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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Likely town halls and or GP offices.

Or leisure centers where local Auth ownership still applies. But not many of those left outside London.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

and routinely fucked over Brit

Stop bragging. You will get blamed for your government funded sex life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Honestly. I think the current gov is significantly to the right of Cameron on immigration, disability rights and equality in general.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

9 years now post ref. Of UK govs and media arguments.

"The UK should not follow any forign rules"

Hardly surprising the one thing that requires some agreement on unified rules. Every trade agreement ever signed.

Is not something anyone trust the UK on.

It stuns me the % of Brits who seem to fail to understand. Ensuring simplification of products meeting each others rules is the main point of any trade agreement. Taxes and fees. Really represents very little challenge compared to that.

And all the EU trade issues the UK has faced since Brexit. Relate to the cost and complexity Brits and their customers face proving products are made to the very rules, Brexit twonks keep complaining about and wanting to remove.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Wow a potentially positive move for a change. Depending how it's funded. And how the huge staff shortages (enhanced by new NHS immigration rule). Limit it.

But for 40 year the NHS has had centralisation into big city hospitals. Increasing the cost difficulty and CO2 footprint of mobility limited travelers to get help.

Moving more specialist care into local community centers. Would be a huge positive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

people in the higher tax brackets

Translation: wage slaves.

Anyone in a income tax bracket is not the people the left is talking about. That is the effect of billionaires owned media distorting the conversation. And as a slave to that media High wage earners fall for it and distort the conversation every time.

Over the last 40 years. Post 79. The wealthy have taken a much larger % of GDP growth while paying much less often 0 tax.

They do this in many ways. But most often by running all their income through multiple corporations. Then taking money out as personal debt. Look at how musk funded his corporate purchases. They use the asset value of big corps. Tho gain such low interest. It is way lower then any tax bracket.

The media then argues fixing this prevents mum and pop businesses competing. While those very businesses are disappearing into debt scams like this. Purchasing the competition. Then pulling huge dept income from it before selling off all assets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Pretty sure some guy gets paid to play Thor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

This is just insane. Since the Windrush. The NHS has had a high dependency on immigration. Mainly due to our own lower pay of staff. Many qualified British medical staff can get higher paying work elsewhere. Both foreign and non NHS UK jobs. This is why multiple governments from both parties haver always offered NHS training and employment as a way to encourage immigration from lower paying nations.

If the gov does not have the funding (wish to raise taxes). To pay NHS staff and UK care staff a wage that competes with higher paying jobs in the UK or aboard. This will directly lead to a collapse of the NHS. With ) benifit to the UK.

Except Maybe gaining privatisation of the NHS. Exactly like the Tories have been trying for decades.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Agreed. But not really practical for this task now.

Last mile has always been an issue. But hugely more so for any Public figure. Loved or hated. When you consider the density of traffic etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Wrong timeline.

Train has been replaced with other transport. Including high use of helicopters. Over the last several years. But more so since ERII death.

So now it is just a cost sink to store and maintain.

That said. If we ignore shutting the family down. (Honestly we are just now starting to see a majority support for that.) So any effort to do so in the past. Would have failed or been undemocratic. But most of us older folks expected more support for removal post ERII death then we actually see now.

So accepting the job/roll existed.

There are not many ways to safely transport such figures around efficiently. Even if trains were still used. The last mile issue is expanded hugely for public figures. Both due to the huge increase in urban traffic. And lack of smaller stations post Beaching.

That said. I sorta like the image of Charles III strapped to multiple drones. Paradise PD Like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not to mention. The concession is basically. Wait for a report. With 0 requirement to follow the results of that report.

So you can fuck over the support for disabled independence. But must wait a while. If the MPs considered this in anyway a requirement. They would wait for the report before passing the law.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

More like. UK high court dose not have the authority to enforce gov treaties. Only laws as created by the UK parliament.

If the UK parliament allows laws that break treaties like the Geneva Convention. Only other signees of that convention can do anything to stop them.

This whole idea of international law is not really a thing. Just agreements between nations and political will to enforce them.

 

Ill sum this up. Research suggests Untrained dogs pulling causes more injuries than expected.

3/4 of injured are female and mostly over 65.

Opinion: 65+ year olds walking dogs are likely healthier than those not. So the 25m number may be rubbish.

But anyone reading this worried about a dog that pulls. The simple way to stop it.

Spend some time when every time the dog pulls harder than you like. Turn around and head the opposite way.

Dogs soon learn that pulling leads to failure to progress. Takes a few days for most dogs to learn. Then takes a rare reminder for the dog to remember you choose the direction, and it doesn't get to assume.

No need to tell the dog off or punish in any way. Just remind it when on the lead. Trying to direct you to move at its speed will always slow its progress.

 

Not entirely sure how much the register thinks it costs.

To design the first ever commercial man made star. But 220 m for such new science. Designed by researchers and specialists in a brand new field. Seems pretty bloody cheap to me.

As for building it being a pipe dream. We are far more prepared for it then we were the first fission power plants. Without some risk progress stops.

Will it cost more. Of course. But it is also the future of energy independence. And based on the first successful smaller design. So far from a pipe dream.

 

Opinion:

Please bear with, this may get long. I tend to post then tidy when I have had a few option to reread. It's just how my mind works best. I am also visually impaired so miss errors. Please feel free to point any out.


The DWP currently estimates there are 16.1 million people in the UK considered disabled in some way. 24% of the population.

However accurate that number may be. When you add friends. family and supporters. It is more than enough people to be an electoral force.

So the big question I feel the need to ask. Why the hell do the 2 main parties suddenly feel so free to attack this community. Because to be clear here, the last 14 years have definitely been an attack on the disabled community. While despite a number of Labour MPs complaining. Labours leadership seems happy to blame all the economic woes of the UK on our community.

I am not going to get too politically biased here. But for info I am more left wing then current labour leadership, Likely a little less so the Corbyn was.

But this is really no longer a left vs right issue. As in the current UK FPTP system, no left off-centre party has any ability to stand up for us.

The issue is very like any other single issue political problem. Any voters will be divided across other issues. So as long as no one side stands up for the issue above all else. No party has much to lose by ignoring our issues.

But single issue parties have managed to influence the main parties. Simple, by threatening their votes rather than actually winning seats. The most prime examples are UKIP and the Green Party. Neither party managed to get a huge % of voters to support them. Less so in any dense enough area to create enough MPS to have any power. But however much you may like their politics or not. They were able to move enough votes from the main parties to worry them into support for the cause.

So here is a proposal I'd like to hear people's views on.

Is it time for the "Disability Rights UK" Party to form.

Honestly, this is just the start of an idea. And the name is no more than a suggestion.

I in no way expect this party to ever win 325+ MPs, and if it somehow did. I'd suggest we have a declared plan to join the 2nd party to implement the manifesto we come up with. And then call a new election. I personally do not think any single issue party can truly run a nation alone.

I think the more likely event is we can use our approx 16m potential supporters and convince them voting for us across the nation will slowly force the main parties to take our issues, needs, support and input to society seriously. Force them to realise we have an option to come together and force them to pay attention. Rather, than use us as some invisible enemy they can use to satisfy their own needs.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/25880686

If a federated community like this already exists, please point me to it. I'd rather not divide the effort any more than necessary.

I think it is clear to anyone in the UK. The disabled community is now under attack.

This community is an attempt to help pull people together and consider ideas for support and to enhance our voice.

I like many others in our community over the last 14 years. Have enough mental health issues. That I'd be grateful for other mod volunteers who will share the time managing the group. In the hope, we can keep the workload of off to few people.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/25880686

If a federated community like this already exists, please point me to it. I'd rather not divide the effort any more than necessary.

I think it is clear to anyone in the UK. The disabled community is now under attack.

This community is an attempt to help pull people together and consider ideas for support and to enhance our voice.

I like many others in our community over the last 14 years. Have enough mental health issues. That I'd be grateful for other mod volunteers who will share the time managing the group. In the hope, we can keep the workload of off to few people.

https://feddit.uk/c/disabilityUK

 

I am posting this here because it is the closest to a UK specific disability community.

If this is invalid please let me know. While I am not comfortable setting up a UK disability and benefits community alone. I am happy to help run one. It will just need a good few members willing to take an active role.

This post really is to discuse ( and rant) about the proposed changes to PIP the gov is proposing.

What really annoys me. Is the government seems to be getting away with pushing false data.

They keep using the differences in acceptance from 2010 to now.

With 0 recognition that the 2010 rejection rates were seriously flawed. With many winning appeals after being forced to take the gov to court. Where well over 60% were seen as false rejections.

Plus multiple reports of suicide due directly to DWP actions. It really bothers me that no media is pointing out this clearly false data.

While plenty are pointing out the culture war that the tories are clearly trying to start. Some of the charities challenging these distorted claims seems to be needed.

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