Armand1
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- Comment on New bathroom guidance for trans people ‘the kind of policy you’d see in Trump’s America’, campaigners say 10 hours ago:
It’s unacceptable, but I guarantee that the Right (Reform, Conservatives and Labour Leadership) will lap it up. Say that it brings such “clarity” as they have been saying since the Supreme Court Judgement.
- Comment on Unrecyclable packaging like this 1 day ago:
Yeah as I said these are the plastic ones, not dissolvable. Those starch ones are fairly neat.
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- Comment on Energy regulator Ofgem announces 13% increase for energy bills 2 days ago:
Under the Marginal Pricing model, energy suppliers set prices based on the highest-cost energy source used, which in the UK is gas. Even though energy suppliers may buy cheaper renewable sources first, they must also rely on pricier fossil fuels to meet demand. Therefore, the final price paid by consumers reflects the cost of the most expensive source used.
Feels like we should abolish this system. Not sure why it even exists, as to me the price should be based on the cost. As things stand we are just giving free money to energy companies and worse petrol oligarchs.
I recognize that we will likely always need some fossil fuel energy in the UK to pick up the slack, but why are the savings of investing in renewables not making their way to the consumer?
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- Comment on Energy regulator Ofgem announces 13% increase for energy bills 3 days ago:
Why is it that electricity prices keep going up when the cost of generating it should be going down from renewables?
Gas prices I can maybe understand. But electricity?
- Comment on JP Morgan boss threatens to axe £3bn UK investment if Labour lurches to the left with Starmer replacement 3 days ago:
Don’t care. JP Morgan can fuck off.
Also I’m pretty sure that theh won’t actually cancel over something so minor.
- Comment on 'I've given up eating hot meals to pay for equipment to keep my son alive' 4 days ago:
That’s why we’re cutting disability benefits
- Conservatives, (Forced) Labour
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Oblivion-ass conversation
- Comment on Man jailed for shouting death threats at Jews in London 4 days ago:
London has seen a spate of antisemitic attacks in recent months, including the stabbing of two Jewish men
Hmmm… I don’t like how those stabbings are being used here. Especially given what happened in context.
- Comment on Liverpool parade crash victim refused PIP despite life-changing injuries 5 days ago:
Thank you for taking the feedback 🙂. Yeah sorry I didn’t realise PIP was not explained. As others have said it’s Personal Independence Payment and it’s basically an extra allowance of benefits for disabled people to account for the extra costs they experience in their lives.
At the moment it’s very hard to get and many mental health conditions have recently been excluded by the (Forced) Labour government to “get people back to work”, even though that doesn’t make any sense.
- Comment on Liverpool parade crash victim refused PIP despite life-changing injuries 5 days ago:
While I get the joke, I think it’s a little insensitive.
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- Comment on River Wye granted rights in UK first that could help in fight against pollution 6 days ago:
That’s good. I went for a walk in the Wye valley in Wales many years back and I’m happy it’s getting some protection.
Rivers in Ecuador, Canada and New Zealand have been granted legal personhood in recent years, and the House of Lords is considering a proposal by the former leader of the Green party, Natalie Bennett, to change nature’s legal status from objects, property and resources to subjects with inherent rights.
I’m not sure why you’d need rivers to have personhood to be protected. I guess that might just be a result of weird legal frameworks.
Last year, the Ouse, which runs through East and West Sussex, became the first river in the country to have its rights formally recognised.
- Comment on Single-sex toilets must exclude transgender people, says EHRC 1 week ago:
I reviewed the original guidance and while this is a miniscule bit better, its still basically saying “ban trans people from single-sex spaces”.
They’re saying that businesses and whole hospital wings will need to be built just to house them, but of course there is no legal requirement to do so and no funding from the government will ever be provided for this.
What theh really want is for trans people to vanish from public life.
“The supreme court was very clear … if you are providing separate toilets for women and men, that has to be on the basis of biological sex.”
Wrong. An obvious lie.
I know someone who has researched this extremely deeply, and they will tell you that the EHRC has been infested with transphobes since around 2020. Most non-transphobic staff has left since then, leaving a thoroughly rotten organization.
An FOI they filed found that while they communicated thousands of times with anti-trans hate groups like Sex Matters since 2020, they didn’t record a single set of meeting minutes with trans advocacy groups since then. Not once.
The current goal for some trans activists is to get the EHRC to lose its accreditation as a human rights organisation with GANRI, and there’s plenty enough evidence to do that. I just hope it will happen in time before this guidance becomes law.
- Comment on Labour lost FOUR times as many voters to Greens as to Reform 1 week ago:
We need more people to drop Labour, as although more Labour defectors went to Greens, significantly more councilors elected were Reform. That’s presumably because the vote was split.
(The above numbers may be a little out of date)
- Comment on We’ve arrived 1 week ago:
Context?
- Comment on UK ministers accused of weakening legal protections for torture victims 2 weeks ago:
Disgusting.
Labour under Kier Starmer is so concerned with appealing to far-right voters that he is happy to kneecap human rights in the process.
Get. Them. Out.
- Comment on Parkrun and other sports bodies face legal action over transgender inclusion 2 weeks ago:
Davies’ Women’s Sports Union, alongside the conservative advocacy group ADF International, has now issued letters to 10 organisations. They contend that these bodies are in breach of the law and are failing to adequately protect women and girls by permitting male-born competitors to participate in their events.
parkrun allows competitors to identify by gender rather than sex.
The webpage states: “We feel this is aligned with us as a health and wellbeing charity that provides non-competitive, socially-focused physical activity, and allows people to identify in the way they feel most appropriate and comfortable.”
These pressure groups obviously have no leg to stand on, and are blatant transphobes. Go fuck yourselves bigots.
- Comment on Record numbers of UK renters crowdfunding to cover bills 2 weeks ago:
When the people’s survival is based on charity and not state welfare, that’s a failed society.
- Comment on Who is James Murray, the new health secretary replacing Wes Streeting? 2 weeks ago:
TLDR; He’s a spineless, brown-nosed man who stands for nothing.
He developed a reputation as a low-maintenance operator who leadership rarely had to worry about.
Grain of salt as this is from the Telegraph, but:
In an interview with Talk TV in 2022, Mr Murray, who was then a shadow treasury minister, was repeatedly asked to define what a woman was.
He replied: “I believe that trans women are women.”
Sources told The Telegraph that Mr Murray’s view has since changed and that he is committed to protecting single-sex spaces in the health service.
- Comment on Neo-Nazi obsessed teen jailed for trying to kill Kurdish man in Bristol with axe 2 weeks ago:
It’s very sad that people in extreme poverty are being abused by the far-right. Somehow convinced that their problems originate from immigrants and not the lack of welfare.
- Comment on Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds. 2 weeks ago:
From what I’ve heard a lot of the time they dont even necessarily believe any of it. It’s just grifting for money.
Some random man in Bangladesh or something.
Other times it could be genuine far right agitators trying to get Reform or other parties elected.
- Comment on Reform councillor suspended after calling Nazis visionaries and Brits ‘fat ugly and poorly dressed’ 2 weeks ago:
They really can barely keep it in.
- Comment on Palestine Action Activists to Be Sentenced As Terrorists in Move Kept Secret From Jury and Public 2 weeks ago:
The judge, in fact the whole process was obviously biased against the defendents. How exactly is this a fair trial? The whole thing stinks to the high heavens.
- Comment on Birmingham jury fails to convict pro-Palestine activist accused of supporting Hamas 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny how mf will say “Israel has a right to defend itself” but when someone says the same about Palestine that makes you a terrorist supporter 🤔
- Comment on What’s all the hubbub about this Marks guy he seems pretty chill 2 weeks ago:
Bourgeoisie (perks of being French I guess)
- Comment on Working on my politics-free lemmy experience, what words should I add next? 2 weeks ago:
If you need time away from these topics for mental health, then this is can be a good idea. I wish you all the best.
If you have other, quality news sources that’s fine too.
If it’s just because it’s “annoying” and you do not want to engage, then bear in mind that you are simply burying your head in the sand. Politics are not simply words, and will affect you and you’re loved ones lives and rights.
The leopards come for everyone’s faces eventually.
- Comment on Doctors’ union drops opposition to Cass review of NHS gender healthcare 2 weeks ago:
Prof David Strain, the chair of the BMA’s board of science, who led the review, said the Cass report’s methodology was robust and the BMA was no longer opposed to any of its 32 recommendations.
You mean the widley ridiculed Cass report? The one that everyone who supports trans rights says is terrible?
At the very best, it is a mixed bag. At worst, it’s a disgrace. No one in their right mind calls it “robust”. I think the union leaders need firing.
A good video on the matter: youtu.be/zI57lFn_vWk
- Comment on [Video] Politician Ed Davey spoke at the UK March Against Antisemitism. He got booed and heckled because he had accused Israel of committing genocide multiple times over the past two years. 2 weeks ago:
Cant view it because imgur, but if it’s like you describe perhaps either:
- The marches are not about antisemitism.
- The organizers to do some housecleaning and clear the Zionists out of their marches.
