But why? News agencies can do that if they wish, for the viewers, but why would a government agency releasing video evidence touch it up in any way? That’s just asking for questions.

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I can, mental health services in this country are shit and taboo. But being autistic doesn’t excuse being a deviant arsehole.

Pulling down a colleague’s trousers and then going “it’s because I’m autistic!” only solidifies that he’s an arsehole, trying to hide his actions behind a label that he thinks now makes him untouchable.

Concessions and understanding should be shown to autistic people. Sudden changes in plans, for example, may cause a strong emotional reaction that “neurotypicals” wouldn’t experience, but it doesn’t mean autistic people are free to completely do as they wish without repercussions

Actually, what am I saying? Yes, it should allow autistic people to be above the law! Brb, I’ve got a left wing government to install, nobody can stop me!

How have the Conservatives done on key issues? Slow progress has been made on social housing. From 2013 to 2023, the number of social rented homes fell from 4.0 million to 3.8 million, according to an estimate by the UK parliament. By 2022/23, just 15% of new affordable homes were for social rent. Before 2011 it was over half. In the 13 years before the Conservatives came to power, 362,000 new socially rented homes were built. In the 13 years from 2010 to 2023, this fell to 171,000.

All this combines to create an acute housing shortage. The National Housing Federation estimates there are 4.2m households in England with unmet housing needs.

https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/tories-lost-election-result-political-obituary-legacy/

The number of social homes being built has fallen by almost 90 per cent since the Conservatives came to power in 2010, new official figures have revealed.

Just 1,409 of the lowest-cost homes were started in England in the 2017/18 financial year - down from 39,402 in 2009/10.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/social-housing-uk-labour-tories-2010-election-government-building-council-houses-a8406626.html

Not to mention a revolving door for housing minister, with 16 people being minister within a 14 year period. Almost as if they didn’t really give a shit about the position because many of them are landlords.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_State_for_Housing_and_Planning_(United_Kingdom)#List_of_ministers

Hmm… Why would the party of private interests and profit result in a downturn in building and higher profits for private interests?

That’s a tough one.

Notice that drop between 2010 and 2020. Fucking Tories.

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants: a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

• Gustave Gilbert, a psychologist tasked with interrogating the Nazis after WW2

https://gadfly.igc.org/eds/ethics/evil.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Gilbert

Following the vote by MPs, four people were arrested in a protest organised by Palestine Action outside Westminster.

These included one man who the Met Police said had “blocked the gates of Downing Street with his mobility scooter”

Terrorist!

In a statement after the vote, Palestine Action said the home secretary had “bundled our domestic civil disobedience protest group in with two violent, neo-Nazi militias”.

“Many MPs told us that as a consequence they felt they did not have the option to vote against the measure,” it said.

Sounds like a dereliction of duty from many MPs. Is that not what the ability to debate is about? They could also vote no explaining that they believe 1 out of the 3 groups aren’t legitimate and that individual votes are required. But that sounds like too much like hard work I guess.

385 for

26 against

239 abstained

Interestingly high amount of abstained. I think I need to email my MP for an explanation…

The important tasks are being prioritised I see.

Corrected title: High Court allows UK to keep supporting genocide.

Join the club, our communities have never recovered from it, but the lords made plenty of money

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances

5 MPs don’t have the power to implement much initiatives and ideas. Look at the Greens, Lib Dems, SNP, Plaid Cymru, etc, for evidence of that.

We know what his ideas generally are, and he makes sure they’re plastered all over the place. We don’t need to spread them, for him, here too.

His power is in being a celebrity, getting his bullshit spread, not in elected office. Don’t spread it for him. That is, unless you agree with his bigotry I guess, but I’ve seen your name around and you seem sound.

Lol, claims they’re being authoritarian by… upholding their rules, upholding equality, upholding human rights, and preventing transphobia? Okay TERF.

I know who he is. As a teenager I thought he spoke sense, as an adult I realise he’s full of shit.

I don’t expect he knows what Lemmy is either, but that doesn’t stop his talking points from appearing here. Upvotes and downvotes are meaningless, Reddit karma was a stupid thing to care about, and even less so here. But they do determine what gets seen.

If we don’t want to spread hatred, intolerance, and bigotry then we need to stop spreading the words of a hateful, intolerant, bigot. That means not posting everything he says, not upvoting what he says. Because in doing so we help spread his message, we help normalise intolerance in our society.

Ignore him.

Fuck Nigel Farage. Don’t upvote and normalise whatever shite he’s talking.

Blank him from your mind, politically ostracise him. He’s not in government, he’s not in the official opposition. He has barely more power than the average celebrity. His power comes from talking points. Don’t give him any.

When friends and family bring up his latest bonkers outpouring, tell them he’s a nutcase that you won’t engage with because he doesn’t engage in good faith. Don’t discuss him.

He was given a platform by the BBC on the likes of HIGNFY and Question Time, his opinions became legitimised. Remove that legitimacy before it takes over any more than it already has.

Abuse of terrorism laws to repress opinions the government disagrees with. Who could have seen this coming when those laws were introduced!

Ministers can fuck off unless they’re willing to be replaced by AI too.

Labour government.

Labour.

This is supposed to be a government of the working class?

Does the working class support genocide?

I get you, but English is the only language required throughout the UK because of similarly xenophobic policies in the past.

My argument isn’t meant to be the final gotcha and suddenly Keir will reverse policy, it’s to give another perspective, another point of attack, another reason on top of all the others as to why this is a bullshit policy. A reason not likely thought about by monolingual English speakers.

Gaelic was exterminated through various government policies. Yes it was slowly, naturally, losing to English anyway but instead of allowing a bilingual society to thrive it was stamped out through force, both at the end of a gun and at the end of a belt in classrooms.

Cornish, Welsh, Irish, are all as native a language to this island as English. Why does English get priority? Because of colonial oppression. And this is another oppressive policy. More authoritarian policy from a supposed left wing Labour party. More pandering to racists like Reform.

Chan eil. Tha Keir Starmer sean-fhòbaidh agus ùghdarrasach.

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

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_Kingdom