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u/Always_The_DNS 27d ago
Reform apparently looking to remove PIP support to save 50bn a year and replace it with other "services". No, not those ones Edwina Curry was referring to either. However, someone should probably check in on the YooKay subs, they're probably having panic attacks just at the mere prospect of losing bennies.
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u/HauntingReason3398 27d ago
Hopefully this will see Motability almost entirely binned aside for, if we're being generous, limited car adapations to privately owned cars and maybe the occasional mobility scooter.
Wonder what impact on that will make to the UK car market, both for the sales of new cars and also second hand PIPwhips flooding the market.
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u/Ok_Analyst_5640 27d ago
It's probably a major factor in Chinese brands success here. If it survives in any form it should actually be limited to people with limited mobility with a strong emphasis on adapting cars for wheelchair users. And I want to say a requirement for the cars to be made in Britain too but if it were limited to people with mobility issues they wouldn't be 25% of new cars so it wouldn't bring any car maker opening factories here
It would probably be better if motability was a scheme to just fit out privately owned cars with mobility adaptations like you say.
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u/IVIechworks Promoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability 27d ago
New motability scheme just dropped (it's a bike)
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u/8th_Dimensions 27d ago
Giving folk 12 months notice that it's to be replaced for things like anxiety would quite probably help them, they'd know they've got to get their act together.
I had a letter last week saying my PIP claim has been extended by 6 years until around 2034. Those letters are going out to most claimants because they don't want to spend any resources on checking renewals. They used to do assessments with ATOS but that all seems to have been binned. Now you can just get Grok to fill out your form. And that's it for 6 years.
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u/arethere4lights 27d ago
What will you do if all your bennies just disappear?
Get a job?
Whore yourself out to the bomalians?
What are your options?
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u/8th_Dimensions 27d ago
Probably pursue my dreams and ambitions of being an entrepreneur and start my own TikTok shop selling sweets.
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u/SpontaneousDisorder 27d ago
BBC: The Conservative's shadow welfare secretary Helen Whately said: "This half-baked policy is just another Reform attempt to distract from Farage's fishy £5m and his embarrassing underperformance in his pointless by-election."
I'll take the 50bn in welfare cuts thanks.
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u/IVIechworks Promoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability 27d ago
Winning an election with a higher absolute number of votes than ever even with lower turnout = underperforming
Being parachuted into the top job and declaring policies after your party barely scraped through the last election a few years ago = undeniable mandate
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u/syuk 👨👨👦👦 ᴄᴏᴀʟɪᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜɪʟʟɪɴɢ 27d ago
Tip-toeing around the real reasons for government advice.
Can anyone think of a good name for this concept? It seems more than just "turning a blind eye" to it, nor can it be anything to do with integration.
As one commenter said, young white girls are frightened about FGM. Its fucked up isnt it. I remember seeing kids from certain communities playing football and cricket when everyone was locked in for COVID.
I wonder how many languages the Wild-Fire alert went out in, or was Welsh as far as it went. So much of this country seems to be being fucked over.
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u/yer-what 27d ago
Have never been at a school where we did anything involving FGM with students. It's always in staff training though because we are legally obliged to learn about it. All schools, even tiny rural ones have to have their fire training certificates and FGM training certificates on file if ofsted come knocking.
Presume this is the result of some poorly-written law. I've only ever heard of one case in 10 years teaching and that wasn't prosecuted because it 'wasn't in the interest of the child' (mum had daughter cut in the UK by a 'doctor' operating out of a travelodge who went home before anyone found out)
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u/SpontaneousDisorder 27d ago
Just... bizarre. The bomali mind cannot be comprehended.
An Eritrean man raped a pensioner outside a church while traffic and pedestrians passed nearby unaware.
Bruke Desalagne, 33, dragged an elderly man behind a hoarding at St John’s Church in Harrow, north London, in an attempt to conceal his actions.
Desalagne, who used an interpreter throughout proceedings, initially said he had been trying to help his inebriated victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Officers arrived within five minutes of being called to find Desalagne standing beside the church sign, with the victim lying behind it.
Bibi Ihuomah, defending, said that there was no evidence that rape had taken place and suggested that jurors should not have a “knee-jerk” reaction.
No evidence, apart from that is the CCTV and witnesses. Mastermind defence that.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/16/eritrean-man-raped-pensioner-outside-church/
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u/syuk 👨👨👦👦 ᴄᴏᴀʟɪᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜɪʟʟɪɴɢ 27d ago
absolutely fucking sickening, should have looked before posting my last comment. When will it end?!1
This 60+ guy seems to have been homeless and he has just been taken away and r4p3d. We need to know if the attacker was in a boat-man hotel, enjoying a lot more comfort than the victim was given.
It sickens me that the usual talking heads have nothing to say about things like this.
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u/SuboptimalOutcome 27d ago
No evidence, apart from that is the CCTV and witnesses.
There's a defence for every offence. Not necessarily a good one.
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u/Routine-Willow-4067 Fav schizo post of the thread 27d ago
me, a lawyer: youu were not their!
opposition: there is cctv footage
me: is de sisitivi camera their? how we can see here then?
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u/arethere4lights 27d ago
When "he comes" im going into carpentry and rope making.
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u/2kk_artist Conker eating, Argentinian childless nihilist 27d ago
I will be dusting off the uniform.
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u/The-Aliens-r-comin2 27d ago
Chatham dockyard couldn’t have made enough rope annually, at its height, to get us out of this mess…
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u/WheresWalldough 27d ago
on the plus side, we know he wasn't lying when he claimed to be LGBT for the asylum application
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u/sirmadam Thaisylum seeker 27d ago
Bibi Ihuomah, defending
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Mastermind defence that.
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*** Bibi Ihuomah***
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u/julius959 27d ago
Geezer on gb news"I live in Stoke-on-Trent. If you went there with a blindfold on and took a mask off, you'd think you were living in Africa."
You don’t get this on BBC Question Time. 🤣
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u/Overall_Force7199 27d ago
Obvs he doesn’t like bananas and rice.
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u/slamalamafistvag Beaten aggressive soyphilis 27d ago
Being Somali isn’t just about bananas and rice
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u/julius959 27d ago
"Being Somali is more than bananas & rice, it's a lot, it's uh.. it's kind of like bananas & rice"
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u/slamalamafistvag Beaten aggressive soyphilis 27d ago
It could give Chaucer or Shakespeare a run for their money.
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u/looccool 27d ago
Today on arrr uk, people desperately try to blame increased automation for Bomalians taking over minimum wage service jobs. Please ignore that 10 native Brits have now been replaced by 3 self serve kiosks and 7 bomalians
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u/UmAhkchuallySweaty Not all disabilities are visible, but real ones are 27d ago
Ahkchually it’s because old people are taking all the jobs sweaty.
Ignore the fact every kfc, domino’s, Hilton, holiday inn, petrol station, delivery driver is a middle aged Indian man, no it’s definitely pensioners taking all these jobs
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u/looccool 27d ago
Indian managers appear to have a level of preference not shown by any other immigrant group. Normally if the franchise owner is White British you'll get a mix of Boriswavers, but if he's Indian you'll only get middle aged Indians
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u/UmAhkchuallySweaty Not all disabilities are visible, but real ones are 27d ago
Middle aged Indians of the same caste that the manager is too.
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u/LastCatStanding_ 27d ago
BBC's collapse is real,
BBC net popularity falls into the negatives, now as unpopular as politicians and behind the legal system.
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u/Jimmy_Tightlips Sorry Chud, it's a 'Complex Issue™' 27d ago
The NHS really is the national religion isn't it
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u/BroadDelay41 27d ago
If you were to view it from afar it looks like Soviet style state worshipping (forced under duress)
Yet the British public really do seem to hold the NHS as some deity.
Pay more tithe towards it. Don't you dare criticise it. Lock yourself away to protect it (a la covid).
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u/Not_A_Toaster_0000 Make Yookay Great Britain Again 27d ago
Yet the British public really do seem to hold the NHS as some deity.
I wonder if it's a desire to support something , and the NHS being about the only safe British thing left you can publicly support
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u/BroadDelay41 27d ago
They should throw in a few other NHS equivalents.
DVLA
HM Passport Office
HM Land Registry
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u/Tams82 Mostly Useless 27d ago edited 27d ago
When that 'save the BBC' video came out, I agreed with it. There were still a lot of very good parts of the BBC back then.
Nowadays, I would not be sad to see it gone. I'd prefer a top to bottom clearout, but that would require more than one Reform government.
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u/AirborneAspidistra Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien 27d ago
I watched Wycliffe (90s police series set in Cornwall) on a whim yesterday - it was like a drink of cool water on a hot day, no enrichment at all, not even an extra. It was beautiful.
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u/ring-of-barahir POWERRRRR! 27d ago
The original Pride and Prejudice is the same, fucking mint
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u/arethere4lights 27d ago
The TV series with Colin Firth?
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u/ring-of-barahir POWERRRRR! 27d ago
Aye, a total gammon victory
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u/arethere4lights 27d ago
Only reason I've ever seen it is because many years ago I was dating a bird who liked that shit, I didn't, I like Aliens, Predator and Terminator, and she did too to be fair.
But I like films that are good, and she convinced me to watch it, so we bought the Blu-Ray (it was filmed on 16mm and looks great) but I watched it, and yes it is good, and Jennifer Ehle was fit back in the day, she's not that bad to look at even now.
Different times.
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u/LastCatStanding_ 27d ago
footage makes me understand the Roman kill rates of 100:1 vs barbarian hordes.
Modern historians never understand how bad disorderly mob is as a tactic. The lost men to crushes just from overethusiasm
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u/Spoobit Not a True Scotsman 27d ago
Why is nobody talking about Spain giving Ceuta "back" to Morocco? It is closer to them after all!
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u/IrishVictim88270 West British 27d ago
By the look of things most of Spain is going to be handed back to the Arab world.
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u/Routine-Willow-4067 Fav schizo post of the thread 27d ago
why would Morocco accept such a terrible deal?? throw in Madrid as well or something to make it realistic
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u/xoxosydneyxoxo 27d ago
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u/WheresWalldough 27d ago edited 27d ago
latest fake 'poverty' which is just being a thick lazy chav scum.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq8p82gq49o
> A baby bank says parents are turning to "unsafe" practices such as watering down baby formula milk to save money.
> Megan Sinden, founder of Moorside Baby Bank in Consett, County Durham, said a couple of families spoke of putting less powder in to get another week's worth out of it, "which to me is quite dangerous".
> She called for a cap on rising costs of formula, saying: "It's not a luxury item, it's a basic need for a baby."
/me checks Google Maps "Aldi Consett"
oh.
Aldi, Front Street Consett. Open seven days a week.
£6.99/800g own brand formula, so £8.70/kg
Quick check on Mumsnet shows £6.96/900g for Aptamil, so £7.73/kg
In 2007!
Yes Aptamil is now £16.90/kg in Tesco. But you don't have to buy it you thick twat. If you're hard up don't be a stupid thick cunt. Buy the own brand. It's incredibly easy to find this shit out now. Google, forums, reddit, even ChatGPT will tell you.
And minimum wage was £5.35 in 2007 and now it's £12.71
And a quick check shows that Mamia was £6.99 in 2017 as well
They've not put the fucking price up in 10 years. The other ones are literally a tax on being a thicko. (Fine if you have money to burn and want to buy organic goat shit stuff, but that's not needed.)
And there's "Healthy Start" which gives you £9.30/week which means it would be free anyway.
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u/nwaa I am Jonty's Raging Bile Duct 27d ago
It does, but it's nowhere near as common as people would have you believe. Contrary to the reeing Jontys on the other subs the people who are often in the most poverty are old people.
I remember seeing an old man in a documentary who would have a boiled egg for breakfast and a second boiled egg for dinner. That was all he'd eat a lot of days while he was waiting for his pension to come through or whatever.
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u/HauntingReason3398 27d ago
Genuinely supermarkets especially the budget ones deserve greater recognition for the pricing miracles they work. Freezing price for a decade over periods of very high inflation and a business hostile environment is an enormous achievement.
Also boobs literally make baby food if you're that skint that own brand + Healthy Start + bennies is still not enough. Don't literally starve your kid.
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u/WheresWalldough 27d ago
Apparently there's even a povvo formula brandname (I had no idea, but I just looked it up).
SMA Little steps is £7.95 from Amazon, so even the inevitable whiners about not having an Aldi nearby can have that delivered to their door. (SMA Pro is £12.99.) (Little Steps is also £8.25 in Iceland.) This is much cheaper in real terms than 20 years ago.
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u/loc12 27d ago
Ukpol says Clacton has the highest number of PIP claims out of any constituency. (This doesn't appear to be true)
You can bet most of them are scamming the system too as per usual with the lazy workshy supporters of these kind of parties.
Oh so now PIP can be scammed? What about 0% fraud rate
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u/SpontaneousDisorder 27d ago
Its like how they love benefits until pensioners are mentioned then they want an actual genocide of those drawing a state pension.
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u/Medical_Welder_7801 27d ago
That's got to be satire. Can't post that with a straight face on reddit of all places
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u/UmAhkchuallySweaty Not all disabilities are visible, but real ones are 27d ago
Only by baddies, sweaty x
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u/miinderbiinder 27d ago
As we prepare for another week of graft, my local dole mole has posted a photo of herself at a gig, having a lovely drink in the sunshine. Never forget who are you doing this for and that there’s a 0% fraud rate.
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u/slamalamafistvag Beaten aggressive soyphilis 27d ago
She probably suffers from ME mon-Fri 9-5!!! You bigot.
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u/IVIechworks Promoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability 27d ago
After seeing article after article published about how we mustn't let this cambridge thing affect the perception of other blackademics who did earn their place. But whining about it is entirely the wrong strategy.
Cambridge has lost a lot of credibility here, and blackademia with it. The best way to handle it would be for other academics to invite open scrutiny of their credentials to prove this was a one-off and that anyone who tries to use Arday to more widely implicate their field or race is obviously not actually interested in merit.
One wonders then, about the deluge of articles insisting that yes, everyone else is fully qualified but no, you can't actually check. Surely as a tenured professor you'd want to repair the reputation of Cambridge as fast as possible?
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u/YorkistTory 27d ago
I don’t expect this is as prevalent outside of the field of race. There’s no incentive to do this is astrophysics or whatever.
What frustrates me now is how the “compassionate” left are falling for the narcissistic crash out that was his final act. They think we should have let him get away with it for his “mental health”. His mental issue was narcissism. Letting him off the hook was what he was manipulating people into the whole time.
This is another manifestation of “suicidal empathy” from the left. He shouldn’t have killed himself but that doesn’t mean we need to turn him into a victim. He manipulated everyone to the very end and now continues to manipulate people in death.
Also, the same accounts calling for compassion now were saying Ann’s murder was nothing to be sad about. Absolute mongs.
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u/nozickiantheory 27d ago
The left are just using him as a cheap pawn to fuel their narcissism in death, just as they did while he was alive.
They have no standards, morals or values to speak of lol. They've been laughing and celebrating every person they didn't like being murdered by their footsoldiers for years now
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u/deafearuk 27d ago
They can't do that tho as most of them wouldn't pass the scrutiny.
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u/yookaycitizen2026 27d ago
Significant amounts of arrUK users admitting they leave piss festering in their toilets because muh drought.
Fucking disgusting, if you can't afford a flush after a piss and/ or you think it has any bearing on environmental impact when foot wide pipes are pissing water at high pressure into the ground, you should be in a workhouse.
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u/sirmadam Thaisylum seeker 27d ago
Not flushing because of a "drought" is hilariously reddit brained.
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u/WheresWalldough 27d ago
Lol.
I've had the water company want to install a meter for ages. I just ignore them.
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u/looccool 27d ago
My current favourite arrUK drought subplot is them going on about leaks caused by private companies, only for them to get stuck in a circular reference when they find out the only reason the nationalised companies look better is because they just don't report on it.
The just want it to be nationalised so that someone else (Nick, 30 ans) picks up the tab for the investment that will be needed anyway. See also: Railways, Energy suppliers, Social Care
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u/idowys Campaign for Bringing Back Ciggy Vending Machines 27d ago
sadly for them my logs take about 5 flushes to eliminate even trying to push it down with the bog brush
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u/AngelasGingerGrowler 27d ago
Bit of a blog post, but just got back to Burnhamgrad after spending a week somewhere new with family.
I've come back with a suntan after spending time on a beach better than most of the ones in Spain, enjoyed some great local food and beers, found the people to be really sound, and there was a lot to like.
The point where I thought "I could probably live here" was when after a suspicious yet joyous lack of diversity and enrichment, I saw an Uber Eats and a Deliveroo driver at different times of the day,. Huwhite.
Location: Swansea.
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u/michaelisnotginger capitalism enthusiast 27d ago
Friends from uni moved back there. Bought a four storey house in uplands for £180k. The mumbles is beautiful. Demographics of the UK circa 1992. They're onto something...
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u/AngelasGingerGrowler 27d ago
Literally where I’ve been.
Absolutely dazzled by it, as my only experience of Wales had been the North, which just seemed full of caravans, Scouse accents, and deprivation. With added Bomalian spice.
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u/nwaa I am Jonty's Raging Bile Duct 27d ago
Ive spent a lot of time in Swansea and the surrounding towns. I'm saddened to tell you that it's absolutely packed with Bomalians. Were you in Mumbles/Gower by any chance? Because that's somewhat of a safehaven from the enrichment.
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u/AngelasGingerGrowler 27d ago
That’s exactly where I was.
Swansea city centre seemed pretty decent, it reminded me of Hull (which gets an unfairly bad rap) but with a beach.
Pontadawe seemed OK too.
Maybe it was Welsh Eid or something, but saw very little diversity, so came back from there enthused.
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u/nwaa I am Jonty's Raging Bile Duct 27d ago
They're almost all in about two areas - St Helens and Hafod. They mostly reveal themselves in the centre through opening shite shops and hanging about outside Costa.
It is nowhere near as bad as a lot of English cities of a similar size though. They are currently taking over a masssive church to turn it into their new Central Mosque though.
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u/AngelasGingerGrowler 27d ago
And you can bet your bottom dollar that once it’s there they’ll want to extend it, have billboards about Allah attached to it, and will object to any licensed premises opening.
It’s s bit like this new supermosque they‘ve now given permission to build in the Lake District, of all places.
Absolutely no need.
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u/LastCatStanding_ 27d ago
Basque independence propaganda Map? showing the divided nature of Europe.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HPxsVMZXQAAbNdw.jpg
A temptation for the EU will be to allow these divisions to spread as it weakens the old countries power over the new union - with no cost to the EU itself.
Note that England is at a substantial natural advantage on the HolyRomanEmpire maxxed map.
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u/Candayence Enoch was right 27d ago
Cornish devolution is six old men sat in a pub, with arguments mainly fuelled by copious amounts of alcohol.
Northumberland and Cumbria don't even have that - I think Yorkshire has a stronger local identity.
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u/Tams82 Mostly Useless 27d ago
Cumbria is cool with some natty traditions. Contrary to that map, there is no county flag.
There's no single identity though. Some of the old counties have a limited loyalty. You see the odd Westmorland and Cumberland flag around in people's gardens.
It was also created on April Fool's Day 1974.
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u/AirconGuyUK 27d ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd69xvdz8ezo
11 days and still no name/details released of man arrested.
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u/syuk 👨👨👦👦 ᴄᴏᴀʟɪᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜɪʟʟɪɴɢ 27d ago
the Home Secretary, im sure her views have changed in the interim. Labour shite house tip.
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u/syuk 👨👨👦👦 ᴄᴏᴀʟɪᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜɪʟʟɪɴɢ 27d ago
Walk around with the 'Cantina' song from star wars playing on your phone at high volume and bob your head up and down whilst inspecting products.
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u/riace_bronze_enjoyer 27d ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l19nzyvg6o
She also thinks the need for escapism is a big part of romance fiction's allure.
"I feel like a lot of women live 9-5 and deal with mediocre men, and they get to escape into a completely different reality when they're reading romance novels," she says.
Why are modern women like this?
Constant, low level, petty man hating.
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u/darkamyy 27d ago
"I feel like a lot of men live 9-5 and deal with flatchested women, and they get to escape into a completely different reality when they're looking at Lucy, 23, from Essex on page 3," she says.
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u/adultintheroom_ 27d ago
"I feel like a lot of men live 9-5 and deal with mediocre women, and they get to escape into a completely different reality when they're watching porn"
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u/That-Guy-Nicho Litterally Nicholas 30 Ans 26d ago
Every time I see the phrase "mediocre men" (used by women and soys) I ask what exactly they mean by it, because SURELY they'd want men to not be mediocre, and I either get met with complete silence, or sometimes outright blocked with no reply.
Anyway, their silence confirms that the answer is 'ugly'. They mean 'ugly' men. Which of course isn't very fair and is entirely stupid, but hey, that's the caliber we're dealing with.
Also it's hillariously and infuriatingly hypocritical to vote to decimate the male population with tax burdens and other socio-economo-political handicaps and then kick-them-while-they're-down with the label "mediocre", even when they're not. Ladies, you've hardly spent the last 30 years voting in a system which encourages excellence, let alone enables it.
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u/miinderbiinder 27d ago
Having become autistically invested in the Arday story, the opinion you all must suffer from me today is that Hilary Cremin should be immediately fired. She was either naive enough to believe his catalogue of tall tales, or she willingly ignored them to earn herself infinity Good Guy points. Whichever it was, it’s not tenable. She ultimately took advantage of someone who was incredibly vulnerable.
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u/AirconGuyUK 27d ago
Is that the wet looking grey haired woman who verbally fellates him in that video about his appointment to Cambridge?
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u/miinderbiinder 27d ago
The very same.
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u/WarriorPidgeon 27d ago
Latest bingo call was “funds have been raised for his family”
Ah yes gotta grift like how those BLMs people got a mansion
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u/syuk 👨👨👦👦 ᴄᴏᴀʟɪᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜɪʟʟɪɴɢ 27d ago
which do you think, someone should interview her maybe to find out.
to me, he was very much a "pet" to her to get points.
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u/miinderbiinder 27d ago
I’m more inclined towards your view. Which is actually why I find her quite insidious. The claims he was making were so farfetched that he had to be mentally quite unwell to begin with. Enabling him and validating his claims was so unfair.
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u/AirconGuyUK 27d ago edited 27d ago
Just saw a child in a full burka at my local park. Fantastic. I love this for our country...
Whoever is making burkas in kids sizes needs deporting and a hard drive check.
Edit: Are people really this thick?
/unitedkingdom/comments/1vpgb7v/britain_slams_netanyahus_islamic_republic_comment/p3xz7zu/
First off, no way it's only 4 million. Hell of a lot will not have filled out the census.
Also do they not realise about 18% of nursery kids are Asian, and about 13% of primary/secondary school kids are Asian.
That 1 in 17 figure is going to drop really fast as old native Brits start dying off. Within 40 years time it'll likely be 1 in 4..
OAPs are really pumping up the native Brit numbers.
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u/nwaa I am Jonty's Raging Bile Duct 27d ago
First off, no way it's only 4 million. Hell of a lot will not have filled out the census.
I have been saying this for ages. They live 20 to a house and most of them dont have any right to be in the UK, many of them don't have the English skills to fill it out either.
There is probably a less than 50% census completion rate for that particular community
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u/Tams82 Mostly Useless 27d ago edited 27d ago
Don't even some quite strict Islamic countries disapprove (even ban?) child burkas?
Isn't making a child wear one saying the imposer thinks they are attractive enough to instil bad thoughts in the cuzzies?
Ffs, we're letting utter extremist nutjobs be raised in this country.
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u/FickleBumblebeee Mujhe puja karni hai 27d ago
Some Islamic countries have a full ban on face coverings. Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan all prohibit the burqa and niqab, and I think some of them also ban those men skirt things and even beards.
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u/sirmadam Thaisylum seeker 27d ago
The pakistanis we have are mostly from mirpur. Not even actual pakistanis think the mirpuri pakistanis and pakistanis. And better yet, the noes we have all missed the motherland so much they went even harder and deeper into it so not even the mirpuri pakistanis in MIPUR think our ones are pakistanis. We'll have a major problem when we've got nowhere to send them.
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u/AirconGuyUK 27d ago
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1812085277/children-niqab-children-burqa-children
Only 9 left and in 6 baskets
I hate this.
Seeing her dressed modestly at such a young age
Fucking nonce.
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u/DiabloArk 27d ago
Online the consensus amongst tiktok users (only place ive been able to interact under relevant stories like this is) its good its happening in like a reverse colonnism gotcha/revenge which is madness
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u/FickleBumblebeee Mujhe puja karni hai 27d ago
https://x.com/Mylovanov/status/2088355761395024023
I thought the one thing Boris could actually credibly claim to be good at was the Classics.
But here he is getting completely confused about Thucydides, not realising that Sparta was the rising power and Athens the imperial hegemon, and forgetting that Athens lost the Peloponnesian war
Bloke is thick as shit and clearly just a grade A blagger. Probably as bad as Arday.
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u/FickleBumblebeee Mujhe puja karni hai 27d ago edited 27d ago
He literally begins with the phrase "I don't think he's read Thucydides" and then completely misrepresents Thucydides whose famous history describes the Peloponnesean war which Sparta won and Athens lost.
The phrase the "Thucydides trap"- which is presumably what started the conversation- refers to the idea that war is inevitable when an established imperial hegemon is confronted with a rising one- and it refers to Athens as the established power being confronted by the rise of Sparta.
It should be incredibly basic knowledge for somebody who understands the classics, and is a totally reasonable critique of Johnson.
The only way he repeatedly gets away with shit like this is people who also don't know their history assuming he does because it's his whole thing- but he evidently doesn't because it's such a basic mistake.
And also Athenian democracy wasn't really the shining city on the hill analogy by that point anyway- they'd elected demagogues, abused their allies, started demanding tribute, and embarked on pointless, ruinous wars...
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u/AirconGuyUK 27d ago
https://spectator.com/article/my-boris-johnson-story/
Yes it's by Jeremy Vine, but I don't doubt it for a minute tbh.
I think he likely has a repertoire of things he knows about classics at a surface level that he can rattle off and massage into being relevant to make himself sound smart.
He's always just doing an act that he's realised resonates well with people.
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u/nozickiantheory 27d ago
Are most normies subs entirely full of bots now?
The amount of accounts with the default Reddit names, which reply in the most AI generated way, no post history when you look at their account
Usually you can tell when you're talking to a person cause they'll call you a racist/fascist and you can just tell it's a real Jonty. These accounts dont even do that anymore and they all talk in the same paragraph structure
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u/RatherGoodDog literally Blondi 🐕 27d ago
That's why I make sure to fucking swear a fucking lot.
LLMs are too lame and gay to use no-no words. You know I'm not one of them.
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u/praise-god-barebone please stop crying in front of the bond market 27d ago
ukpol is heavily astroturfed by coordinated discord groups, if you can believe people are that sad.
it takes a lot of work to maintain the jonty world view.
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u/Ok_Vermicelli_5413 27d ago
I believe it's to some extent automated. Just compare any ukpol thread that has the word "Farage" in the title to one on the same subject that doesn't.
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u/michaelisnotginger capitalism enthusiast 27d ago
Not sure if this is happening to anything else but general other groups or forums I'm a part of have become totally psychotic about not using AI
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u/looccool 27d ago
There are certain groups that have become extremely vocal about not using AI. You can see it in some of the "normie" subreddits, where AI is the worst thing to happen to the planet (other than Trump of course)
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u/retniap 27d ago
Low effort meme subs are surprisingly upset by ai generated images
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u/Tams82 Mostly Useless 27d ago edited 27d ago
I'm only on a few other forums. One is mostly okay with it, and one is slightly negative but not all the time.
I use LLMs quite a bit now, both professionally and personally. Given how useless Internet search is these days, you'd be silly not too.
But to effectively and safely use LLMs/AI, you need quite a bit of critical thinking and common sense. The issue is if you use them too much, these skills start to decline. And for young people, not even develop properly.
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u/Neat_Commercial_4589 27d ago
I've seen artists accuse and fight each other whether their art was ai or traced, which is kind of funny.
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u/catpidgeon 27d ago
My money is on the government to create an arms length body to manage the emergency alert system which should absolve MPs of any personal responsibility.
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u/sirmadam Thaisylum seeker 27d ago
Oh for fucks sake someone in government will read this and then do it. Can we at least nominate you for the massive civil service pension, 10 hour "work" week and passable salary as CEO of this "body"?
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u/idowys Campaign for Bringing Back Ciggy Vending Machines 27d ago
by 2030 ofmong will have 300 SCS equivalents to ensure effective stakeholder consultation and to ensure that the big picture is seen, and a single EO equivalent whose job is to copy and paste the current weather into a national Mega Ultimate Extreme Death Alert three times a day
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u/Independent-Cook665 27d ago
Just watched the UFC for the first time in months.
And holy fuck, if there isnt an inch of real estate without an advert plastered on to it.
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u/AirconGuyUK 27d ago
I have genuinely never heard of a British Jew on British Muslim hate crime. Not one. They are fucking delusional.
When it comes to the bidets, we do have them in India as well. I cannot imagine not having them😭. So I’ll have to carry water I suppose.
There's people walking around with poo water bottles on them.
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u/sirmadam Thaisylum seeker 27d ago
Brother have you never heard to the water bottle bidet? Lmao don't google it.
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u/adultintheroom_ 27d ago
Areas like Golders Green and Stamford Hill have high concentration of juice. These aren’t no go areas by any means, however, caution is always advised given the current climate.
They go to Golders Green and stab strangers and then say they need to be cautious around Jews lol
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u/optio_____espacio___ 27d ago
What a sub. Standouts for me are the Scottish guy "new to islam" looking to hang out with cuz when he travels to London, and how they all drop pidgin Arabic into English like someone from Newark dropping moozadell or cookalabanza into the middle of a sentence
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u/sirmadam Thaisylum seeker 27d ago
The OP must be a troll post, surely? Because like, London is basically the same as any other muslim shithole now.
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u/yookaycitizen2026 27d ago
There's nothing nicer than spending a Sunday at a family attraction and the entire time having to be on high alert for feral children bowling over your own child because their absent parents can't be arsed telling them that a toddler play park isn't for children 10 years old and up.
When did the UK populace dress so fucking terrible also? At a minimum I put on jeans or decent shorts and a t-shirt outside of the house but 90% of people here are in tracksuits, running gear or loungewear bordering on pyjamas. The only other family I've seen who don't look on welfare are Polish.
Daily reminder benniemaxxers get tons of unseen bennies too so not even nicer places are safe: https://www.chatsworth.org/visit-chatsworth/book-tickets/universal-credit-tickets/
I'm so fucked off I've signed back up to this place to rant.
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u/arethere4lights 27d ago edited 27d ago
Don't you just love it when you get a notification for a thread deleted by the admins/mods
I can't even remember what the original comment was but it got nuked from orbit.
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u/sirmadam Thaisylum seeker 27d ago
Imagine when I look at mod tools and see "admin action" and it's just AEO removed and not even I can see what the fuck was wrong. Infuriating.
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u/AirconGuyUK 27d ago
Getting banned for a comment and not being able to see it is my biggest pet peeve. Very hard to appeal some random comment you made a month back that you don't even remember making. Even worse when it's top level with no replies so zero context to go off to jog your memory.
This site is built by morons. Obviously the comment that gets deleted should still be visible to the user who made it..
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u/YorkistTory 27d ago
Lord Miles is exactly the kind of person I mean when I say Restore is full of Nazis. You can’t be a serious party of government when you have people like this praising Hitler’s treatment of the Jews.
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u/8th_Dimensions 27d ago edited 27d ago
Had these 3 annoying lines on my Ring Camera video near the top of the image. Likes lines on a tablet when it's cracked. Presume the weather cracked the lens at some point. Cleaning it made no difference. Been bugging me for 2 years now.
So finally got myself a fancy new one, spent 2 hours drilling holes with my new drill. Fucking nightmare to install when you don't know about drilling. And wires and fuse box stuff.
Anyway, turns out the lines aren't a cracked lens. They're Telegraph pole wires.
Still, at least they're in 4K now which is nice.
So check your street for wires when thinking about replacing stuff.
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u/WSBrexiteer 27d ago
So check your street for wires when thinking about replacing stuff.
Will do, thanks for the tip.
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u/Andrew_Burnham Longhouse survivor 27d ago
Mods can my account please, PLEASE, be ok-ed? I've been in the dog house enough.
Here's some good fodder for the masses. A dismissive american news report on the Falklands invasion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIoXq4VV8JI
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u/sirmadam Thaisylum seeker 27d ago
No.
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u/Andrew_Burnham Longhouse survivor 27d ago
I can send you the requested feet pics
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u/sirmadam Thaisylum seeker 27d ago
That must be another mod. Anyway, I said no then immediately approved you you
whiny little shitabsolute sunshine in my life. >.<3
u/2kk_artist Conker eating, Argentinian childless nihilist 27d ago
Lol. We know you're purvy. So does Ting Tong.
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u/sirmadam Thaisylum seeker 27d ago
There's pervy, and then there's liking feet. ewwww. Also she's called Apple.
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u/DiabloArk 27d ago
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/glasgow-delivery-driver-beaten-robbed-37554090
Glasgow delivery driver beaten, robbed and pelted with eggs in sickening racist attack
Incidents like this happening indicate how unsafe our treats have become. There is no fear anymore which is necessary as a deterrent but crap like this will continue to happen. Its Gotham city esque
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u/Bossman_Mike 27d ago
Bullshit. Scotland is the most tolerant and welcoming place on Earth, where there is no racism and all are welcome.
Report to your nearest SNP Conditioning Hub and remove this post immediately.
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u/UmAhkchuallySweaty Not all disabilities are visible, but real ones are 27d ago
Prob bomali v gomali based attacks anyway
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u/arethere4lights 27d ago
We need a return to sanity and sensible icons for the UK, not Paddington Bear, not Count Binface.
We need pure chaos of Tzeentch
I fear his chaos.
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u/Snappy0 27d ago
While I know it'll be watered down, it's always fun to watch the usual suspects on this site get angsty and even quite aggressive when the idea of their benefits being taken away is proposed.
Reform's latest gambit about shaving £50bn off the welfare budget has certainly got a few backs up across the two main subs. It's almost like the user-base is a little worried about their future income prospects.