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  1. Gulliver Foyle

    Cont: General UK Politics IV - Rishi reprise

    I thought that the "forty new hospitals" thing was four actual new hospitals, about ten hospital enlargements and about 26 remedial works to existing hospitals to stop them falling down. And the second and third categories were already approved Continued from...
  2. Mojo

    Cont: General UK Politics III - Dumb and Dumber

    Most of the ones that were implemented as UK legislation will have been Statutory Instruments made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 so won’t generally have needed a vote. And EU regulations generally had direct effect without needing national implementation. continued...
  3. Darat

    Cont: General UK politics [2]

    Interesting first hand accounts but this caught my eye “….. I’m desperate for the Met to regain its reputation as one of the most trustworthy forces in the world…..” When was that halcyon time? The Met was corrupt top to bottom in the 60s, 70s and into 80s, then we got institutional racism...
  4. J

    Post Brexit UK, what do UKians think about immigration policy towards EU citizens

    Like the Title says, what is the UKian perspective regarding the difficulties apparently being experienced by EU citizens, being held in Detention etc?
  5. Airfix

    The Lords

    Should we keep the Lords or replace them with an elected senate ?
  6. Darat

    General UK politics

    Starting this thread as there are quite few policies and stuff happening that aren’t just Covid politics or Brexit. One I want to raise is the rail system. The UK government has now extended “support” for the rail operators to 18 months in total: Rail franchises axed as help for train firms...
  7. Darat

    Johnson government loses commons vote

    Despite having a huge majority, despite it being something that has been attacked from all parties, despite there being no political advantage Johnson went ahead with a vote about how harrassment and so on in the commons is to be handled. And lost...
  8. Darat

    Changes to pattern of abortions in the UK

    Abortion rate in England and Wales hits five-year high https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/17/abortion-rate-england-and-wales-five-year-high The headline is the slight increase in overall numbers but I think the changing in patterns is the more interesting information. So older women...
  9. GlennB

    10 Downing St.'s latest advisor -

    Andrew Sabisky, appointed, it seems, by Dominic Cummings. Some of Sabisky's stated views: “...“One way to get around the problems of unplanned pregnancies, creating a permanent underclass, would be to legally enforce universal uptake of long-term contraception at the onset of puberty,” "...
  10. The Don

    UK Government - Bailing out an airline

    The UK government is proposing to use government money to bail out a failing regional airline Flybe. They're also proposing to review air duty - which if they get rid of it would be a clear reversal of ecological policy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51117885 Flybe's competitors aren't...
  11. B

    5 starting questions about prorogation

    This most recent article about labour sent me into a spiral of questions appropriate for its own thread. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/26/brexit-shutting-down-parliament-gravest-abuse-of-power-in-living-memory-legal-advice I get that the queen gets to decree prorogue and the...
  12. Darat

    General election bribes

    Was thinking about what else Johnson could come up with as his bribes for when the next GE is called. Given the news today I reckon it's going to be cancellation of HS2 and the third runway at Heathrow. Anyone else want to bet on what else ?
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  13. Childlike Empress

    Theresa's troll factory smears Putin by association with antisemitic Anglo nutjobs

    So the UK state-sponsored "Integrity Initiative" has been caught spreading disinformation about Corbyn and others, insinuating that they work as tools for the leader of the free world, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
  14. ProBonoShill

    Anti-Semitism within the British Labour Party?

    This is a little disturbing considering the recent murders in Pittsburgh. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/u-k-labour-party-anti-semitism-hate-crimes-investigation-1.4888813
  15. L

    What has happened to the UK

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/26/right-wing-activist-tommy-robinson-reportedly-jailed-after-filming-outside-child-grooming-trial.html
  16. Darat

    Another UK child abuse cover up report released

    The report into the decades of abuse in a school has been released https://www.iicsa.org.uk/news/independent-inquiry-publishes-rochdale-report Makes it clear the various reports were absolutely correct, confirming decades long rumours. Many people knew of this abuse, I heard rumours of Smith’s...
  17. G

    Young Labour vote for UK to leave NATO

    It appears the youthful side of the party is even more bonkers than Corbyn and McDonnell. From article: Young Labour demanded the UK ditch the military alliance after voting to support a motion called “support Corbyn and internationalism, oppose Trump and NATO”. The motion said: “From Guyana...
  18. Information Analyst

    Charlie Gard, the Pope, and Trump

    For the benefit of non-UK posters, the story of baby Charlie Gard has been a regular but increasingly weary feature of the news here for the last nine months or so. Born with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, he has been subject to a protracted legal battle between the parents - who want to...
  19. Darat

    Conservatives lifting austerity for state funded benefits?

    Hopefully this is a sign of things to come: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40412343 An 8% raise won't bring benefits to where they would have been if they been raised in line with inflation over the "austerity" years but it will be a start.
  20. applecorped

    Corbyn wants to seize rich people's homes

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/15/jeremy-corbyn-empty-homes-owned-rich-should-requisitioned-grenfell/ Jeremy Corbyn has called for the empty homes of rich people in Kensington to be seized for Grenfell Tower residents who have been made homeless by the fire.
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