mannycalavera

@mannycalavera@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Cheap travel is not a defence’: the parents facing court for school absences in England⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Say your kids grandparents love half way across the world. And you only get to see them once a year at best. What do schools say about that?

  Fuck you be richer. Visit during half term?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: Guardian's Katharine Viner was warned Arday was at risk - yet published anyway⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why people give money to the last known bastion of the free press.

  Oh wait… no it’s not. I wonder how many will cancel their donations and denounce the paper. Or will they hand wave it away.

  Everyone makes mistakes…

  🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British Jews⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This will be dressed up as an opinion piece.

  We’re just interviewing people and expressing their opinions.

  He’s free to sue them of course, but I think he knows it will go nowhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK diplomats no longer get hardship bonus for being posted to Buenos Aires⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like the government can means tests these payments but is unable to means test the triple lock. Odd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New IRA warns migrants to ‘leave in 24 hours or else’ as security fears explode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A terrorist group from the Republic of Ireland are threatening “migrants” (anyone darker in skin tone than they are)

  Not sure they’ve seen the amount of fake tan and dodgy eyebrows they’ve got going over there. “Anyone darker than they are” must be legitimately pulling all mass and even light towards them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The polls go straight in the… bin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SafeSpace4U: the company running an illegal children’s homes empire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like that Camilla Batmangella Kids Company charity that was caught fiddling the books instead of caring for children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ireland is not part of the UK. They’d be very upset, rightly so, if you even suggested they are.

  This post has nothing to do with the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not get fixated on the employment part. There’s also not being in further education. And also not being in training (like an apprenticeship for example).

  If you could identify a child that would later on in life struggle to either be in further education or training you’d help them, right?

  The solution is more resources per child with constant evaluation and alteration of the system and what it offers, it really is that simple.

  That sounds like what this is aimed at doing. Did you read somewhere that all they are doing is putting kids on a naughty list?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Without knowing what they plan to do with children that are identified it is hard to say much more. But the point of school, surely, should be to prepare children for their future such that they can function in a society.

  Imagine what you would be doing if you’re later in life classed as being Not in Employment, Education, or Training for anything (what is known as NEET). That doesn’t sound like a very fulfilling life. Giving people extra help such that they can go onto further education, or training for a skill (even if you take umbridge to the word employment) is surely a good thing.

  What would you have happen to these children? If you could identify clear markers at an early age?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I decided, against my better judgement, to actually read past the headline 😉.

  This follows on from some research that indicates kids are three times more likely to fall into unemployment after they leave school based on some indicators at an early age. So the idea is that these children get extra help to make sure they don’t end up in a lifetime of joblessness. Wouldn’t this be similar to spotting kids that are struggling with English or Maths at an early age to help them before it is too late?

  Somehow according to Lemmy this is a bad thing 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sending them to Spain Italy and Greece via the Med as we speak. 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lift The Ban - Graduation Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were a car thief, I’d hang about these rallies and wait until the rozzers start handcuffing grannies and vicars. Then I’d quietly put fake parking tickets on their police vans whilst they weren’t looking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Birmingham man fined over £140 for stealing sandwich and cookies from Greggs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The court heard Brennan ignored the warning and “encouraged two other males to enter and steal items” before leaving without paying.

  Gregg’s should be literally giving food away for free. As should every shop. Just give things to people. That way there would be no need to steal? Problem solved. I can’t believe they haven’t thought of this sooner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New North Sea oil drilling faces delay after gear accidentally dropped in sea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jaysus Andy. Can’t even damage the environment properly! We’re doomed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Met Police re-opens war crimes case on Britons fighting for Israel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh gosh! Are Labour going to proscribe the Met now? Where’s Yvette Cooper moved to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burnham approves US use of UK bases for some strikes on Iran, Bloomberg reports | Move marks a continuation of predecessor Keir Starmer's policy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not how general elections work in the UK.

  You vote for your local MP, and the party with a large enough selection of MPs gets to choose their Premier to be PM. So if the party wants to rotate their premier, so be it.

  It’s quite simple but a lot of people seem to have trouble understanding this process. It just goes to show the dire state of education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh Hope. Yes. That’s what we’ll pay nurses. Hope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Israeli Property Fair Is Still Advertising Illegal West Bank Homes to Brits⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll sell them anyway. It seems nobody wants to stop them. And they’ll be British buyers too. Nothing will happen. No consequences.

  This is the world we live in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to fly from the US to the UK as a duel citizen?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Carry them both?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to fly from the US to the UK as a duel citizen?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh the imposition! You expect them to carry two passports?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Falklands are ours': Argentina players spark outrage with full-time banner as 'multiple arrests made outside stadium'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically kids that don’t understand the horrors Argentina went through the last time they sent untrained teenagers to fight a war they couldn’t fund.

  Give Argentina back to the indigenous people that were there before the Spanish pirates?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bank of England governor would have put off Farage meeting had £5m gift been under investigation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If anyone has interest in the UK it’s the Bank of England… 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond should stay white and male, says casting chief⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Second compromise, he stays white and male but he dresses fabulous snap snap and he talks Jive.

  I ain’t handin’ ova no gun and license, honkey. Sheeeeeiiiit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t matter. It powers American jobs and economy which is all that mattered when Keir allowed this shit to happen in the first place. Mustn’t upset the orange man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk family foundation took Tommy Robinson to Russia, says Musk’s father⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Send him to Russia cancel his British citizenship. Put him on an abandoned island. I don’t give a fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are living fewer years in good health: Is the NHS part of the problem?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I said this before but make it super easy and affordable to live healthy lives. Subsidise the crap out of well built community gyms that are within reach for all ages. They exist but are very expensive. Subsidise the crap out of healthy foods that are easy to prepare like access to fruit and vegetables.

  It baffles me that people live their lives smoking, vaping, getting smashed, and eating kebabs and then end up with lung cancer / obesity that the NHS needs to find funds to look after. I’m not saying we should outlaw these things, who doesn’t like a cheeky kebab? But we’re rapidly turning into the US and expecting the NHS to just pick up the problems.

  If you viewed the national health as preventative rather than reactionary these things would already be in place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meghan will not appear at public events during Harry UK trip⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well of course not, there’s no profit in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irish Hotel Cancels Conference for Peter Thiel’s Secretive Group⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as this is a good news story, Ireland is not the UK. And Irish people would rightly be offended at the suggestion. Does this post really belong here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a pretty old quote, no? Ask him again during any leadership race. And again after he wins.