mannycalavera
@mannycalavera@feddit.uk
- Comment on UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says | Brexit 1 day ago:
Prime Minister Burnham has already ruled this out. Time to vote him out and elect a PM with the balls to rejoin.
- Comment on MP called up the goonsquad to terrorize his own constituent at 4AM for criticizing Israel 3 days ago:
Defund Peter Kyle.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Poor men, taking the fall for Keir’s fire bombing campaign. When will they catch him!
- Comment on UK poised to water down 2030 EV sales targets after industry and union pressure 5 days ago:
A charging suggestion that it’s as ubiquitous as a petrol pump and just as quick.
- Comment on Starmer admits he must ‘turn things around’ as US adds to pressure over defence spending 1 week ago:
The government doesn’t get in line… they are the front desk.
- Comment on [Opinion] Why the Israeli real-estate expo in London must be cancelled 1 week ago:
As Palestinians, we refuse to see our stolen land traded in a city that was the centre of our people’s dispossession for more than a century
And yet… it will be.
This is the way of British society. If you’re brown, back of the line 😞.
- Comment on Anti-immigration protesters in Belfast set bins and vehicles on fire amid unrest over knife attack 1 week ago:
I know the answer to this but feel I need to ask anyway… What’s the logic here in firebombing a house on a “loyalist flag” laden street with a mother and little girls inside?
In completely unrelated news, the footage this morning on Sky News showed this house then panned back to the main road which was relatively undamaged apart from a burnt out bus. In the background, clearly visible, was this graffiti sprayed on a kebab shop.
Completely horrific what happened to the knife attack victim and it is right the offender is facing justice, but oh my lord it must be hard for non white people to exist in Northern Ireland. What a sad tragic place.
- Comment on UK companies opting to hire temporary workers over permanent staff, recruitment firms say 1 week ago:
The unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to 5% in the three months to March, while wage growth has slowed, according to official figures.
Unexpectedly? Brother please, everyone was saying this after the rise to employers NI. How was this unexpected?
- Comment on Teen rapists spared jail partly because of intellectual limitations, judge said 2 weeks ago:
I mean… I understand the nuance of the case better, but Jesus Fucking Christ.
- Comment on YSK: "Exchange for Change" will be a bottle buy-back scheme in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland aiming for a October 2027 launch 2 weeks ago:
A long overdue scheme. It’s been around parts of Europe for twenty plus years. The best part is that if you’re a lazy cunt and discard your bottle then it means someone else can profit. Hopefully it’ll also keep the streets a little cleaner?
- Comment on The Neo-Nazi and Far-Right Coalition that Converged on Southampton Over Henry Nowak’s Murder 2 weeks ago:
Streeting is still an MP, so still has a job. Andy has all his hopes on this election.
- Comment on Shabana Mahmood warns of ‘dangerous undercurrent’ after murder of Henry Nowak 2 weeks ago:
Why is she stirring up so much cunt hate?
- Comment on The disaster of Brexit is a warning against simple solutions to hard problems 2 weeks ago:
What a simple solution!
Oh… shit. 🫠
- Comment on The disaster of Brexit is a warning against simple solutions to hard problems 2 weeks ago:
It might be the right solution, but it wasn’t simple. Look how constantly divided the country was throughout that time culminating in the UK leaving.
If it were simple the referendum would have been a no brainer and the red wall Labour voters wouldn’t have sided with UKIP and the Tories in pulling us out. But there’s a lot more nuances and complications that make it not simple.
- Comment on Sikhs 'demonised' after murder, says community leader 2 weeks ago:
Steady on mate. Why the personal attacks?
I’m against traditions made hundreds of years ago today that make no sense in modern society. Why do you need to carry a knife around? That’s why I brought up the other example as one where religious traditions can change - and should.
Presumably you are against people wearing crosses, tattoos of significant people or events in somebodies life, football shirts, or any other symbol of something to care about.
There’s no need to straw man an argument. What’s the point of that?
- Comment on Sikhs 'demonised' after murder, says community leader 2 weeks ago:
The whole idea of religion is fucking dumb to me. Why do you need to carry a knife around and then justify it as being part of your religion? Stupid.
Different religion, granted, but this is religious “way of living” that is absolutely fucking dumb and thankfully dropped years ago.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)
a chiefly historical Hindu practice in which a widow burns alive on her deceased husband’s funeral pyre
Sometimes you have to accept that traditions dreamt up hundreds of years ago are fucking stupid and should be abandoned.
- Comment on Only three-quarters of first class mail delivered on time 2 weeks ago:
I’d say about 90 - 95% of the physical post I get (that isn’t a package delivery) is shit I didn’t ask for or want. Junk mail in other words. Goes straight into the paper recycling. What a humongous waste of resources.
- Comment on Sikhs 'demonised' after murder, says community leader 2 weeks ago:
Firstly fuck Elon Musk.
But secondly… these ancient religious rules are fucking dumb. My religion requires me to carry a weapon 🔪. Why should that override common sense law around carrying weapons? This isn’t the ancient times. We’re (supposed to be) a civilised country.
- Comment on Nicola Sturgeon: ‘I should not be held responsible for the wrongdoing of men’ 3 weeks ago:
I mean to be fair, Nicola… You were the leader of a political party during which time your husband stole hundreds of thousands of pounds that benefited your lifestyles. I think it’s fair that the press prints your face in reference to this story.
- Comment on We know what former SNP chief Peter Murrell bought with £400,000 of embezzled funds. What I’d like to know is why 3 weeks ago:
What I’d like to know is why
Because when it’s not your own money… why not? He basically YOLO’d but got caught.
- Comment on How privatisation is ruining your life and putting the UK out of step with the modern world 3 weeks ago:
The government is on board with this system. With a revolving door between regulators and regulated, and corporate lobbying, the interests of investors prevail over those of users. Welfare policy must now be filtered through the private sector lens.
I think this is the problem. A shitty regulator with poor governance. Not necessarily privatisation in general.
- Comment on Is it the public's job to police Britain's roads? 3 weeks ago:
It might also deter them from being arseholes in the future.
Press D for Doubt.
- Comment on Energy bills set to rise as millions struggle with cost of living 3 weeks ago:
It’s the circle of news:
- Energy bills to rise as cost of living bites.
- Journalist killed by IDF for no reason.
- Andrew Windsor done another nonce thing.
- Government to reset EU relationship.
- Trump threatens tariff increases until tributes met.
- Starmer to maybe, possibly, kinda, almost do something.
- Farage distances himself from suitcase of cash left at his constituency office.
- Economy doing sweet fuck all.
- Energy bills to rise as cost of living bites.
- Comment on UK needs to urgently install air conditioning in schools and care homes, climate campaigners say 3 weeks ago:
What about internal shutters?
- Comment on I investigated BBC capture by trans activists. It was worse than I thought 3 weeks ago:
What should we use instead?
- Comment on wat 3 weeks ago:
This is a truly great explanation. One worthy of Feynman. Physics degree?
- Comment on I investigated BBC capture by trans activists. It was worse than I thought 3 weeks ago:
Ooo whats the goss on archive?
- Comment on I investigated BBC capture by trans activists. It was worse than I thought 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on A year after nationalisation, is South Western Railway delivering? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not as offensive as the train liveries you’ve posted. But over here anything painted in the Union Jack (Flag) is derided as offensive and ridiculed. Even kid’s clothing. You have to take the commentary with a pinch of salt.
- Comment on Starmer urges TNT to make Champions League final free-to-air 3 weeks ago:
Sir Keith: Team, I’m getting hammered by this local election stuff…what do poor people like that can win me favour?
Team: Fairness in society and upwards economic mobility?
Sir Keith: No. Football. That’s right. I’ll say something about football. Up the blues, or reds. I meant reds. Up the reds.
