HumanPenguin
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- Comment on Reeves suggests UK-EU trade more important than US deal ahead of Washington talks 19 hours ago:
And the acceptance that the EU is a priority is also acceptance that none of trump’s desires can happen.
Us downgrading to accept any US standards that are not already EU accepted. Means we will not be able to sign a simple deal with the EU.
As soon as we accept multiple incompatible tradeing rules. Trade with the EU becomes more complex and expensive.
And trump etc al have absolutely no interest in adapting to any standard but their own.
Besides this. Trump has already proven no deal signed with the US is worth the paper it is written on. Even his own deals signed with Canada are worthless as soon as he decides he doesn’t like them.
And we can never trust the nation not to vothe narcissistic idiots in again. The US is just not trustworthy as a trade partner.
- Comment on Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says 3 days ago:
We awoke to finally find ourselves entering a little light. Then just as we were starting to celebrate. We forgot the folks in the back.
And suddenly those folks shouted grabbed our ankles and dragged us back into the dark brambles of bigotry.
The fear was more then they could handle. And our lack of far was more then they were willing to tolerate.
- Comment on Compilation of Protests Against the Supreme Court – What The Trans!? 6 days ago:
The protest need to be aimed at parliament.
While interpretations are grown to interpretation. Interpret the laws parliament passes is all the power the court has.
To prevent this requires the sovereign parliament, to word the law in a non questionable way.
The only way this gets fixed. Is to convince parliament to change the GRC law ro clearly state that suck operations make the recipient legally female. And to address the intersex issue by stating such people are the sex they identify with as an adult.
The actual science only matters if parliament chooses to make it so. Even then the law tends to apply to the science at the time of passing.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 1 week ago:
Agreed.
But the issue is with both the words extremists and religious. No extremists thinks they are. Heck I can assure you most think our rejection is extream. And religiose people rarely admit their restrictions are religion. Even when using the Bible to justify shit. They will argue it is science or common sense.
Their is a need to term unacceptable laws in a way that forces them to openly argue their restrictions do not apply. Or actually are religious extremism. The latter is close to impossible.
Be honest with ourselves. I agree trans equality laws should exist. But only 20 or 30 years ago society as a majority considered them extream. Some off us remember it even if we disagreed.
Gay marriage was def extream when I was in my teens. Gary rights at all in my parents teens. (They also disagreed)
And a very small % of any of those considered their religious ideals as a significant element.
- Comment on Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads 1 week ago:
Unfortunately it requires our government to take a strong position. To actually stand up publicly and tell the people of the UK. We will not tollerarate this return to the fascist playback used before ww2.
Without that librarians and soon store keepers will constantly face the threats and attacks of extremists groups.
Much like anti abortion protesters try to intimidated those that disagree with them protesting clinics etc.
That is exactly what is being attempted here. Racism prejudice and fear for the future is being weaponised by the right. If our gov dose not stand up to the actions now. The attempts in the US to override the legal system etc will follow. Reform or a reunigghting of the people who support it will turn into a trump like administration.
We saw the start of this when Boris tried to shut down parliment illegally. The attacks on the echr are the UK equiv of the claim we saw leading up to trump 1. IE the supreme Court has become political. Gaining the power to take control. Our right is doing the same by trying to eject us from the courts mandate.
- Comment on Universal theme park for Bedfordshire confirmed by Starmer 2 weeks ago:
And yet they won’t endorse Buy British.
The issue with buy British is, it equates to an anti all foreign trade message. Where we actually need a stronger trade link with nations other then the US.
“Don’t buy US” is more effective
- Comment on Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe 2 weeks ago:
In the US most equipment suppliers have raised loading unloading for contractors.
So the big pickups are designed to be a similar height to low loader semis in the US.
- Comment on Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe 2 weeks ago:
Thanks due to vision loss I’ve not been able to drive since 2010ish.
So have not been paying attention to the market.
Oops.
- Comment on Ill and disabled people will be made ‘invisible’ by UK benefit cuts, say experts 2 weeks ago:
I’d say its the reverse. The fact that disabled have been abused by tories for 14 years. Yet no one paid significant attention to protests. Means they are already invisible to the majority. So the gov knows the can intentionally ignore them while increasing the abuse…
- Comment on Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe 2 weeks ago:
Having driven in the US.
There smaller trucks/lorrys often used for rental etc. Uhual etc.
We really do not want that shit on our roads.
And as the same law is what allows many of there huge suvs. Nope def not a good idea.
Every nation that sells cars. Expects to adjust them to differing standards. Even the US he ce why Vauxhall exists.
Trump is being his usual cos I say so self with no real merit to his claims.
At no point should the UK be willing to lower standards to trade. Just as we have to adapt or not sell cars the US wont cert. If the US considers europe ir the UK a worthwhile market. They can continue to adapt.
They would have some resemblance of a point if we only made rules on their cars. But most cars sold in the UK are imported. Why the hell should the US get discounts our own manufacturers dont.
- Comment on More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space 3 weeks ago:
Those exemption do not currently apply to actual licence to vechle type allocation.
I do not know about the rest of the EU. But in the UK no class of car only applies to disabled users or actual road access law.
If I live on a no vechle access road. Being disabled would not allow me to drive a car to my doorstep.
Same goes for any limitation in the site or weight of vehicles.
My licence (no longer valid as I now have a disability that bans me from driving.) Was an old one that allows me to drive 3,5t trucks. Newer licences do not let younger drivers do so without passing a different test.
This is the closest we have ever come to adding a new restriction on the type of car you cab drive. No extra specification for disability has ever existed for the changes you propose. Hence why I included this need to reconsider so Ugh things in my suggestion.
As for the rest of your response. The comment you responded to was trying to address that exact situation,
- Comment on More than 1m cars sold in UK each year too big to fit typical parking space 3 weeks ago:
We should really just have EU law that over a certain size requires a new license that isn’t automatically given to people that have one now.
Ignoring the brexit crap and assuming you ment EU and UK laws.
I don’t think that would help. If we had a new licence class. It would just mean people need to do more tests to drive it.
Unfortunately licence structure have no when needed requirements. Just the qualification.
A suggested solution would be a road access class. If vehicles over a certain size (lets just say width. ) had a significant no of roads they were only allowed in for blue badge holders or loading and unloading. No parking.
For most owners the impractical living with such vehicles would only be tolerable when they have a second transport and a safe storage area that dosent ban parking.
- Comment on AI firms are ‘scraping the value’ from UK’s £125bn creative industries, says Channel 4 boss 3 weeks ago:
Lobbying to change the copyright to forever is certainly happening in the UK.
And the current 50 or 70 years is def a move towards it from the original 14 to 21 years created in 1710 when copyright was first created in the UK.
So yes it is. We are just a slower change then the US
- Comment on AI firms are ‘scraping the value’ from UK’s £125bn creative industries, says Channel 4 boss 3 weeks ago:
Terrible.
Almost as bad as IP firms stripping the whole point of copyright by lobbying to change copyright terms to forever.
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- Comment on Thames Water picks US private equity firm KKR as preferred buyer 3 weeks ago:
Executive and board compensation as a result of any deal of this nature should be public money.
- Comment on Police launch urgent search after girl, 11, falls into River Thames 3 weeks ago:
Cold flowing water is very very different from a warm swimming pool. Especially when dressed.
The current in the Thames can get dangerous for strong adult swimmers in certain areas. (Or the whole upper thames at certain times of year)
- Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes 3 weeks ago:
Never let facts get in the way of a good joke.
- Comment on A quarter of Britons now disabled 3 weeks ago:
But just over 7% of brits claiming any disabled benefits.
Please remember these numbers are in no way backing for the crap the government is doing. Most disabled work.
Even most on disabled on benifits work. PIP is not about income. It is about covering the difference in cost for disabiled to live anything close to equally in society. Including getting to and fr work.
- Comment on I'm So Proud To Be Deported From The USA - Dorset Eye 4 weeks ago:
Nit a gambler. Bit im seriosly wondering what odds I can get on Trump refusing to step down.
To much of this is looking like the early moves of a dictator.
He has already indicated an unconstitutional 3rd term.
- Comment on Why Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is wrong about UK’s net-zero goal. 5 weeks ago:
Her basic argument is.
" whaaa it hard and my funders dont wanna whaaaa waaa. ’
- Comment on Government to save £5bn by restricting benefits to 'those with the greatest need' 5 weeks ago:
Exactly the claim made by tories when they invented PIP.
A reminder for all those not watching. The process for reviewi g claims cost them way way more then they ever saved.
A huge 60 % of rejected cases were overthrown by courts for failing to follow thier own rules.
And DWP is still refusing to release their imvestigation into the huge rose in suicides from claiments.
Anyone who thinksbclaiming PIP is toneasy is delusional.
The disabled community as a whole has spent the last 14 years stressed to the point of ill helth through exactly the percecution Labour is planing to contine.
- Comment on More SEND pupils could go to mainstream schools as support shake-up is considered 5 weeks ago:
Yes but. (And I do not agree with labor here)
There is also a huge problem when disabled students are separated from every day children. Part of that problem is in the lack of support seen for disabled in society.
Separate but equal is never really true. But also leads to a lack of understanding between the communities. This among other issues. Allows politicians to safely attack disabled benifits. And get away with lack of funding to SEND schools.
As a community. We are currently under attack. There are multiple posts atm on this subject. But at the time of writing any in non disabled centric communities. have 0 comments.
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 1 month ago:
Bollocks is it non sequitur.
Non voters cannot be counted as objectors or supporters. Other then to assume the same divide as voters. Maling every comment you made statistically irrelevant to the result you are doubting.
If you fail to understand statistics please avoid discussions that are entirly about statistics.
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 1 month ago:
Not the op you responded to.
But
First 72% is actually a huge turnout compared to pretty much any vote in the last 50 years.
The 28% that did not vote cannot be used to argue either side of the vote. As such they must be assumed to divide as the vote was.
Same with 1.9 % spoiled ballots. As we do not have any legal none of the above option. You have absolutely no way to decide that 1.9 % between those who support or don’t. So again statistically they have to be divided as those who successfully voted are.
This is exactly why we do not count non voters or spoiled votes when deciding on an election. If 1.9% was significantly higher then other election or 72% significantly lower. Maybe some data might make sense. But the result would still be the same without further info. You would still have no ability to use them as a rejection or support for the vote.
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 1 month ago:
And honestly they are correct. Any attempt to rejoin now. Especially based on a partition with well under the 16m voters figure. Is only going to result in more anti EU bull and a growth in ukip like supporters.
The UK as a whole needs to accepthow fucking stupid leaving was. And rather will not happen untill we see the huge support wi originally had for joining.
Below that we will just repeatedly have people feeling forced one way or the other constantly refusing to partake in the spirit of the EU.
EEA is the best we will get and even that will be a fight for some time.
- Comment on Government announces plan to open up Land Registry 1 month ago:
Health yeah, or more to the point it should have ide Tina left data removed.
But the actual group data should very much be open. And that likely should be applied to most things.
As foe criminal records. That is already open as most court cases are public.
Closing it would be the first step in hiding prejudicial actions.so lets not change that.
- Comment on Government announces plan to open up Land Registry 1 month ago:
Honestly any non military data collected by the gov. Should be open by default.
Even military should be required to proove the need for secretary every so often.
- Comment on Crossbow killer Kyle Clifford was 'fuelled' by Andrew Tate videos before rape and murders, court told 1 month ago:
Interesting interpretation. Given that is exactly way rape within marriage did not exist in the UK until the 1990s.
IE a wife was historically considered property. And this is to some extent the issue with the tate attitude.
PS I am in no way suggesting you think that. Just pointing out how coincidental the typo / missed word is.
PS be sure to confirm your body parts concent next time you feel lonely ;)
- Comment on The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers 1 month ago:
Yep. I’m likely older than you. (coincidently bang on the age where the stats placed our votes at 50/50 )
So I was born a few years before we voted to join. And grew up watching most of the benefits becoming a part of UK life. And realise half my generation are fucking insane.