Can’t say I’ve used an in person ticket booth in years, decades maybe. They’re always shut anyway.
When I went to Japan on holiday there were staff members hovering around the ticket machines helping people if they needed it - and I did. Not a ticket office on sight. Why can they do it but we can’t? Dunno.
Transform Politics is the name of a new group looking to form a fresh left-wing party in the UK. It’s made up of individuals and pre-existing parties – and it’s launched its campaign with a flurry of interest on social media, as well as some criticism.
Yes, and I have sympathy with that. But this is the reality. What they are demanding in pay rises is not sensible. The conservatives are telling them that, the independent pay board just told them that too, and Labour is telling them that.
The independent pay review body (DDRB) isn’t actually independent (look at who decides the appointments and sets the constraints) and their advice has been ignored several times over the last decade.
I’ve heard this a number of times and I don’t agree with this take. Are we saying that their decisions are not independent? Their whole remit is to decide what is fair based on the constraints. Suddenly saying they have constraints is meaningless. They’ve come to a decision based on the situation at the time. As far as I know the government have accepted their recommendations in full this year.
The Conservatives have dug themselves a huge hole by failing to maintain public services
Yeah I don’t disagree with this. Past actions have come up a cropper. But that doesn’t justify a 35% pay rise.
As far as the doctors go, when is a good time for them to seek recourse? There never is one.
I don’t think anyone is saying they shouldn’t seek recourse. Who is saying that? People are just rightly questioning whether this is the right way to go about it? Here’s a starter for ten. What if they had said “In a cost of living crisis with high inflation we demand 15% increase and guaranteed increase in numbers of doctors plus extra paid for training yearly to help the burnout and an uplift in junior doctor’s hourly wages”. I don’t think people would have questioned that as a starting position but they’ve completely overshot here. It’s actually put people off supporting them.
I don’t see this going away any time soon. And all the while our economy suffers. Having good access to healthcare is part of what makes us competitive - it gets people back into the economy and active, directly or indirectly.
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I’m so confused, I always assume Horner is double speaking and shit talking but I can’t quite figure out the angle here. Is it: “Go ahead and equalise the engines and fight amongst yourselves we have aero advantage anyway”?
Starmer wants to use FPTP to his advantage and to win a stonking majority. He’s not going to do that with tactical voting. And he has calculated that anyone that strays from that message is to be eliminated. It’s politics time, lads!
No sorry I don’t mean that. I mean Labour needs to whip their MPs into voting for PR. The whole Labour machine needs to get behind it. Which they’re not it would seem. Starmer will be PM at the time and he also needs to make a strong case and be passionate about it. Think BoJo and Brexit but with an actually sensible idea.
In terms of theoretical numbers, sure. But 1) the Labour government will never put this motion forward i.e. dead before it’s started and 2) even if they were shamed into doing this they would whip so hard that there won’t be any dissent. So it doesn’t matter what the SNP and Lib Dem support would have been. That’s what is so utterly depressing about this. This should be front and centre in Labour’s drive for election. They can even spin it as a way of keeping the union together. But they’ll say more about ULEZ before they say anything about this. A generation wasted… again.
do you think PR has become more of a mainstream issue in recent years? Because I’ve heard articles in the guardian as well as a people around me mentioning it
I don’t think it has. The previous AV referendum had the same level of fringe interest too around a similar stage to this. The Lib Dems were the ones to push it through in coalition and against heavy opposition from the Tories (who watered it down) and veiled opposition from Labour (who like the EU question didn’t do jack shit and sat on the fence) so it absolutely tanked. It didn’t help that thousands of student voters saw this as an opportunity to “fuck tuition fees” and vote against anything supported by the Lib Dems. Since then I don’t think a lot has changed in terms of coverage or main stream support. And, you know, that other referendum happened…
For example: how often do you hear about this on the daily news cycle versus hearing about anything Brexit related? Instead of XYZ news story can be partly blamed on Brexit do you ever hear ABC news story might have been different and more equitable under PR? Literally every single political and economic story needs to be about this for a sustained amount of time before this becomes mainstream again. Or Labour needs to swallow their pride and force the issue for the sake of the country.
Oh shit, you’re right. Somehow I’d softened it in my head. I think we can see how this is going to go again. It’s incredibly incredibly disheartening. We’ll be trapped in tribal politics forever.
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It was fun and creative and done on a (relative) shoestring budget. But I’m honestly shocked at the high praise and awards. For me, it was a solid 7 or 8 / 10. From the way people have been speaking about it they made it sound like it was a 10 / 10 perfect movie.
The people have spoken, and they want to speak to real live humans, not a rail ticket self-service app | Gaby Hinsliff (www.theguardian.com)
A group wants to form a new party to 'transform' politics after Keir Starmer's betrayal of the left (www.thecanary.co)
Transform Politics is the name of a new group looking to form a fresh left-wing party in the UK. It’s made up of individuals and pre-existing parties – and it’s launched its campaign with a flurry of interest on social media, as well as some criticism.
Being asked to switch to American English if I want to edit my playlist details (lemmy.world)
On YouTube, never seen this before but apparently it’s a thing
Kwarteng went ahead with mini-budget despite OBR warning, FOI reveals (www.theguardian.com)
UK will rejoin EU in future, says Tony Blair (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Flitwick Town Council calls on Nadine Dorries to resign as MP in open letter (www.bedfordshirelive.co.uk)
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Junior doctors in England to stage four-day strike in August (www.theguardian.com)
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Red Bull backs F1 engine equalisation move (www.motorsport.com)
NatWest boss quits after Farage bank account row (www.bbc.co.uk)
What's the stupidest rule your school ever enforced?
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Ed Davey: ‘Tactical voting can lock Tories out of power for a generation’ (www.theguardian.com)
Lib Dem leader says people lending their votes to rival parties could shut the door on Conservatives at Westminster for years to come
Make sure not to underestimate the brilliance of 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' as it proves to be an exceptional movie! (i.imgur.com)
You’ve got to see Everything Everywhere All at Once - it’s an awesome movie! I used to avoid it, thinking it was just another sci-fi film that got popular in theaters, but boy, was I mistaken. The story is really well-crafted, the visuals are stunning, the acting is top-notch, and it even tugs at your heartstrings...