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2 days agoGood to know that the Labour Home Secretary thinks the appropriate response to criticism of policy from the public is “fuck right off white liberal”.
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1·3 days agoThe Kremlin did Brexit imo
I read it as pretty clearly placing it on Russia’s shoulders alone.
Who else gains from a UK outwith the EU?
The USA? China? Individual moneyed interests? Disaster capitalists’ sons ?
I think it’s fair to say there were many sources of dis/mis information and pinning it squarely on Russia is disingenuous. They very very likely contributed, but they’re not the only outside power to meddle. Nevermind the internal greedy self interested campaigns.
And I bet they think you’re the idiom!
True that.
Funny how despite great interest among the population that got shot down…
Corbyn won the 2015 party leadership election to succeed him. The Labour Party’s membership increased sharply, both during the leadership campaign and following his election.[3]
After Labour MPs sought to remove him in 2016 through a leadership challenge, he won a second leadership contest against Owen Smith. In the 2017 general election, Corbyn led Labour to increase its vote share by 10 percentage points to 40 per cent, their largest rise since the 1945 general election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn
Following the short campaign, Labour again finished as the second largest party in parliament but surprised many pundits by increasing their share of the popular vote to 40%, resulting in a net gain of 30 seats and a hung parliament. Although Labour started the campaign as far as 20 points behind, it defied expectations by gaining 40% of the vote, its greatest share since 2001. It was the first time Labour had made a net gain of seats since 1997, and the party’s 9.6% increase in vote share was its largest in a single general election since 1945.[113][114] This has partly been attributed to the popularity of its 2017 Manifesto that promised to scrap tuition fees, address public sector pay, make housing more affordable, end austerity, nationalise the railways and provide school students with free lunches.[115][116][117]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_leadership_of_Jeremy_Corbyn
They could try an actual socialist, like Labour pre- Blair used to have.
The difficulty there though is finding one within the neo-liberal pro-capitalism modern Labour party…
Yeah, the BBC are talking 'bout the GDP
That means fuck all to me
I gotta eatYou know a brother’s gotta eat
When he ask how I feel, I reply that I’m fed up
Some are drowning in money, I’m barely keeping my head up
Price of life on the rise, I’m feeling like it’s a setup
'Cause nobody that I grew with seems to be getting a leg up
Cleverly later told the ombudsman’s office she had “worked in BME communities” - black and minority ethnic - in her career as a youth and community worker and had “lots of BME friends”.
I CaNT bE rACiSt i HaVe lOtS oF bLaCK fRiEnDS!
Good to know you think people taking food are scum, and not the businesses that are gatekeeping it behind profit motive. Your ire is targeted at the wrong people.
You don’t pump fuel entirely yourself though.
Pay attention next time you fuel up and you’ll notice there’s a delay before the display zeroes out. That delay is because a human inside the kiosk watches either through the window or via camera to confirm you look old enough to fuel up and are acting responsibly enough to be allowed to spray flammable liquid out of a hose and approves the sale to begin.
You may think you’re a lone wolf capable of being a big boy all by yourself but for better or worse we live in a society. Not lone individuals bravely traversing the wilds of modern human civilisation.
I don’t know what we’re talking about then, I never said replace every single employee with a self service checkout, I said I prefer them over shop attendants because they are faster and I can it myself (even without stealing)
In response to a comment about replacing employees with self service, in a mocking derogatory manner.
What things do you think people are nicking from a Greggs other than food then?
I didn’t say steal. But if we’re going down that route have you tried telling the cops to inform people to just stop doing crime? It would make everybody’s lives much easier!
Clearly you’ve never worked a customer facing retail job in your life. There’s always discounts, deals, and reductions that go awry on the tills. It’s also against the law for retailers to sell alcohol, energy drinks, or knives to minors, and computers can’t be held liable for that happening.
Shop attendants have a purpose beyond just beeping your items through.
Even your mocking example of fuel attendants is provided by a human in the modern day, sitting in the kiosk watching to approve the pump instead of on the forecourt, but there nonetheless.
I’m all for the reduction of labour, we do far too much unnecessary busy work to satisfy the wants of the owners. But this is one of the cases where the job has a clear purpose, for customers, businesses, and employees.
Self service has a purpose, to increase efficiencies, but not to replace humans entirely. Not to squeeze maximum profit to the detriment of everything else.
Right, but shop attendants do far more than just beep your items through. As evidenced by this very article that you’ve posted. It’s not a useless job.
Customers are not employees, we have no reason to ensure our transactions go through properly. That’s the business’s responsibility, not ours.
Self service has a place, but not as a complete replacement for human beings entirely, as many businesses are trying to push.
Do you think people are stealing sausage rolls in order to get rich?
Do you think Greggs, a FTSE 250 company which has driven out thousands of local bakeries and pays their workers a pittance, while making vast profits, aren’t nicking value from around the country to fill the fat pockets of a few?
Oh, well if it alleviates your social anxieties and makes you feel like a big boy then by all means let’s get rid of jobs for millions of people!
Fuel protesters plan to burn lots of fuel protesting that they can’t afford to burn fuel. Makes sense…
Citing the Forde Report commissioned by The Equality and Human Rights Commission and a multi part Al Jazeera documentary, which questions primary sources within the party.
But don’t let credible sources get in the way of your ignorant hubris.
EDIT: Used to argue on here that the Greens didn’t have the antisemitism problem that existed in Labour under Corbyn. Looking at the downvotes here of an article that links to examples and puts together the evidence that these people are Green candidates and are antisemitic, I can see that the problem is in fact identical: a small hardcore of genuine racists being defended by non-racists who have concluded that their factional allegiance to a political party is more important than fighting racism.
Fuck off with this debunked bollocks again.
Allegations and incidents of antisemitism within the British Labour Party have involved members and affiliates of the party. These incidents have spanned various periods and have involved stereotypes, conspiracy theories, and offensive language. Labour has faced criticism for its handling of such incidents, including its disciplinary measures and the prevalence of certain antisemitic tropes within the party. There has also been debate over current definitions of antisemitism, including whether criticism of the State of Israel constitutes a new antisemitism. The Labour Party has publicly condemned antisemitism and taken steps to address concerns, but the issue remains a subject of ongoing debate and controversy.
Following Jeremy Corbyn’s election as party leader in 2015, allegations of antisemitism within the party grew. In response, Corbyn established the Chakrabarti Inquiry, which said that the party was not “overrun by anti-Semitism or other forms of racism” but that there was evidence of ignorance and sometimes toxicity within the party. The inquiry made 20 recommendations. In 2017, Labour Party rules were amended to categorise hate speech, including antisemitism, as a disciplinary matter. A commissioned YouGov poll in 2017 found that Labour supporters were less likely to hold antisemitic views than Conservative Party or UK Independence Party supporters. A study by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research that same year reported that those on the left-wing of the political spectrum were no more antisemitic than the general population and less antisemitic than those who were right-wing, and also stated those of the left-wing were more likely to be critical of the State of Israel. In July 2018, the governing body of the Labour Party adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism for disciplinary purposes, with modified examples related to criticism of Israel.
In May 2019, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) launched an inquiry into whether Labour had “unlawfully discriminated against, harassed or victimised people” because they were Jewish. In April 2020, the new party leader Keir Starmer announced that an internal report on Labour’s handling of antisemitism claims would not be submitted to the EHRC as evidence. Following this, the internal report was leaked. The report said Corbyn’s team had inherited a lack of processes and systems for handling antisemitism, and that hostility towards Corbyn’s team by senior officials from Labour’s right-wing had contributed to mistakes, confusion and difficulties handling cases. Later that month, the Labour Party’s governing body commissioned the barrister Martin Forde to lead a new independent review. In October 2020, the EHRC published its report, finding 23 instances of political interference and concluding that Labour had breached the Equality Act in two cases. In 2022, the Forde Report was published and said the issue of antisemitism was being used as a factional weapon. The report also said that senior figures in Labour hostile to Corbyn and his supporters had slowed down the leadership in dealing with antisemitism and other forms of racism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_British_Labour_Party
6·7 days agoIsn’t it closed source and serves ads?
Lemmy.world admins: “this is a direct threat to me personally”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Turner#Career
It’s been added to his résumé on Wikipedia already!
Reading through his career I think we may have an ambassador that’s fed up with the bollocks and corruption of modern politics.