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Which unions still affiliate with Labour now? I imagine a few will be reconsidering that even more strongly now.
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https://labour.org.uk/people/unions/ Unite and Unison are the big ones I suppose. I'm pretty sure Unite has reduced their funding already and were making noise about reducing it more. And yeah, if shadow ministers are going on TV and saying "it's party policy not to support unions" you have to imagine there are going to be consequences from the unions. Wonder if he'd have said the same things if it was (Labour-affiliated train driver's union) ASLEF rather than RMT striking.
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I finally took the big step and cancelled my direct debit, god bless
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SEND IN THE ARMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  https://twitter.com/CerdynJones/status/1540989229811073025
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Jun 26, 2022 15:24
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Labour supports labour rights apart from the right to strike, simple as
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Eddy-Baby posted:I finally took the big step and cancelled my direct debit, god bless One of us Seriously, though, good for you. They don't deserve your money.
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Send in the military because these people don't want to work. Man I can't see this going awfully or becoming precident
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Hobo posted:This is astoundingly stupid even by current Labour standards - what’s the point of a Labour government that doesn’t even support a labour strike that is supported by the majority of the public? Personally I think this current form of Labour are so shell shocked by Corbyn still that they refuse to present even the barest of kayfabe towards progress. They are the Jobber who acknowledges that they are jobbers. No pretence of trying to win, just there to make the Tories look good.
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Plus all of Corbyn's most popular policies (especially the domestic economic ones) are hated by the press and their big backers as socialism, and being a bunch of PR managers they haven't figured out that when the bosses' papers are calling you terrible that's usually a good thing, so they're trying to walk the tightrope of things that are actually popular with the public and things that the press likes, which is gently caress all.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Send in the military because these people don't want to work. Even allowing for the fact that she almost certainly meant the "use the Army to do the jobs the striking workers" sort of strikebreaking rather than "send in the squaddies and armoured cars to shoot people on picket lines" sort of strikebreaking: Why do people - British libs especially - think that the Army is a sort of Marvel Avengers-like pool of people trained to do anything, just waiting to spring into action? Do they seriously think that a load of kids in camo can rock up and run a signalling centre, service a train or manage a major railway station? For added hubris, the Army hasn't had any units trained in railway operations since 2014 when the last TA Railway Troop (probably mostly formed by people now on strike...) was disbanded by the Con-Lib coalition due to budget cuts. The last regular unit of the Royal Logistics Corp specialising in rail transport was dissolved following the 2010 defence review. If you want hundreds of service people trained in specific skills to help break strikes you gotta pay for them, fellas.
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BalloonFish posted:Even allowing for the fact that she almost certainly meant the "use the Army to do the jobs the striking workers" sort of strikebreaking rather than "send in the squaddies and armoured cars to shoot people on picket lines" sort of strikebreaking: Guess a combination of imported US military fawning and the 2012 Olympics “we have to get the army in the run it” event when G4S hosed it.
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Morning friends, another silly query for y'all re: how to live: So me and girlfriend live in London and would like to move to a larger place also in London (so have to be some less central area). While there's loads of places available to rent and we got decent piles of cash money, some questions: 1) Last year when the gas prices started going up I got a "fixed for two years" gas tariff, but I think that account would have to be closed and a new one opened for the new place. Is there any way to ensure that when winter arrives we wouldn't have to suddenly pay £500/month for basic heating or some ridiculous poo poo like that? Apparently there used to be like price caps and stuff, but of course the government deleted all that, being cunts. Do we just need to move to a place which has actual insulation (note: this is difficult since no such place exists in this entire accursed country) or uh what the heck? 2) Similar question regarding GP (and hospitals I guess). Right now where we are it's actually quite easy to get GP appointments, have been to nearby hospital a few times as well and that's also good at least for milder stuff like X-rays. How do I figure out if hypothetical new place has decent, non-overloaded GPs in the area? For example, the NHS website has this search (random London postcode as example) and there are reviews, but I don't think there's much info there on current booking times and whatnot. We're in the lucky position of being wealthy and healthy enough to move but trying to figure out how to keep both these conditions from deteriorating.
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jaete posted:Morning friends, another silly query for y'all re: how to live: No idea re tariffs. Re GPs best to join local facebook groups for areas you're interested in and simply ask the question (no need to say you're new to the area, just that you find you need to change GP). Obviously, any comments will reflect peoples' personal experiences. Some will praise and others drat the same practices.
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Hobo posted:This is astoundingly stupid even by current Labour standards - what’s the point of a Labour government that doesn’t even support a labour strike that is supported by the majority of the public? It's an op. That doesn't mean it's a big overarching conspiracy with some singular meeting of cackling toffs. It's just small individual acts of class war forming a greater whole because the upper classes are all pulling in the same direction unlike us
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jaete posted:Right now where we are it's actually quite easy to get GP appointments, You currently live inside a goose laying golden eggs and moving to any other goose will almost certainly mean a goose that just shits poo from a goose butt
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jaete posted:2) Similar question regarding GP (and hospitals I guess). Right now where we are it's actually quite easy to get GP appointments, have been to nearby hospital a few times as well and that's also good at least for milder stuff like X-rays. How do I figure out if hypothetical new place has decent, non-overloaded GPs in the area? For example, the NHS website has this search (random London postcode as example) and there are reviews, but I don't think there's much info there on current booking times and whatnot. Have a look at the websites of GP surgeries in prospective areas. The more restrictive/limited processes for new registrants are, and the bigger the warnings about appointment length, the more overloaded the area probably is.
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Lungboy posted:https://twitter.com/schwitzyoo/status/1540992801055334402?s=21&t=BXECc5agHxRKhkq0Cr0BBQ I genuinely don't get people who can look past this. I get that you can think it's fine to trick people to don't respect, but how do you believe they won't just do the exact same thing to you?
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Seeing Olivia Rodrigo at Glastonbury covering 'Complicated' by Avril Lavigne and realising that that song's basically classical music to her and her generation made me feel properly  lolBeen really enjoying listening to it all, though. Seems there're some pretty great and solidarity-inflected vibes going on. And a lot of rage about what's going in America atm. Barry Foster fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jun 26, 2022 |
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I appreciated Phoebe Bridgers statement of "gently caress America" and getting a chant of ",gently caress the Supreme Court" going
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Failed Imagineer posted:I appreciated Phoebe Bridgers statement of "gently caress America" and getting a chant of ",gently caress the Supreme Court" going Yeah, that was banging. Her last song of that set was loving primal as well. Olivia Rodrigo also got Lily Allen out to do a 'gently caress U' and called every one of the fuckers out by name and said "we hate you", to a rapturous response from the crowd. The kids are alright, straight up
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It sounds horrible but I wish I could stop caring about the US because a. it doesn't affect me (...yet?) b. there's nothing I can do about it and c. there are many grave injustices happening all around the world at any time that I don't hear about or give any thought to. The whole thing just makes me depressed and that's clearly not very useful.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:It sounds horrible but I wish I could stop caring about the US because a. it doesn't affect me (...yet?) b. there's nothing I can do about it and c. there are many grave injustices happening all around the world at any time that I don't hear about or give any thought to. On the other hand, it's a good reminder that you still give a poo poo and care about other people which is something a depressingly large amount of people can't really say but take time out from time to time, for sure.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:It sounds horrible but I wish I could stop caring about the US because a. it doesn't affect me (...yet?) b. there's nothing I can do about it and c. there are many grave injustices happening all around the world at any time that I don't hear about or give any thought to. when it goes the other way and you get too hypernormalised you start wishing in a very strange way for more complex feelings like that back rather than just constant inchoate, primal rage mixed 50/50 with mind numbing fear, with a healthy sprinkling of cowardice and guilt for not doing anything useful about it even though you know the only useful thing left now is [redacted on legal grounds] make sure you vote though
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DesperateDan posted:when it goes the other way and you get too hypernormalised you start wishing in a very strange way for more complex feelings like that back rather than just constant inchoate, primal rage mixed 50/50 with mind numbing fear, with a healthy sprinkling of cowardice and guilt for not doing anything useful about it even though you know the only useful thing left now is [redacted on legal grounds] This This This
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BalloonFish posted:Even allowing for the fact that she almost certainly meant the "use the Army to do the jobs the striking workers" sort of strikebreaking rather than "send in the squaddies and armoured cars to shoot people on picket lines" sort of strikebreaking: Never mind the last send in the army cry regarding backfilling council and civil service roles that were understaffed after Brexit had senior officers concerned due to the standard of literacy and numeracy the average squaddie has, not like those are important when you are running a railway 
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Bacon Terrorist posted:Never mind the last send in the army cry regarding backfilling council and civil service roles that were understaffed after Brexit had senior officers concerned due to the standard of literacy and numeracy the average squaddie has, not like those are important when you are running a railway They still think we are the USA, and not a small nation.
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Bacon Terrorist posted:Never mind the last send in the army cry regarding backfilling council and civil service roles that were understaffed after Brexit had senior officers concerned due to the standard of literacy and numeracy the average squaddie has, not like those are important when you are running a railway Every time I hear the "send the army to do <x job>!" I'm reminded of the fact that an actual majority of enlisted squaddies have a reading age of lower than 12. So any job filled by them, you have worse odds than a coin flip that the person filling that role will be functionally illiterate. Gyro Zeppeli fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Jun 26, 2022 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/milkgapes/status/1537820374074855425?t=laWrwDiqbHPaeqRLBP_zEg&s=19
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Guavanaut posted:Come out ye cream & chives lol and by that I mean I actually did laugh out loud
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DesperateDan posted:when it goes the other way and you get too hypernormalised you start wishing in a very strange way for more complex feelings like that back rather than just constant inchoate, primal rage mixed 50/50 with mind numbing fear, with a healthy sprinkling of cowardice and guilt for not doing anything useful about it even though you know the only useful thing left now is [redacted on legal grounds]  The cute thread helps a bit though:
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Failed Imagineer posted:https://twitter.com/milkgapes/status/1537820374074855425?t=laWrwDiqbHPaeqRLBP_zEg&s=19 One of the greatest moments in politics in living history
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So on the same day that David Lammy condemned the BA workers for asking for a 10% pay rise*, PriceWaterhouseCooper gives its employees a 9% pay rise. If only the BA workers had asked for 1% less, maybe the Labour Party would have supported them! *Technically they want their pandemic 10% pay cut reversed, but good luck expecting Lammy and his ilk to mention that.
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Have a look at the websites of GP surgeries in prospective areas. The more restrictive/limited processes for new registrants are, and the bigger the warnings about appointment length, the more overloaded the area probably is. Yeah, the reviews on the NHS official GP surgery list are actually fairly useful as well. Many of them seem to mention things like "can't get appointment"; of course if some place doesn't have reviews that mention that, that doesn't mean it's actually fine.  Unsurprisingly some postcodes have more GP surgeries available nearby than others. But I'm not sure what the catchment areas are like. Does that vary by surgery? If I register for something that's say 1 mile away rather than 0.5 miles away, I guess they might tell me nope I need to use the nearer one? Hmm. (For reference, current living place has 21 GP surgeries within 1 mile, and 10 within half a mile; if I had to guess I'd say any of the half-mile ones would probably be fine... maybe, but not the ones further away) Relatedly, is there any way of seeing the catchment areas of London hospitals?
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jaete posted:Unsurprisingly some postcodes have more GP surgeries available nearby than others. But I'm not sure what the catchment areas are like. Does that vary by surgery? If I register for something that's say 1 mile away rather than 0.5 miles away, I guess they might tell me nope I need to use the nearer one? Hmm. (For reference, current living place has 21 GP surgeries within 1 mile, and 10 within half a mile; if I had to guess I'd say any of the half-mile ones would probably be fine... maybe, but not the ones further away) It's not even that simple - I (in London) live two roads away from one surgery, but I'm not in the catchment area (its catchment area doesn't have it in the centre, but near one edge) so my nearest GP I can actually register at is 30mins walk away. Not ideal for someone who has a regular appointment there.
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Lol how long is it gonna be before the UK is like Israel and there's literally a GE every 3 months
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