Unfortunately. They need red ties now.
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HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•No criminal charges over British woman shot in US during a holidayEnglish2·4 days agoThe UK Tends to warn not ban travel.
We have levels of warning that equate to. You are all on your own if shit happens.
Down to the be very careful to follow rules level the US is currently under.
But proscription of travel only happens in a open we are at war setting. And rarely even then,
The US on the other hand will do it for political disagreements. Like Cuba.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England.English1·5 days agoI asked what they did to cause it. Not why it happened.
IE How did having the Tories in charge. Directly help building companies not build. That was not possible with labour in charge before 2010
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•‘Full of excuses’: families condemn Matt Hancock’s testimony to Covid inquiryEnglish1·5 days agoAs much as I hate to give any Tory the benefit of doubt on anything.
His main argument.
“Nobody has yet provided me with an alternative that was available at the time that would have saved more lives,”
Dose sound like a reasonable question to ask.
This was before the availability of fast testing. And before any nightingale hospitals had been build.
Hospitals were overloaded staff wise. Even with all non urgent care stopped.
Their was a well documented lack of PPE. So hardly possible for the gov to do more to help care homes keep residents more separated.
At the time. Their really dose seems like very little else he could have done.
BUT:
The NHS did have plans and resources for pandemics. plans the Tory party removed support for during austerity.
Not to mention the risk of a pandemic has been a well known one since the mid 1990s. Yet still the Tories considered shutting down the minimal support the NHS had. As a tax saving measure. (Because allowing the Tories to keep low corp and capital gains taxes was the real reason).
Yes the report and HandsonCock never considered this as a cause.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Every year for the last 40 years, France has built more homes per person than England.English21·5 days agoGiven this is total house building. So basically how willing or able private construction companies are to build.
I’d be interested to know exactly what the Tories did to discourage private building.
Personally I’d rather blame the development companies who have been openly accused of limiting building numbers. To increase profits value of properties they do build.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Starmer outlines plan to shift NHS care from hospitals to new health centresEnglish1·5 days agoLikely town halls and or GP offices.
Or leisure centers where local Auth ownership still applies. But not many of those left outside London.
and routinely fucked over Brit
Stop bragging. You will get blamed for your government funded sex life.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•NHS in England told to slash recruitment of overseas-trained medicsEnglish1·5 days agoHonestly. I think the current gov is significantly to the right of Cameron on immigration, disability rights and equality in general.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto UK Politics@feddit.uk•EU blocks Britain’s attempts to join pan-European trading blocEnglish2·5 days ago9 years now post ref. Of UK govs and media arguments.
“The UK should not follow any forign rules”
Hardly surprising the one thing that requires some agreement on unified rules. Every trade agreement ever signed.
Is not something anyone trust the UK on.
It stuns me the % of Brits who seem to fail to understand. Ensuring simplification of products meeting each others rules is the main point of any trade agreement. Taxes and fees. Really represents very little challenge compared to that.
And all the EU trade issues the UK has faced since Brexit. Relate to the cost and complexity Brits and their customers face proving products are made to the very rules, Brexit twonks keep complaining about and wanting to remove.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Starmer outlines plan to shift NHS care from hospitals to new health centresEnglish4·5 days agoWow a potentially positive move for a change. Depending how it’s funded. And how the huge staff shortages (enhanced by new NHS immigration rule). Limit it.
But for 40 year the NHS has had centralisation into big city hospitals. Increasing the cost difficulty and CO2 footprint of mobility limited travelers to get help.
Moving more specialist care into local community centers. Would be a huge positive.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto UK Politics@feddit.uk•John McDonnell: Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour governmentEnglish3·5 days agopeople in the higher tax brackets
Translation: wage slaves.
Anyone in a income tax bracket is not the people the left is talking about. That is the effect of billionaires owned media distorting the conversation. And as a slave to that media High wage earners fall for it and distort the conversation every time.
Over the last 40 years. Post 79. The wealthy have taken a much larger % of GDP growth while paying much less often 0 tax.
They do this in many ways. But most often by running all their income through multiple corporations. Then taking money out as personal debt. Look at how musk funded his corporate purchases. They use the asset value of big corps. Tho gain such low interest. It is way lower then any tax bracket.
The media then argues fixing this prevents mum and pop businesses competing. While those very businesses are disappearing into debt scams like this. Purchasing the competition. Then pulling huge dept income from it before selling off all assets.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto Science@lemmy.ml•Scientists can 'play God' by building human DNA from scratchEnglish21·5 days agoPretty sure some guy gets paid to play Thor.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•NHS in England told to slash recruitment of overseas-trained medicsEnglish5·6 days agoThis is just insane. Since the Windrush. The NHS has had a high dependency on immigration. Mainly due to our own lower pay of staff. Many qualified British medical staff can get higher paying work elsewhere. Both foreign and non NHS UK jobs. This is why multiple governments from both parties haver always offered NHS training and employment as a way to encourage immigration from lower paying nations.
If the gov does not have the funding (wish to raise taxes). To pay NHS staff and UK care staff a wage that competes with higher paying jobs in the UK or aboard. This will directly lead to a collapse of the NHS. With ) benifit to the UK.
Except Maybe gaining privatisation of the NHS. Exactly like the Tories have been trying for decades.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto UK Rail and Trains@feddit.uk•Royal train to be cut in Palace cost-saving measureEnglish1·6 days agoAgreed. But not really practical for this task now.
Last mile has always been an issue. But hugely more so for any Public figure. Loved or hated. When you consider the density of traffic etc.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto UK Rail and Trains@feddit.uk•Royal train to be cut in Palace cost-saving measureEnglish2·6 days agoWrong timeline.
Train has been replaced with other transport. Including high use of helicopters. Over the last several years. But more so since ERII death.
So now it is just a cost sink to store and maintain.
That said. If we ignore shutting the family down. (Honestly we are just now starting to see a majority support for that.) So any effort to do so in the past. Would have failed or been undemocratic. But most of us older folks expected more support for removal post ERII death then we actually see now.
So accepting the job/roll existed.
There are not many ways to safely transport such figures around efficiently. Even if trains were still used. The last mile issue is expanded hugely for public figures. Both due to the huge increase in urban traffic. And lack of smaller stations post Beaching.
That said. I sorta like the image of Charles III strapped to multiple drones. Paradise PD Like.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto UK Politics@feddit.uk•Labour rebels offered further concession ahead of key welfare voteEnglish2·6 days agoNot to mention. The concession is basically. Wait for a report. With 0 requirement to follow the results of that report.
So you can fuck over the support for disabled independence. But must wait a while. If the MPs considered this in anyway a requirement. They would wait for the report before passing the law.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Weight loss jabs study begins after reports of pancreas issuesEnglish1·12 days agoPancreatitis not cancer.
It is inflammation. Can be minor(short term pain and gastric issue), But when acute can lead to death. Mainly as it seriously harm other organs and has a systemic effect on the body when the pancreas fails.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•Weight loss jabs study begins after reports of pancreas issuesEnglish1·12 days agoThe side-effects would need to be pretty extreme
Pancreatitis ranges from minor to life threatening.
It can become systemic harming multiple organs.
So idepending on what this study shows when done. A high number of severe cases. Could def be worse for the NHS then obesity. Considering 1 in 4 adults meet the obesity Def now. And 1 in 5 cases of pancreatitis are classed as severe. Mass roll out could be a disaster if the study shows high numbers suffer this effect.
HumanPenguin@feddit.ukto United Kingdom@feddit.uk•UK to host Donald Trump for full state visit this year, says Buckingham PalaceEnglish41·12 days agoUnfortunately the new nukes that fit to the f35 we agreed to buy from the US.
Require US permission to use. So we are far from reducing our reliance on them.
This is absurd.
Yes Palestine Action broke the law by damaging insanely expensive property. And like any protest that dose this. The right or wrong of the cause has no effect on the legal requirements of the actions.
CND, Greenpeace and many many other protest organisations have also commited expensive crimes over the decades.
When a government starts deciding what citizens can or cannot support rather the how. It is no different to banning book or speech.