TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 3 days ago:
All well and good, but then we’d have a truss-like markets meltdown that drives up the cost of all borrowing and destroys investment.
There’s a reason the government mass seizing industry is only done by banana republics.
We’re better off letting them go bankrupt and letting the government step in as operator of last resort, as the law already lays out.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 3 days ago:
It’s not a wrongful arrest though, she was supporting a proscribed terrorist group, rather than any other legitimate group.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 3 days ago:
I’m sorry that you’re a terrorist-supporting idiot.
Literally kill yourself.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 3 days ago:
No they aren’t. Palestine Action is illegal. Because they’re terrorists. The rest are fine.
- Comment on Ofwat to be abolished as ministers look to create new water regulator 3 days ago:
Probably a good thing that will benefit us.
The problem is, like with most things this government seems to be doing, we won’t feel the benefit for a long time. People are impatient and they want results now.
Whether that’s reasonable or not doesn’t matter. It’s the reality, it affects polling, and will affect the next general election.
Things like this, the planning reforms, the infrastructure spending they’re doing, SureStart 2.0, NHS improvements, green subsidies, etc won’t start to bear fruit until Reform are in, and they’ll benefit from it, only to then tear it all down so the next government inherits the same poisoned chalice this government did last year.
- Comment on Chippie owner given ‘devastating’ £40,000 fine by Home office for allegedly illegal hire 3 days ago:
I swear people just want to be unhappy.
We say we don’t want companies to illegally hire, yet when they do and face the consequences of it, we get stories like this.
We can’t have low fines, otherwise business just treat it as a cost of doing business… I’m sure we’ve all seen stories of big companies knowingly breaking the law and being fined pennies, and things like small companies fly tipping because occasionally being caught works out cheaper than proper waste management.
The onus is on the hiring company to check if the person has all the required paperwork and has a legal right to work.
- Comment on UK strikes deal with private investors to build £38bn Sizewell C nuclear power plant 3 days ago:
That is a staggering price, but unfortunately it’s needed. We can’t keep using gas as a base load forever, and batteries are not ready, we don’t have that kind of capacity.
Costs for nuclear have spiralled because we stopped investing in it a long time ago, and we lost expertise on how to build it. Thanks, Thatcher. Truly you are the gift that keeps on giving.
- Comment on UK government to ban public bodies from paying ransoms to hackers 3 days ago:
One of the many things I’ve seen Labour pass that’s made me think “wait this wasn’t a thing already?!”
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 4 days ago:
NOOO
Stop putting thought into things!
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 4 days ago:
Being an old, white, middle class woman shouldn’t make you above the law.
Supporting a proscribed group when there are dozens of legit pro Palestine groups is obviously a stupid thing to do.
Tankies feel free to downvote ❤️
- Comment on State pension age could rise again after cost of triple lock soars 4 days ago:
We saw how politically unviable it was to take away WFA from those who had money while still preserving it for people who don’t.
Labour completely collapsed in the polls overnight, and have paid an extremely heavy price for it, with the biggest reason stated for the polling drop and sub-par local election results being the WFA changes.
Now imagine scrapping triple-lock.
It simply will not happen. Anybody who says they do it won’t be elected, and anybody who does it without it in their manifesto won’t be elected again.
Not that Labour could pass it even if the leadership wanted to weather that storm. There would be a backbencher revolt the likes of which we’ve never seen before. MPs wouldn’t back something they know will get them ousted.
Sadly it seems the only thing that will put an end to the insanity of triple lock is terms pending a bailout from the IMF.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 4 days ago:
I’ve seen loads of police vans like this. It’s only part of the van and they’re just as recognisable as before IMO.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 4 days ago:
Your post history says you aren’t. Interesting.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 4 days ago:
You’re the psychotic, transphobic moron.
Nobody cares about you or your stupid cunty opinions.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 4 days ago:
So link that, not the high court ruling, dummy.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 4 days ago:
Your proof of the police being right wing is that they arrest people for supporting terrorist groups? Christ on a bike…
- Comment on Two UK pro-Palestine organisations have bank accounts frozen 5 days ago:
Possibly related to them having a donate to Palestine Action button on their website, although they say they removed that after proscription of PA.
Perhaps their account was automatically flagged because of the previous transaction, or something transactions went through after the proscription. I wouldn’t be surprised if the bank was afraid of legal repercussions on their end if they acted as a middle man in funding a proscribed terrorist group.
Regardless, the bank not giving a clear and concrete reason why the funds are frozen is frustrating, and IMO not right. How hard would it have been to say “This account has been flagged as financially supporting Palestine Action. Funds are temporarily frozen pending investigation.” I hate lack of transparency.
- Comment on France’s eight weeks of summer holidays, or England’s six? I’ve done both and know which one I prefer 6 days ago:
I’ve always thought that different regions should stagger holidays a bit more, so that there’s not just a 6-week window where you can book holidays, leaving only the wealthy families able to because of the supply/demand imbalance.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 6 days ago:
It really isn’t.
Police in the UK are generally not right wing. Why would they support people who hate them, slash their numbers, slash their funding, and gave them pay stagnation?
The UK police is not like the US police where Republicans are clearly allied with them.
US brain has hit you hard.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 6 days ago:
High court != Government.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 6 days ago:
You’ll never guess what the ‘L’ in LGBT stands for…
It stands for Lesbian. What is your point?
I’m not the one going against the LGBT community, she is.
I don’t see how you can come to that conclusion given the article.
Did you read it?
Again, I don’t see how you can come to that conclusion about her goals.
??? She doesn’t think Trans people, a part of the LGBT community, exist.
Again, this is jumping to conclusions.
It really isn’t.
True but that doesn’t mean any particular person who is critical of one section of the community is necessarily against the whole community, that doesn’t follow.
It absolutely follows. If you are against Trans people, you are against LGBT.
Firstly wow that took no time at all en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
I’m well aware of what Godwin’s law is. What’s your point, exactly? It’s relevant.
Do you deny that there were Jews in Germany who hated the Jewish community? Yes or no?
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 6 days ago:
You’ll never guess what the ‘T’ in LGBT stands for…
This person is absolutely standing against the LGBT community. She is actively seeking to drive a wedge between LGBT communities and the police, making the entire community less safe in the process, as well as trying to divide people in regards to LGBT issues.
She will happily cut off her nose to spite her face, if it means harming trans people.
And being part of a community doesn’t make you immune from being against the community. There’s plenty of anti-immigration immigrants, there’s homophobic/transphobic/biphobic people in the LGBT community, there were people from colonies who saw their own colonies as barbaric and welcomed white masters, there were Jews in Germany who hated Jews and happily supported Nazis, there are working class people who are disdainful of working class culture.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 6 days ago:
No, they clearly aren’t talking about this ruling or this judge, they are talking about the UK as a whole.
As usual, fuck you UK.
Have a look through their comments and they seem to say it a lot/complain about Brits a fair bit.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 6 days ago:
Then your experience is very, very different to mine.
I think you are gravely mistaken if you think you’d be safer with no police. There is no shortage of people that want to attack LGBT people. If you think they’d leave you alone, think again. Knowing that there’s no police to assist would only embolden them.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 6 days ago:
Instantly jumping to xenophobia over one seemingly bigoted judge seems a bit far. I doubt bigotry is unheard of wherever you’re from.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 6 days ago:
A very US-brained comment.
I’ve attended multiple pride events/marches and I’ve been very glad of police presence. Every year there’s at least one bigot who tries to start a fight with someone on a march, and the police quickly put an end to it.
Even aside from that, it is extremely stupid to want to drive a wedge between police and LGBT people. That will just make people less likely to seek help from police if they’ve been the victim of something, and further emboldens bigots in attacking LGBT people.
We are not the USA. Our police forces are not US police forces.
- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 6 days ago:
A police force has agreed to remove all Pride rainbows and transgender livery from its vehicles following a landmark High Court ruling.
Northumbria Police has also told its officers and staff they cannot attend a Gay Pride march in uniform this weekend, in a move that could set a precedent for other forces.
Northumbria was taken to court by a gender-critical lesbian who said it was wrong for officers to take part in events that promoted gender ideology.
The move comes after Linzi Smith, 34, a gender-critical lesbian from Newcastle, brought a case against Northumbria Constabulary, arguing that it had been wrong to allow uniformed officers to actively participate in an event that promoted gender ideology and was supported by transgender activists.
In his ruling, the judge, Mr Justice Linden, said it was important that police forces were not perceived as taking sides in contentious social debates.
Ffs. Police officers want to support a gay pride event, and a Lesbian woman became so offended by that she raised a court case against them. One that I cannot believe was upheld.
Why are TERFs so emboldened here?
Imagine telling someone this a few decades ago:
“Yeah the police want to support a LGBT pride event and…”
“Wait they what? They want to support it?”
“Yeah, anyway the court ruled against it.”
“Lobbying from an anti-LGBT wing of the clergy, I suppose?”
“Nah, a small group of lesbians.”
- Comment on Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years 1 week ago:
They will not actually spend 4 years in prison, and I imagine you know that. They’ll be let out early, like most prisoners, unless they cause serious trouble in prison.
And destroying a national landmark, then obstructing the course of justice, and being in contempt of court. That more than justifies it.
Maybe all of that is fine to you, but it is not the kind of behaviour that should be encouraged.
Maybe you’re just far from the area, and have an attitude of “who the fuck cares mate, it’s just a tree innit!”, and don’t care about the obstruction or contempt of court part.
Maybe you think it’s just something those stupid working class northerners care about, or maybe that doesn’t enter into your head at all, I don’t know.
Would you feel the same if someone intentionally blew up Stonehenge out of pure malice? Big Ben? The Eiffel tower? The Colosseum? Parthenon? Any other national landmark that a great deal of people care about?
Behaviour like this cannot be given a “you’re a bad boy, a very bad boy indeed. £250 fine and 20 hours of community service”-style punishment.
- Comment on Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years 1 week ago:
You obviously don’t. You were advocating for practically zero punishment for it, and find incessant lying in court to be completely fine too.
- Comment on Two men behind ‘senseless’ felling of Sycamore Gap tree jailed for more than four years 1 week ago:
You should look up some of the messages the court case revealed.
They took joy in making people miserable. They knew targeting a loved cultural landmark would make people angry and miserable, so that’s what they did.
Their motivation was purely to hurt.