covid lockdowns had ‘catastrophic effect’ on UK’s social fabric, report claims 10 months ago:
Yeah, and having no lockdowns would have had an even more catastrophic effect.
- Comment on the Sun reacts to Zephaniah applying for a Cambridge visiting fellowship 10 months ago:
Kelvin McKenzie is a cunt, film at 11.
- Comment on Truss-supporting economists call for minimum wage to be frozen, then cut 11 months ago:
They would, wouldn't they?
- Comment on Gimp banned from wearing a gimp suit in public and 'crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground' for five years 11 months ago:
What situations do you give people anonymity then?
- Comment on Gimp banned from wearing a gimp suit in public and 'crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground' for five years 11 months ago:
So you're answer is that no one is ever named after committing a crime?
- Comment on UK AI Summit: Big Tech to Allow Government Vetting of AI Products 11 months ago:
That's sure to end well.
- Comment on Gimp banned from wearing a gimp suit in public and 'crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground' for five years 11 months ago:
why is sharing his name and face necessary or even allowed?
Open justice?
- Comment on Gimp banned from wearing a gimp suit in public and 'crawling, wriggling or writhing on the ground' for five years 11 months ago:
Bring on the gimp!
- Comment on The Halloween peppermints that poisoned Bradford 11 months ago:
It wouldn't surprise me if this was actually the origin for those myths.
- Comment on Chris Packham’s ‘instinctive’ bird sniffing is not a crime, police say 1 year ago:
That's an ... unusual headline, to say the least.
I don't always agree with Chris, but he does get a lot of unneeded shite from the right wingers, so he has my sympathy on that.
- Comment on Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds 1 year ago:
I could name a couple of local ones to me, plus Mary Seacole because she comes up a fair bit in these discussions.
- Comment on The Shit List 2023 1 year ago:
Ashfield is pretty deranged, tbf.
(I live just outside his constituency)
- Comment on Government keeping files on teaching assistants and librarians’ internet activity 1 year ago:
IIRC wasn't there a bit more too it than "just" making a pug nazi salute?
- Comment on Government keeping files on teaching assistants and librarians’ internet activity 1 year ago:
This is not exactly surprising, but is more evidence of a strong Stasi element in British government.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak considers tax cut for top earners after byelection defeats 1 year ago:
So the same thing Truss wanted to do that completely fucked the economy? Hmm.
- Comment on Andrew Flintoff agrees reported £9m compensation with BBC after Top Gear crash 1 year ago:
People reading the article? What a concept!
- Comment on Israel 'has a right' to withhold power and water from citizens in Gaza - Starmer 1 year ago:
Hamas aren’t the government.
De Facto they are.
- Comment on Israel 'has a right' to withhold power and water from citizens in Gaza - Starmer 1 year ago:
He said everything within the remit of international law…
Which has the slight issue that "withholding power and water" is (arguably) not legal under international law.