blackn1ght
@blackn1ght@feddit.uk
- Comment on Hospital parking hike in Essex only adds stress, patients say 10 hours ago:
This reminds me, I’ve got two parking charges from taking my dad to the hospital 🙁 I paid and displayed the blue badge but didn’t choose the correct option when paying, which has cost me £140.
- Submitted 1 day ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Fibre Tycoon Game Lets You Play as an Alternative UK Broadband Network - ISPreview UK 3 days ago:
a surprising amount of depth from a fist look
That’s what she said
- Comment on Blow to NHS as Royal Mail raises prices for bulk users by a third 3 days ago:
No I don’t think so, it’s for bulk senders. I’m guessing the badge made it too thick for a standard 2c post?
- Comment on Why don’t Gen Z buy rounds in the pub? 4 days ago:
I’m a millenial but on the very rare occassion that I go to the pub with a group, I hate buying rounds. Not because of cost, but because I’m a slow drinker and everyone is finished by the time I’ve drunk half a pint. Let me just enjoy my own drink at a pace I want to drink it.
- Comment on Blow to NHS as Royal Mail raises prices for bulk users by a third 4 days ago:
Well there’s email / NHS App, where letters get published digitally. If they do anything like my bank where you can opt-out of paper communcations then that would save some £ by not having to send mail to people that don’t want it. There’s obviously going to be a portion of the demographics that would prefer to receive physical mail, but they’ll be declining over time.
There’s also 3rd party companies that will handle mail (pick up, processing) and put it into the RM network at the end for a cheaper price than RM do. Not sure if the NHS are using that already though.
- 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 1 week ago:
No I don’t because that’s not how our democracy works. We don’t vote directly for the PM, we vote in a local representitive and they vote for the leader of the party. It’s either a misundestanding or just being dishonest to say that they’re unelected. They were elected by their constitutency and elected again by whatever mechanism the party uses.
- 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 1 week ago:
Both Starmer and Burnham were elected.
- Comment on Airline pilot skywrites ‘I’m bored’ over England-Wales border 2 weeks ago:
Airline pilot kind of suggests that it was done in a jet airliner, but it was a tiny single prop plane. Still impressive!
- Comment on People smuggler convicted in France found by BBC living in UK and seeking asylum 4 weeks ago:
Immigration officers have told the BBC that since the UK left the European Union, it has become more difficult to check criminal records from some other countries.
This should really be the headline.
- Comment on Lloyds Bank Blocks Account of Leftwing News Outlet the Canary 4 weeks ago:
It they’re not explaining why then they’ve likely fallen fowl off anti money laundering laws. Maybe they’ve had some transactions with sanctioned accounts?
- Comment on Asylum seekers to be billed £10k to cover own support once they start earning money 4 weeks ago:
will allow the Home Office to recover costs from adults who have been housed or who have received financial support while waiting on their asylum claim.
They’re already getting accommodation and financial support. I’m not entirely sure what the point of this is, on the grand scheme of things I can’t imagine these costs making a big dent in the finances of the country, and we’d probably spend a good chunk of money administrating and trying to recover this money.
Maybe it’s more about trying to discourage asylum seekers from coming here in the first place, or filtering out those who are genuinely in need.
- Bedford crash occurred after train passed red signal and was not stopped, investigators believewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Russian frigate fires warning shots at British yacht in Channel – reports 1 month ago:
I think this is being made out to be a bigger deal than it is. Any military vessel of any nation would warn off vessels that approach too closely and don’t respond.
- Comment on Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan da Cunha, 9th May 2026 2 months ago:
I wonder what the people do day to day. I can’t even imagine how much it must suck to be a kid there.
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on Wylfa power station can begin that promises 8,000 new jobs 3 months ago:
Ah yeah. It’s what came directly from the beeb so I blame them.
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 3 months ago:
Why wouldn’t Israel have a free spy plane fly for them?
I’m sure Israel can spare a single drone to fly over Lebanon, they don’t need to use anyone else to do that for them.
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 3 months ago:
That and breaking into a military base and damaing hardware.
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 3 months ago:
The UK has been criticising Israel for attacking Lebanon though.
Like I said, if Israel wanted recon they can just use their own drones. Seems like people are jumping to the conclusion that we’re gathering intel for Israel rather than collecting our own Intel to get an idea of what’s going on.
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 3 months ago:
Israel would use their own drones. Why use the RAF? Seems more likely it’s the UK gathering intel on what Israel is doing.
- Comment on Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK 3 months ago:
It’s likely that most acts decent enough to headline are already fully booked for the summer.
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 59 comments
- Better Connected: tap-and-go travel across trains, trams and buses announced in government's new transport strategywww.gov.uk ↗Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on Warning food prices are set to spike in the UK due to Iran war 3 months ago:
It’s a shame every country affected couldn’t sue the US and Israel for compensation.
- Comment on World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public 4 months ago:
This is pretty sick. Now we need a review of all the best pubs on the route.
- Comment on [Video] British journalist Steve Sweeney bombed by Israel while reporting in Lebanon 4 months ago:
Imgur blocks traffic from the UK, so many of us can’t see this without being on a VPN and switching to a different country.
@RubberDuck@lemmy.world Any chance you can use a different host?
- Submitted 4 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on Car park firm NCP collapses with nearly 700 jobs at risk 4 months ago:
Not great that people there’s 700 going to be out of a job, but I won’t shed a tear for the company. Their prices were always outrageous.