9 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.

people 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.

Not 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.

From the left maybe. But this is exactly what Tories did in 2010. Then gained a majority.

A huge part of society just refuses to notice disabled people in society.

From recent memory. 3.6m successfully claim pip. So 2.5 % of population.

But retired or under 18s are not pip elegable DLA still applied there. So above 5% of working population is more likely.

But most PIP claimsents are working. Often because PIP helps covers the every day cost of adaptions they need to live and travel independently. Holding a job down without it would be hard for all but the high paid. And even for them. These benefits reduce the cost to society of being 100% accessable. So removing them is a false economy. Many will need greater support without it. Leading to higher costs for the NHS and other (mainly council run) services.

As we saw very very clearly when the Tories did the same thing creating PIP to make claims for DLA harder for working age adults.

Cool.

Personally I find it easier to picture % of GDP then number. And find exact number less informative,

But can understand others may see things differently.

So to add. GDP is the total of all final goods and services purchased in the UK.

So for every £20 you spend on living costs. £1 is expected to go to defence.

For a better comparison. Under £4 goes on VAT as many items are at lower rates.

Either way. It’s a pretty huge % of government revenue.

£192 billion is also what the DHSC expects to spend on the NHS for 2024-25.

Same goes for all of us living in the UK. Given the actions of our own government.

Yeah. That is a bad sign for gov stability. And may well lead to more MPs removing backing. Most whips have enough support to make excuses for resigning. When it is openly in opposition to a gov policy. That hints at cabinet being way less supportive than the media is told.

Reduce competition for the lobbying cheese.

Here is an idea. Cats as parliamentary members.

MPs as rat catchers.

Most of the MPs. Are able to safely handle automatic doors.

While cats are at least as useful as most MP in parliament.

To be clear. Britain is not feeling guilt for Germany doing it.

But we knew the genocide was happening. But our gov and intelligence agencies, kept it secret to hide our breaking of the German encryption techniques. So many Brits since learning this post WW2. Recognise the only reason Germany lost the war. And the majority of Europe is not now under Nazi control. It is that the Brits sacrificed/refused to save 6m Jews to save Europe. The UK could have bombed the gas chambers. Putting them out of action. Bombed the correct tracks, shipping families to work camps and those chambers. But instead ignored that intelligence rather than perform actions that would have made it clear to Germany they could understand their communications.

Kiss trumps ass.

More to the point, the US as a whole has an obsession with Israel. While all NATO nations have genuine reason not to anger them.

Not only does the US spend more on its military than everyone else combined.

But a huge % of what the western nations do spend. Depends on US infer structure and cooperation to work. And as dumb as it sounds. NATO nations are only now realising that is dangerous.

Citizens in NATO nations may express questions about backing Israel. But the governments know, and disagreement with the US is always a risk. Way way more so now Trump has embedded so much support in the US military ranks.

Honestly it is to be expected. “International law” really is an over statement. “A collection of treaties between nations that depends entirely on the politics of the time.” Is a mouthful but the most accurate definition.

As soon as the US disagrees with the rest of the world. One nation that spends more on it’s military then the rest of the world combined.

No other nation is really able or willing to challenge them on the subject. Even when the economic and soft power of the US is falling. As it clearly has been lately. There military power means any nation disagreeing with them. Will do so without much fanfare.

Exactly the same comments made in the 60s. To keep the abortion ban then.

It’s utter rubbish. Because this is happening. All changing the law dose is mean those become less unsafe when people feel able to contact help.

Arresting a woman who misdiagnosed her conception date. Means absolutely anyone having an abortion legal or not. Is now scared to seek help. Police being encouraged to investigate0 victims of miscarriage. Means any medical issues during pregnancy can now scare the shit out of vonerable women. Encouraging them to avoid help when at risk.

This is just using safety as a code word to excuse saying no. They in no way care about the safety of the patients only there own beliefs.

Oxford press is pointing out. That a private a level school in Oxford has announced it’s closing. Due to this case failing.

They feel most sorry for the students. 100 of them. Paying 11k a year.

Liz Kendall makes nebulas pledges to protect the most vonersble. With no actual details on how that is measured.

Meaning it is totally valueless. And just more blaming the disabled for all governments issues.

Why does English get priority?

As you said. All the reasons you said above. Mean no other language is practical for a today government to require.

Any Lang has issues and it’s not fixing an existing problem.

But if our shitty past did not exist. We would have several different nations all choosing their own Lang. And still no real integration. Sorta why English was winning in the first place.

Honestly if any other Lang speaking subgroup of the UK had been the best at being shitty. We would still have a history of a single lang forcing itself on others. No historical UK tribe was pacifists. And muct of what you think of as English now was Normondy/french in origin replacing Saxon English.

English isn’t the only language on this island, twat.

As much as I disagree with the policy.

Your argument is not a good one. English is required to be tought to all UK school children. And is the only language that meets that minimal requirement through out the UK.

So as this is claimed to be about integration. (It’s really about winning prejudiced voters).

English is the only language that has that ability.

Honestly. The fact you had to provide a translation. Is the best evidence that English is the language that integrated the UK. Even if the history is a little/lot shitty.

This important issue. Is this makes things harder for genuine asylum seekers and refugees. And is Def against the intent of the Geneva conventions banning on rules for such immigration.

I’d say. Actually providing more areas where people can play games safely for free. Is a much better option.

Over the last few dacsdes. Most such places have been replaced with profit based corps. Making simple exercise and play out of the range of low income.

Starmer is not trying. To busy kneeling in front of billionaires and corporation owners.