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>> No. 98258 Anonymous
30th January 2024
Tuesday 7:25 am
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So chaps, how has the ULEZ expansion affected you at all? Especially if you live outside of London in the Home Counties? Because from what I hear results are mixed at best and I'm keen to know how much border regions have actually benefited from this in terms of air pollution reduction? I have a hunch that it will mostly be biased toward the centre of the City.

Plus, racist gammonwank aside, there are a lot of people upset with it. Could it be a moneymaking scheme in the long run? What about when all the cars are compliant - will they change the rules? Boris thought of this to begin with and I get the feeling that if the Tories were in, in London, this would get a more critical look. Plus if you think Labour are getting more Tory-esque, that's a reason to do so. Sadiq has been a goodish Mayor but that doesn't mean he's a good guy necessarily.

What do you think? Coming here to ask because Twitter is full of sanctimonious Rik types and the usual array of angry gammons venting at each other and talking over you. Pic is how I feel after talking to them.
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>> No. 98260 Anonymous
30th January 2024
Tuesday 1:23 pm
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>Could it be a moneymaking scheme in the long run?

The income from ULEZ charges and fines all go straight to TfL and only make up about 2% of their income. If it was just about making money, it would have been much easier and far less controversial to just increase tube fares by a few pence.

95% of vehicles in London are already ULEZ compliant, because the rules really aren't especially strict; any petrol car made after 2006 or any diesel made after 2015 is compliant. Nearly all affected vehicles are diesels. ULEZ revenues are declining rapidly, partly because of the natural turnover of cars reaching the end of their useful life and partly because people can just sell their old diesel to someone outside London and buy a similarly-priced petrol car.

ULEZ alone has had a small but significant impact on air quality, mainly because of the relatively small number of vehicles that are affected. It has to be seen as part of a broader package of measures - bus and taxi upgrades, action on wood burning, loads of boring stuff involving industrial plant and boilers - that taken together have had an undeniable and massive impact on air quality in London.

Looking at the protesters, there seems to be a huge overlap with the anti-lockdown/antivax/climate denial/15 minute cities crowd. There's a cohort of middle-aged Facebook users who, for various reasons, have become very paranoid. They're annoyed about some or other government policy, they go on Facebook to moan about it and are persuaded that it's actually just a hoax perpetrated by them to control the masses. Once they've bought in to one conspiracy theory, they seem to start collecting them like Pokemon. On one level it's understandable that people have lost trust in politics, but it's still startling how quickly people can make the leap from "I don't like being told to wear a mask" to "they are engaged in a secret global conspiracy to eradicate humanity". It's also depressingly predictable that they often seems to be a transparent euphemism for "Jews".
>> No. 98283 Anonymous
1st February 2024
Thursday 8:30 pm
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>>98260 I appreciate the time you've put in here. Thanks.

Do you have a source on that 2% income and the few pence increase?

On the other hand fares in the last year went up 5.9% on average, and with the most popular trip of Brixton to Oxford Circus at £2.80 to £2.97, and with 594486 journeys per year (at least in 2022) that adds up to £101,062.62; crude figures but if you look at all these here taken from the link below and do the arithmetic it adds up quick, and those are just the most popular journeys.

Basically I'm saying it doesn't need to be much of a moneymaker now.

But I'm talkng about the long run, as in once all cars are compliant, what next? Will they get rid of it or find something else to make money off,, say the battery's production origins the pollutants involved in production and safety, for example? It's not implausible that they could do that

What is the small but significant impact ULEZ has had on the air pollution? I'm all ears. And yes, I can't stand that lot. I have very strong views about the lockdown from a civil liberties perspective but those guys are just surface level morons. I had the jab and it was fine. I didn't grow a second head under my armpit, the liars... I'm from Essex. Already got one there!
>> No. 98284 Anonymous
1st February 2024
Thursday 8:31 pm
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>>98283

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-most-popular-tube-journeys.html

The link
>> No. 98285 Anonymous
1st February 2024
Thursday 9:16 pm
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>>98283

In 2022/23, the ULEZ generated £224m. There was a big peak immediately after the previous expansion, followed by a fairly rapid decline. We don't yet have data for the 2023 expansion, but we'd expect a similar pattern. We expect ULEZ revenue to drop to about £100m by the end of next year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65778065

TfL's revenue in the most recent budget was about eight billion quid, forecast to increase to about nine billion. Their financial position in recent years has been complicated and volatile, mainly because the pandemic massively reduced passenger numbers - they were expecting around £5bn in fare revenue in 20/21, but because of the pandemic took less than £2bn. The post-pandemic recovery in passenger numbers has happened more slowly than anticipated, in part due to industrial action. Passenger revenue was still down on pre-pandemic levels in 22/23, but they expect to top £5bn for this FY. 5.9% was a big fare increase in absolute terms, but of course that's against a backdrop of very high inflation and lower-than-normal passenger numbers.

https://board.tfl.gov.uk/documents/s19826/TfL%20Budget%202023-24.pdf

A number of scientific papers have been published on the impacts of ULEZ, based on air quality monitoring data across London. Air quality has quite dramatically improved in London over a fairly short space of time, particularly NOx emissions. There's some disagreement about how much of the improvement can be attributed directly to ULEZ, but everyone agrees that ULEZ has had an impact. A similar picture emerges in other European cities that have implemented LEZ schemes - it's not enough on its own, but it does make a difference. We've also seen a reduction in hospitalisations due to conditions like COPD and asthma within the ULEZ area.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X22002955

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac30c1
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>> No. 98287 Anonymous
2nd February 2024
Friday 10:57 am
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>>98285 Before I delve into all this, I will say that I don't like the one size fits all approach. People should be allowed to apply for exemptions on an individual basis, imo. They should of course, be required to submit some evidence.

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>> No. 51150 Anonymous
8th October 2013
Tuesday 9:23 pm
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Young adults in England have scored among the lowest results in the industrialised world in international literacy and numeracy tests.

A major study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows how England's 16 to 24-year-olds are falling behind their Asian and European counterparts. England is 22nd for literacy and 21st for numeracy out of 24 countries.

Unlike other developed countries, the study also showed that young people in England are no better at these tests than older people, in the 55 to 65 age range. When this is weighted with other factors, such as the socio-economic background of people taking the test, it shows that England is the only country in the survey where results are going backwards - with the older cohort better than the younger.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-24433320

Cue lots of finger pointing and nothing changing.
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>> No. 97913 Anonymous
12th September 2023
Tuesday 10:56 am
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>>97910

An ex of mine was a peripatetic lecturer. There are some unbelievably shit degrees being taught in this country and I think it's entirely fair to call them a rip-off. Charging a barely literate teenager nine grand a year for four contact hours a week is a vulgar parody of higher education. The students don't benefit, the lecturers are on zero-hours contracts that barely meet the minimum wage, but the senior administrators are doing very nicely indeed.

IMO the government deserve a great deal of blame for systematically neglecting further education. They talk a good game when it comes to promoting vocational education, but there's no money behind it. FE colleges are effectively being forced to move away from teaching vocational subjects, because they just can't afford it - they get less funding and have much higher costs.
>> No. 97914 Anonymous
12th September 2023
Tuesday 1:26 pm
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>Didn't even realise someone with three Es could go to uni.
Probably works out cheaper than buying when you get there.
>> No. 98237 Anonymous
29th December 2023
Friday 1:22 pm
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>James Daly has the smallest majority in Great Britain. The Conservative MP scraped to victory in Bury North in 2019 winning only 105 more votes than his Labour rival James Frith. He has a fair claim to being the most endangered Tory in the country. But today as he faces the fight of his political life, Mr Daly is not afraid to tell it as he sees it even if it means describing some of his own constituents as “crap”.

>“When you think about the family it’s about stability,” the MP said as he explained his political philosophy to i. “Most of the kids who struggle in Bury are the products of crap parents and so what do we do to try to address that issue? On the left it would just be we’ll throw money at this and hope something sticks, somebody like me thinks about this more fundamentally.”

>As a member of the New Conservatives, the right wing parliamentary group of about 20 Tory MPs, Mr Daly has his own brand of “common sense” politics and “social attitudes to life”. “New Conservatives get a bad rap,” he says. “I think New Conservatives represent very much working class conservatism. We’re not a strange right-wing sect. It’s just people who want to give people the best chance to succeed and thrive in life.

>Mr Daly says politicians need to be “brave enough” to articulate views like his opinion on “crap parents”. But he also implies there should be limits to such plain speaking. On Mr Savile, he says the “challenge for Jimmy” in becoming “a mainstream politician” would be to “come away from being this person who can say what he wants”. But the MP adds, “he’s great with people”. And that’s where he argues Labour and its leader fall short because “Keir Starmer ain’t gonna inspire people”.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/crap-parents-why-children-struggle-tories-most-endangered-mp-2817474
>> No. 98238 Anonymous
29th December 2023
Friday 1:48 pm
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>>98237
So does he ever share the results of this fundamental thinking of his?
>> No. 98239 Anonymous
29th December 2023
Friday 1:51 pm
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>>98237

Fundamentally it's hard to disagree with the idea that bad kids are raised by crap parents. I mean, stands to reason. He's not making a groundbreaking insight there, he's just stating the bloody obvious. I suspect however, that he has thought very little about the rational follow up question of why crap parents are crap parents to begin with.

He makes what might be a valid point that Labour would just throw money at it, but you also notice he doesn't actually propose any solution at all himself. If he's so concerned about stability in families, I might point out that the way the system works under the Tories still encourages benny scrounger mums to boot out the dad and become single parents.

Anyway who cares what this numpty thinks, him and those like him likely never going to be an MP again.

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>> No. 97970 Anonymous
4th October 2023
Wednesday 6:32 pm
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This man is going to become leader of the Tory party after they lose the general election and it's going to be fucking awesome.
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>> No. 98078 Anonymous
11th November 2023
Saturday 1:13 pm
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>>98077

Don't think he's woken up yet.
>> No. 98079 Anonymous
11th November 2023
Saturday 5:20 pm
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If he's still sleeping one of us is going to have to do a welfare check.
>> No. 98088 Anonymous
12th November 2023
Sunday 2:17 am
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I've run out of television shows to watch so I've followed in my senile uncle's footsteps and have resorted to politics as a source of entertainment.

Did Nige ever give a proper reason for standing down as UKIP leader after Brexit? Surely if he truly cared about it, he would've stayed on as leader to keep exerting pressure and influence on the tories?
>> No. 98089 Anonymous
12th November 2023
Sunday 3:09 am
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>>98088
He wanted to retire as his job was done rather than overstay his welcome. This feels pretty reasonable if you ask me, in 2016 it all seemed so bloody simple didn't it. His one-issue platform had achieved victory and it increasingly came up in interviews of the period that he was liable to retire even if it went the other way as he regretted losing his private life.

But then he got pulled back in after it immediately fell into chaos and UKIP needed a leader. Then he realised the party had gone from the BNP for rich people to regular BNP. Honestly despite his hints I don't think he'll seriously run for leader and the establishment end of the party would never allow it for obvious reasons. At least with Corbyn he was technically part of the Labour party and nobody thought he'd win until it was too late.
>> No. 98118 Anonymous
13th November 2023
Monday 10:44 pm
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I follow Ukip on facebook, it's hilariously endearing how they keep banging on about how they can win, and never mention that pretty much every time they lose their deposit.

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>> No. 92282 Anonymous
12th February 2021
Friday 8:11 pm
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Perhaps the problem with Labour wasn't actually Jeremy Corbyn?
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>> No. 97897 Anonymous
1st August 2023
Tuesday 2:06 pm
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There's no possible ulterior motive for Sunak going laughably pro-motorist or expanding North Sea drilling.
>> No. 97898 Anonymous
1st August 2023
Tuesday 3:05 pm
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North Sea drilling expansion has been in the pipeline since Truss. Remember when we collectively shit ourselves last winter?

>laughably pro-motorist

I think he's trying to use the ULEZ victory as a angle to show he has an electoral chance. Call me a conspiracy theorist though.
>> No. 97899 Anonymous
1st August 2023
Tuesday 11:43 pm
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Can someone get Keir to nail his trousers to the mast on scrapping the temporary VAT rise once he definitely gets in? At least it's something tangible rather than all penises and oil.
>> No. 97907 Anonymous
4th September 2023
Monday 3:00 pm
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Angela Raynor has been named Shadow Minister for Told-No-by-the-Treasury into Labour's reshuffle.
>> No. 97908 Anonymous
4th September 2023
Monday 3:24 pm
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Good to see the Kendall mint cake is coming back.

>>97907
I know Lisa Nandy is a thicko but stripping her of levelling up must be especially painful given it's her whole image.

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>> No. 97364 Anonymous
11th December 2022
Sunday 12:52 pm
97364 STRIKES RANT THREAD. GET IT OFF YER CHEST
>Nurses union strike 'may be halted'.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63931904

Well, maybe it should go ahead. If they're anything like my local nurses, which change the dressing over my surgery wound but don't clean the scum left by the medical tape from the last one, despite the wound being INFECTED, then maybe they can go on strike and bloody well stay there. The NHS might become more efficient, especially if I'm waiting at the other end of the protest with a flamethrower >:( Private practices are no better. There is something in the British character that seeks to do the barest minimum possible and just generally be gormless shits unless there's a chance to importune, bully or shoot someone, especially traffic wardens.
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>> No. 97568 Anonymous
14th March 2023
Tuesday 3:11 pm
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>>97567
Take a guitar and sing a song like Lisa Simpson.
>> No. 97569 Anonymous
14th March 2023
Tuesday 3:47 pm
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>>97567

>What exactly am I supposed to do when I join a picket line? Do I just stand around awkwardly, occasionally shouting some pre-approved lines and waving a sign menacingly?

Basically, yeah. In theory you're there to discourage people from crossing the picket line and going in to work, but in practice you're mostly there to be seen by the general public. Your union will almost certainly send a rep down to hand out banners and make sure that no-one does anything illegal.
>> No. 97732 Anonymous
4th June 2023
Sunday 11:37 pm
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>Ministers have made a breakthrough in their talks with civil servants over pay after backing down to offer officials in less senior roles a one-off payment of £1,500 to help with the cost of living.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/02/uk-ministers-back-down-and-offer-civil-servants-1500-to-end-pay-row

How does a one-off 'cost of living payment' of £1,500 stop the effects of inflation outpacing wages?
>> No. 97733 Anonymous
5th June 2023
Monday 3:33 am
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>>97732
Every day a deal is delayed is a day when those workers are without the pay rise that should have already been agreed and implemented by now. If this helps cement a deal sooner rather than later, then they're going to start receiving the agreed pay sooner rather than later. This deal should have been agreed in time to be paid in April. We are now into June, and there's a possibility that it's already too late to get a deal signed off in time to hit June payroll. Obviously it doesn't do anything about "sticky" inflation (i.e. prices for some goods subject to crisis inflation not returning to pre-crisis levels), but at the same time back pay received in September doesn't help people today.
>> No. 97902 Anonymous
31st August 2023
Thursday 4:55 pm
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Junior doctors and consultants are going out on the 20th of September and the 2nd to 4th of October. Try not to die.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66674058

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>> No. 51753 Anonymous
11th November 2013
Monday 11:24 pm
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Switzerland will hold a vote on whether to introduce a basic income for all adults, in a further sign of growing public activism over pay inequality since the financial crisis. A grassroots committee is calling for all adults in Switzerland to receive an unconditional income of 2,500 Swiss francs ($2,800) per month from the state, with the aim of providing a financial safety net for the population.

Under Swiss law, citizens can organize popular initiatives that allow the channeling of public anger into direct political action. The country usually holds several referenda a year. In March, Swiss voters backed some of the world's strictest controls on executive pay, forcing public companies to give shareholders a binding vote on compensation. A separate proposal to limit monthly executive pay to no more than what the company's lowest-paid staff earn in a year, the so-called 1:12 initiative, faces a popular vote on November 24.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004

http://www.businessinsider.com/behind-the-swiss-unconditional-income-iniative-2013-10

I'm not entirely sure what to make of these. I reckong that if they tried the 1:12 thing over here then the lowest paid members of staff in some large organisations would end up being made redundant and replaced with contractors.
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>> No. 93684 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 10:52 pm
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>>93683
Surely if wage stagnation would arrest inflation then the past 10 years would've proved it, if not been part of a long-trend of multi-decadal deflation. Unless it's all been counteracted by the government giving free money to people with connections and property 'investors'. Oh dear I've made myself angry.
>> No. 93685 Anonymous
17th May 2021
Monday 11:31 pm
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>>93678

Theoretically, maybe, but it presents a huge co-ordination problem. One of the key catalysts of the Winter of Discontent was the imposition of pay increase controls in an attempt to limit inflation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent#Incomes_policy
>> No. 96081 Anonymous
28th June 2022
Tuesday 3:13 pm
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Wales basic income: Pilot will give care leavers £19,000 a year

A £20m experiment offering a basic income to young people leaving care will launch in Wales on Friday.

From 1 July, the Welsh government will offer about 500 18-year-olds £19,200 a year before tax - no strings attached.

One care leaver said the cash would be a "safety blanket" and others hope it will help give the 18-year-olds a good start.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-61950546
>> No. 97730 Anonymous
4th June 2023
Sunday 10:19 pm
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>A universal basic income of £1,600 a month is to be trialled in England for the first time in a pilot programme.

>Thirty people will be paid a lump sum without conditions each month for two years and will be observed to understand the effects on their lives. Two places in England have been selected for the micro pilot scheme: central Jarrow, in north-east England, and East Finchley, in north London.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/04/universal-basic-income-of-1600-pounds-a-month-to-be-trialled-in-england
>> No. 97731 Anonymous
4th June 2023
Sunday 11:25 pm
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>East Finchley

I'd be interested to see what happens if people in the multimillion pound mansions win. Let's hope their new wealth doesn't send them off the deep end.

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>> No. 97570 Anonymous
21st March 2023
Tuesday 3:52 pm
97570 American Civil War II: The Squeakquel
With the amount of airtime ol' Leatherface is still getting on both sides of the pond and the number of Republicans that still think he should run for the big chair in 2024 (over half, last I looked) it feels the implosion of the States are closer now than ever before.

It could just be a continuation of the smouldering anti-ultraliberalism and leftist infighting we've seen since Trump first rallied the alt-right from relative obscurity though. A big "nothingburger" as the, well, burgers like to say. His arrest could also be the closure that the whole thing needs so that we can go back our regular coverage of Windsor drama and knife crime.

What do you lot reckon?
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>> No. 97605 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 2:19 pm
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Just wait until you hear how they got Al Capone.
>> No. 97606 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 2:28 pm
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>>97605
From what I get, he paid hush money to a porn star because they had a shag while he was married. Morally reprehensible, sure (no surprise from an amoral populist grifter) but I wouldn't think it was illegal.

Is this just a weird quirk of American law?
>> No. 97607 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 2:31 pm
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>>97606
That's not illegal. He recorded it as a business expense. Falsifying business records is not legal.
>> No. 97608 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 2:45 pm
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>>97607
Got it, thanks for clarifying.
>> No. 97609 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 2:49 pm
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>Elizabeth Holmes was indicted June 2018 and sentenced to over a decade in November 2022. She's still not seen prison.


Part of the reason for that was that she was pregnant at the time of sentencing. It's at a judge's discretion to postpone the beginning of a person's sentence in cases like that.

In Victorian Britain, there was a turn of phrase called Pleading the Belly, where women could hope for leniency if they were pregnant during a trial. It didn't normally end up reducing their sentence, but they could be allowed to give birth to their child prior to starting their prison term.

In Elizabeth Holmes' case, on the other hand, it's increasingly looking like she and her lawyers are using it to stall the judiciary system and buy her lawyers time to get the sentence overturned after all.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/17/1164380277/elizabeth-holmes-theranos-prison-sentence-delay-appeal

Which makes her not a hint less dishonest than during her time at Theranos where she was defrauding investors out of billions.

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>> No. 97482 Anonymous
4th February 2023
Saturday 12:14 am
97482 ITZ
GIANT CHINESE PAPER LANTERN INVADES US AIRSPACE "Accidentally"
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>> No. 97523 Anonymous
12th February 2023
Sunday 9:43 pm
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>The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
>The incident on Sunday is the third time in as many days that an unidentified high-altitude object has been shot down by American fighter jets.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64620064

Someone mind checking in with a nuclear missile silo to make sure they're alright. Just a hunch.
>> No. 97524 Anonymous
13th February 2023
Monday 11:31 am
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>>97520
They're almost certainly monitoring the War Thunder forums.
>> No. 97525 Anonymous
13th February 2023
Monday 7:03 pm
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The yanks have shot down four objects, they don't know what those objects are, they can't ascertain how they were remaining airborne and they might have lost track of where the debris landed.

2033 is continuing on a streak of being totally normal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-64627059
>> No. 97526 Anonymous
13th February 2023
Monday 7:12 pm
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>He also adds the US government knows what the balloon was was doing, where it was going and emphasises how much larger it was - capable of carrying three school buses and flying at a much-higher altitude.
Damn they could fly higher than three school buses that's incredible.
>> No. 97527 Anonymous
13th February 2023
Monday 7:28 pm
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What?

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>> No. 97425 Anonymous
22nd January 2023
Sunday 1:05 am
97425 Why are trans people in this country so bloody stupid?
I know I'm going to get flak for this, so let me say that I have respect for trans people and think their gender is valid. But I think they're also utterly daft. It's not because they're trans, but they're Poms.

One minute, everyone from the Tories to Labour are not just authoritarian, and transphobic, but outright fascist because they sat on the fence on banning trans conversion therapy, and proposed a 'pandemic safety bill' that would've increased censorship and surveillance in protests.

Next, the same people propose a bill that would extend censorship and surveillance to Facebook and even private chats, ban any company that won't comply (like Putin did!) but because it protects trans people from harmful misgendering content it's fine and there's no way this could be used against them.

Oh, and Peter Tatchell and Stephen Fry are mysigynist fascists for speaking out against it, because of jingoism and sublte antisemitism.

Trans Poms, make your mind up ffs. Could someone please explain to me this massive cognitive dissonance?
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>> No. 97459 Anonymous
24th January 2023
Tuesday 5:18 pm
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>>97458

Should have done it for the OP image alone.
>> No. 97460 Anonymous
24th January 2023
Tuesday 5:48 pm
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I just thought it was Robert Llewellyn with a bad hangover.
>> No. 97461 Anonymous
24th January 2023
Tuesday 7:13 pm
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I thought it was a member of Blue Man Group.
>> No. 97466 Anonymous
25th January 2023
Wednesday 7:59 pm
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OP's pic is quite clearly white. Nice racebait, Red Man Group psyop.
>> No. 97467 Anonymous
26th January 2023
Thursday 2:14 am
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>> No. 97345 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 7:05 pm
97345 How do you solve a problem like the Lords?
So it's more or less universally acknowledged that the House of Lords needs reform, but the barriers to actually doing it are large and numerous, to the point that even after decades of agreeing it needs to be done we still haven't capped its size or abolished hereditary peers.

General discussion and mental masturbation thread about it and what we think we could do better.
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>> No. 97354 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 6:58 am
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The best constitution you can have is something like New Zealand's, where you have a unitary state with a single-chamber parliament elected by proportional representation, in a Westminster system where what parliament says goes, with a monarchy (but not really, just a spokesman who stops you needing a stupid president) and with a bunch of nice democratic window dressing like a bill of rights which makes you feel safe and progressive but which isn't really enforceable, so you don't ever get into the tedious judicial-vs-legislative battles and constitutional debates that define the US, and you don't get the stupid upper house games you see here or in Australia.
It's the gold standard, it's as close to perfect in every single way as you can get... except that it would fall apart the moment you took the nice agreeable New Zealand politicians out and put our coterie of Daily Mail pandering aspiring human rights abusers in.
>> No. 97355 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 2:43 pm
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This could perhaps be a sneaky tactic by Labour to invoke Brexit without actually bringing it up. Rather than risking infuriating everyone by going all Daily Express about the B-word, Keir Starmer can plant the seeds in the same people's minds by talking about the Enemies of the People. I don't know of anything else the House of Lords is famous for, certainly among people who don't follow politics.

Also, if you pass a law in the House of Commons to abolish the House of Lords, surely that will need to go into that self-same House of Lords for approval. I don't think they will approve. So K-Starmz can really say whatever the fuck he wants.
>> No. 97365 Anonymous
11th December 2022
Sunday 1:00 pm
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>>97352 Keir used to be an effective lawyer for free speech (in so much as it actually exists in our Sceptic Isle) and ever since he got a peerage got really shit. It reflects so many Labour voters as well. I mean it's fun to call the Tories The Fash but I'll believe it for real when Labour types who call them Fash for a pandemic safety bill that stops protests don't do an immediate U-turn and cheer for an online 'safety' bill by the same people, just because Keir likes it.
>> No. 97370 Anonymous
11th December 2022
Sunday 8:01 pm
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>>97365

British governments in general tend to lean authoritarian to appease the hand-wringing Chealsea Tractor school run Mumsnet arsehole brigade.

That said, remember the twilight years of Blair/Brown's Labour, where we were all worried about the privacy invasion of CCTV cameras and ID cards? It all seems quite quaint in retrospect considering what has transpired over the last decade.
>> No. 97373 Anonymous
12th December 2022
Monday 3:58 am
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>>97370 You talkin' about the right wing Farmer Palmers or the left wing Malcolm and Cressida types?

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>> No. 97325 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 2:47 pm
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This man is going to be the next President of the US and it's going to be fucking awesome.
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>> No. 97334 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 5:37 pm
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>>97332

>None of this is new, he's been at this for years

He's had poorly-managed bipolar disorder for years. He clearly does believe what he's saying, but it's impossible to say whether or not that's symptomatic of his mental illness because he has been very ill for a long time. The "real" Kanye, the medicated and stable Kanye is just a distant memory at this point.

It's shameful that so many people are wheeling out Kanye in a transparently exploitative effort to drum up views, but it's also shameful that people aren't recognising the severity of his illness. He isn't in control of his words or actions, he doesn't have the capacity to make decisions in his own interests and any British court would immediately recognise that fact.
>> No. 97335 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 6:19 pm
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It feels like we've been here before.
>> No. 97336 Anonymous
2nd December 2022
Friday 6:22 pm
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>>97335

Britney never endorsed the Third Reich to be fair, but she did have the haircut.
>> No. 97344 Anonymous
7th December 2022
Wednesday 7:00 pm
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>>97334
>He's had poorly-managed bipolar disorder for years. He clearly does believe what he's saying, but it's impossible to say whether or not that's symptomatic of his mental illness because he has been very ill for a long time. The "real" Kanye, the medicated and stable Kanye is just a distant memory at this point.

Also consider that he's been living a decadent life of a multi-millionaire for years and his only real exposure to the world at large is crowds of baying fans and media telling him how amazing he is, and scores of companies lining up to use his name for marketing. That can lead people to become pretty detached from reality even if they're sane to begin with.
>> No. 97356 Anonymous
8th December 2022
Thursday 4:40 pm
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>>97336

You can get a person out of the trailer park...

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>> No. 97229 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 5:56 am
97229 O9A (glowie) Grooming Rings on Discord
https://medium.com/@voidandnil/xxtarlitdoc2-d0d0d51966f9
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>> No. 97232 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 10:21 am
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>>97231
He's probably a /pol/fag from the other place and does what his sub-monkey brain assumes is right, despite all evidence to the contrary.
>> No. 97243 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 7:09 pm
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>>97230
I think it might be a Parker pentagram.
>> No. 97257 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 9:36 pm
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Article pulled, no explanation given. Here's an archived copy.
https://archive.ph/ZTU4e
>> No. 97259 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 9:46 pm
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>>97257
It's just some gothy weeb drama. Taking drugs, self-harming and fucking about with some vague chaos magick. I don't think anyone here gives a shit.
>> No. 97260 Anonymous
26th October 2022
Wednesday 9:54 pm
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>>97243
I thought it was some occult Star Trek thingy.

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>> No. 90725 Anonymous
6th October 2020
Tuesday 5:49 pm
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>Mr Johnson also channeled the spirit of Thatcher's 1980s revolution by pledging to save the dream of home ownership for a new generation, with the government underwriting 95 per cent mortgages for around two million first-time buyers.

>The government has yet to give details, but it seems some of the 'stress test' rules imposed on banks after the 2008 financial crisis could be relaxed to facilitate long-term fixed rate mortgages at 95 per cent of a property's value. The government could instead accept some of the risk through a guarantee scheme - although this would leave the taxpayer on the hook for potentially huge sums.

https://www.If I post a link to this website again I will be banned..co.uk/news/article-8810043/Boris-Johnson-sets-vision-post-Covid-Britain.html

Let's overheat the housing market further by softening the measures brought in as a result of the financial crisis. What could possibly go wrong?
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>> No. 96676 Anonymous
31st August 2022
Wednesday 5:47 pm
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No. This scheme will absolutely get you blacklisted by every estate agent and prevent you from ever buying a house, but a mortgage in principle only requires a soft check and you can even get several at once if you like. It's all automated so you aren't even inconveniencing the banks by applying for them all.
>> No. 96963 Anonymous
12th October 2022
Wednesday 11:05 pm
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Paying a Mortgage in Britain Is No Longer Cheaper Than Renting

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-10/paying-a-mortgage-in-britain-is-no-longer-cheaper-than-renting
>> No. 96964 Anonymous
12th October 2022
Wednesday 11:15 pm
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Sorry. It's me (and possibly otherlad's) fault for finally getting on the property ladder. This is just how it always is with me.

It's just like when I was in school, as soon as my year did our GCSEs and left, they built a big new computer lab with loads of top of the line workstations. Or like when I was trying to start a business as a young lad, and as soon as we found a suitable property to use, the council re-zoned that land so our use case would be illegal.

Everything either gets better once I am no longer there, or it goes to shit as soon as I arrive. I could probably end capitalism by becoming a banker.
>> No. 96965 Anonymous
13th October 2022
Thursday 8:05 am
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>>96963

What does this mean for BTL landlords? Less incentive for renting means more availability of housing for normals? Or will Johnny Foreigner instead buy up houses as a means of parking money in a safe country? Is the English Property Market even a safe place to park money now with Bumder Truss blowing up the economy with her mini budget blunderbuss?
>> No. 96966 Anonymous
13th October 2022
Thursday 11:19 am
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The knock-on effect of a slowing of house sales has been a significant surge in demand in the rental market, alongside a fall in landlord instructions for new lettings.

“Near-term expectations point to a further strong growth in rental prices over the coming three months,” said RICS.

Increasing rental rates will help landlords when they come to remortgage their properties, but as many as 30% of those with buy-to-let loans are likely to fail their renewal test, according to a report by credit rating agency Moody’s on Wednesday.

In order to refinance, buy-to-let mortgage holders have to meet affordability criteria, based on a minimum interest coverage ratio (ICR), that soaring interest rates makes more difficult to meet.

“A 4% increase in interest rates by the end of 2023 would push 30% of buy-to-let loans below their minimum ICR requirement,” said Carmen Brunetti Llavona, analyst at Moody’s Investor Services.


https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/13/uks-13-year-housing-market-boom-to-end-in-2023-surveyors-predict

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>> No. 95589 Anonymous
14th April 2022
Thursday 7:43 pm
95589 PRITI AT IT AGAIN
So the genius plan to stop asylum seekers applying to live in the UK crossing into the UK illegally and dangerously when there are so many safe and legal routes they could take instead, we are going to pay a country halfway across the world to take them off our hands and dump them in one of their huge overcrowded refugee camps, from which people are already desperately trying to get out of and find routes back to Europe.

What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61110237
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>> No. 95631 Anonymous
24th April 2022
Sunday 1:32 am
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>>95602 Perhaps you could ask your MP and then let us know? Maybe you could also ask why our Home Secretary is a cross between Indira Modi and Rita Repulsa?
>> No. 96511 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 12:44 pm
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Refugees pour into Ireland as Dublin blames Britain’s Rwanda policy

Britain’s Rwanda policy has triggered a surge in refugees arriving in Ireland, Dublin said on Saturday, in a seeming admission that the deal to deport asylum seekers to central Africa is deterring people from coming to the UK.

Senior figures in the coalition government, including the Irish prime minister, have blamed Britain’s new migration measures for an increase in people seeking asylum in Ireland instead, causing an accommodation crisis that has forced Ukrainians to be put in tents.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/07/23/refugees-pour-ireland-dublin-blames-britains-rwanda-policy/
>> No. 96520 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 10:30 pm
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>>96511
If someone who has debased themselves by creating an account on the Telegraph's site could screencap this I'd be interested in seeing just how much bullshit is in this article.
>> No. 96523 Anonymous
24th July 2022
Sunday 10:42 pm
96523 Refugees pour into Ireland as Dublin blames Britain’s Rwanda policy
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An increase in people seeking asylum in Ireland is causing an accommodation crisis that has forced Ukrainians to be put in tents

Britain’s Rwanda policy has triggered a surge in refugees arriving in Ireland, Dublin said on Saturday, in a seeming admission that the deal to deport asylum seekers to central Africa is deterring people from coming to the UK.

Senior figures in the coalition government, including the Irish prime minister, have blamed Britain’s new migration measures for an increase in people seeking asylum in Ireland instead, causing an accommodation crisis that has forced Ukrainians to be put in tents.

Home Secretary Priti Patel’s Rwanda policy aims to deport illegal immigrants to the African country in a bid to deter people making dangerous and unlawful Channel crossings to Britain.

The Home Office refused to comment on the accusations by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Eamon Ryan, leader of the Greens, one of his two coalition partners.

“Recent policy changes in other jurisdictions, including the UK, as the Taoiseach referred to, may be creating the perception of a less welcoming immigration and international protection environment, leading to secondary movements of applicants,” an Irish government spokesman told The Telegraph.

“One can see, and maybe sense that that policy announcement, which I thought was a wrong policy announcement by the UK, a shocking sort of initiative in my view, to be doing some agreement with Rwanda, clearly may have motivated people utilising the Common Travel Area to come into the Republic – yes, I think it is one of a number of factors,” Mr Martin said last week.

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>> No. 96542 Anonymous
25th July 2022
Monday 3:28 pm
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>>96523
you can also just push the site through an archiver
https://archive.ph/js1zA

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