I don’t think it matters mate.
Most normal people know he’s a cunt anyway.
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I seriously wish some politician would have balls to fix this mess. The upper house is essential but the way it works and this tit for tat appointment bollocks is just wrong.
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I would like to see an apolitical upper chamber, just have field experts to review legislation and see if it is workable. Unfortunately, someone has to appoint these people, and we could just end up with the situation of the US Supreme Court where justices are political appointees and simply rubber stamp anti-constitutional legislation.
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… but necessary.
The senate in France is the same. Government works it’s arse off to pass a budget and it gets blocked by the ‘republican’ right in the senate.
I could understand it if it was on constitutional grounds however it’s just for political tit for tat.
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Unfortunately, appointment is just an invitation to corruption. The second chamber has to be elected, but maybe in a different way like in Germany.
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I’m the same, but I suspect the only way we get that is to remove first past the post in the Commons first.
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I find the below sad for two reasons. One, as a policy from a major(?) party it is extremely short sighted and two, it will no doubt be a bit of a “vote winner”…
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The press constantly refer to this as a ban on diesel and petrol vehicles, as if they were forcing all existing vehicles to be scrapped. They aren’t, it is only a manufacturing requirement, in a similar way that more polluting vehicles have been phased out over the last 30 years. You can still use the old ones (although some have been banned from city centres)
Looking at the latest figures, 33% of UK car sales are now some sort of plug in. At the current rate of growth, the internal combustion engine will become extinct of its own volition.
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This stat should be a key lever to get behind and push further forward rather than weakening it by this sort of politicking.
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Trump effect. Sadly
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Anyone like The Offspring??
Feels rather apt right now…
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That’s fair enough, but there is more than enough real news to base that opinion on, we don’t need oceans of made up propaganda doing it for us.
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Unemployment up. Investment low. Public sector pay up. Highest tax bill ever….. we knew it would happen. Same old same old.
So nurses, doctors, teachers, and so on shouldnt get a pay rise, again?
Trump is at least investing his time and energy on the UK…
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I hope the Beeb counter sue him for being an odious obnoxious cunt when he loses this case.
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Of course they should get a rise. My point was that the current government are repeating the nonsense of every other Labour government. Except they keep saying growth and doing everything to sabotage it.
And Trump is right. What The BBC did was scandalous. Whether you like Trump or not. The days of impartiality are long gone. Time for them to be disbanded.
The thing is, he has to prove that the BBC as a whole organisation did so, and did it maliciously and with intent to caurse harm to his character. Did they, or was it more likely that it was done by certain editors/producers and the rest of the BBC had no involvement or knowledge?
Using US case law in particular NYT vs Sullivan, it looks a weak case for Trump to sue the entire BBC rather than the individual producers/editors from the Panarama program in question as US First amendment allows the protecction of free speach to encourage robust debate and to hold officials and publig figures to account without self-censorship. He won’t win this
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It’ll be in Florida with some Maga judge no doubt.