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- Comment on Count Binface: My Clacton Victory Speech! 2 days ago:
In his downtime I think he should consider touring with Angine de Poitrine. They’re black and white/white and black, he’s grey, they’re all aliens; it would be a mash up made in heaven.
- Comment on Tributes paid to Jason Arday after ex-Cambridge professor found dead 2 days ago:
Hopefully he’ll be kicked out of the university of Ghent, just like he was at Cambridge.
- Comment on One million sign petition to keep PC Harper's killers in jail 2 days ago:
youtube.com/watch?v=sqBAjGVruKw
Your link, without tracking.
- Comment on Reform UK unveils massive £50bn welfare overhaul to scrap PIP 2 days ago:
You’re exactly right.
Writing in The Telegraph, Mr Jenrick said: “We will not pretend this is painless.
He won’t be the one feeling the pain, he is openly admitting that he is setting out to cause pain to British citizens.
- Comment on The Telegraph killed Jason Arday 2 days ago:
They’re so evil
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 2 days ago:
I think there were other institutions that he had been associated with that also cleared him. Cambridge will likely only look at work he’s done while with them, and defer to Liverpool or others for work he did elsewhere.
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 2 days ago:
even if this poor guy did plagiarise blatantly
From what I understand, he didn’t.
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 2 days ago:
Most of the investigations into his plagiarism, the ones that have concluded, determined that he did not plagiarise.
- Comment on Jason Arday, former Cambridge university professor, found dead after resigning following plagiarism row 2 days ago:
Did he actually get found guilty of plagiarism? I thought most if not all investigations put him in the clear for that.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’ 3 days ago:
Tbf, generally the UK on the whole is much more accepting than a lot of other places. There are noisy and growing fringe movements, but the quiet majority of Brits just want everyone to queue up and get on with it.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’ 3 days ago:
Lmfaooo fucking Chabad…
Literally one of the main reasons Russian invade Ukraine in 2022 was to prevent the Ukrainian civil trial against the former owners of PrivatBank, who had been laundering shit tons of Russian money, and much of it went to Chabad charities in the UK, Europe, and south-east US (particularly Delaware). They bought up loads of land. There were other trials in Delaware and the UK, these were postponed in lieu of the Ukrainian trial (where discovery would surely uncover more details than anywhere else) - billed to be the trial of the year, if not the decade - which was scheduled for summer 2022.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’ 3 days ago:
Relations between the UK and Israel have been increasingly strained in recent months, especially since Andy Burnham took over in No 10. Shortly before becoming prime minister, he apologised for Labour’s initial response to Israel’s military action in Gaza, saying the party “didn’t get it right” and needed to “do better” under his leadership, signalling a significant shift in the UK’s approach to the Middle East.
This line literally made me tilt my head. The Guardian can’t make up their mind whether Burnham is the reason the relationship with Israel is strained, or whether Barnham becoming PM is going to make it better.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 3 days ago:
I had a second fucking alert a few hours later.
- Comment on Banksy works cost public almost £150,000 1 week ago:
And they each charge ten grand a day.
- Comment on Banksy works cost public almost £150,000 1 week ago:
on the other hand, it reveals their irresponsibility: They are willing to spend such a large sum to silence criticism of their actions
It’s even worse than that, they basically poured the public purse into their favourite contractors’ hands, all so they could then pin liability for that expense onto the artist who criticised them.
£50k to clean a small section of wall. Even with it being a listed building and even if they couldn’t figure out how to clean it off right away, that’s a ridiculous figure for what likely amounted to little more than 2 skilled workers over 3 days.
- Comment on Banksy works cost public almost £150,000 1 week ago:
Hey now, they only paid £50k.
- Comment on Banksy works cost public almost £150,000 1 week ago:
Seeing as the BBC is basically trying to sensationalise this, I’ll break down the figures.
- First, it’s across two works, not just the protestor one but the statue with the guy marching holding a flag that’s blowing in his face.
- For the judge & protestor the government spent £50k trying to remove it, and £35k in overtime and securtity.
- For the flag guy the government spent £60k on fencing and security.
£95k of their “£150k” (actually £145k, I can only assume they rounded up to sensationalise as it’s literally the same character count) was spent on security, which no one and nothing called for. £50k on cleaning is also crazy, even for a listed building.
The government’s careless spending should not be blamed on activists criticising them.
- Comment on Welsh Man Arrested After Standing on a Hospital Roof Dressed as the Grim Reaper 1 week ago:
The UK is full of these public decency laws that have a lot of vagueness to them, meaning they can be broadly applied even in situations where they shouldn’t.
The ridiculous thing is that “making a youtube video” or something similar could potentially be considered a “reasonable excuse”. Probably easier to get away with it if you’re a network TV show, at least that’s generally been the case over the last few decades…
- Comment on Only 1 out of over 740,000 UK Parliament petitions has ever directly succeeded in changing government policy 1 week ago:
Sack all the politicians, they fail at the key part of their jobs: representing the voters. Instead, they represent the biggest donors to the party LLC.
Let everyone vote on everything an MP votes on themselves, directly. We don’t need a “representative” to travel to Westminster and vote on our behalf, communication technology makes them obsolete.
- Comment on Only 1 out of over 740,000 UK Parliament petitions has ever directly succeeded in changing government policy 1 week ago:
The original criticism of the .gov petitions was that it was a distraction from meaningful social action that forced the government to change.
- Comment on [Video] British granny in a wheelchair escorted by a gang of police officers for supporting Palestine Action, risking a 14 year prison sentence for supporting terrorism. 2 weeks ago:
Lmfao the irony of posting an imgur link about the UK to a UK forum, when imgur blocks itself from the UK because it was doing shady financial shit.
- Comment on Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists over bank damage 3 weeks ago:
Get your head out your arse and realise the UK invented cucking for Israel.
- Comment on Police declare 'major incident' as wind change increases Cairngorms wildfire risk 3 weeks ago:
I get that, but I don’t see that as what’s happening here. It sounds more like you have a bunch of noisy locals moaning about things, but the BBC is just reporting that, not really amplifying it. If anything, the subtext of the article is that the complaints are generally baseless.
Swinney continued: "The wind has changed direction overnight, which means the track of the fire has altered once again and the threat to Nethy Bridge has reduced, for the moment at least.
So the wind changed towards Nethy Bridge, creating a high threat warranting an evacuation. Then the wind changed again and the risk went down. Sounds more like an ever-evolving situation than anything negligent by those in charge of dealing with it. Even when they start quoting the local Tory MP and their moans, it’s immediately contrasted with detailed explanations from the people actually fighting the fires. Hardly “omit[ting] information that would establish one side’s claims as baseless.”
Good journalism shouldn’t explicitly tell you that one side of the argument is bullshit, as that would be expressing an opinion, not publishing the news. This article presents enough information that the reader should be able to come to that conclusion themselves.
- Comment on Police declare 'major incident' as wind change increases Cairngorms wildfire risk 3 weeks ago:
That article reads like a bunch of quotes from locals. The BBC hardly injected any opinion into any of it.
- Comment on No rent control for you 3 weeks ago:
He gives me eerie Nick Clegg vibes.
- Comment on And still I see no changes 3 weeks ago:
My edit points out that the point of the speech was to assure international relations with southeast Asian countries, you’re reading far too much into it if you’re focusing on Iran, Israel, Palestine, Ukraine or Russia.
- Comment on And still I see no changes 3 weeks ago:
I think the main thing to take home from this is that it’s just a generic speech given to a southeast Asian trade group, it’s not really something that highlights policy or action. The post is reading too much into it, when the point of the speech was international relations with countries in a completely different region of the world.
- Comment on And still I see no changes 3 weeks ago:
You’re the user, but yes Declassified UK is the one who misrepresented the whole thing. Per my edit above.
At least their post included a link to the speech, so readers could decide for themselves.
- Comment on And still I see no changes 3 weeks ago:
Provided an edit, wasn’t quick enough lol
- Comment on And still I see no changes 3 weeks ago:
In this post, a user cherrypicks parts of a speech to push a specific agenda.