@Nini
I'm just an idiot. Far too much politics, not enough furry stuff and goofery, working on a balance.
Migrated from @nini, eggbug forever!
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Recent Notes
At the assination, I was struck as to how two ladies on the podium were left to fend for themselves
@nprofile1q... Surprised they weren't thrown aside or used as human shields.
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@nprofile1q... I wouldn't exempt anything, depends whose Jag that is and why they were going that fast. Still, seeing the butcher's apron flying does make me feel slightly less sympathetic.
How did the #Jag end up going through the whole pub wall like that? Luckily no one was hurt, but were they driving like they were being chased by the #Sweeney ?
(maybe only older folk will get that o...
@nprofile1q... I remember that many a pub I've known in the past were burned down intentionally to claim on the insurance, guess this is a variant of it?
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As we know, workers in the UK are having difficulty with the cost of living while real wages are struggling to reach the level they were last at before the 2008 global financial crisis; many economist...
@nprofile1q... Productivity will always be limited if the results of increased productivity are more and more sucked upwards, let's just call it an engineered crisis.
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Much will depend on the detail, and certainly those who write for Disability New Ser...
@nprofile1q... Is it? It's only a good step if it's purely optional and opportunities are made available that actually accommodate for disabilities. Most folk don't want the insistence of work even on a voluntary basis because it's a reminder of the constant push to get them into work they've been experiencing since they were first diagnosed.
So introducing the 'right to try' work for people on disability-related benefits (by which they will not lose benefits immediately on finding work or taking on voluntary positions) looks like a good i...
@nprofile1q... A "right to try"? What's that supposed to mean, is it like the "right to work" thing in the US which works more like a "right to fire at will" for the employer? I figure "right to try" is veiled "you need to do this or your benefits will be stopped".
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Another 'benefit fraud' that is likely to drive more intrusive attention on the lives of disabled people (drivers & driving carers in this case) with little robust data on the extent of fraud & miss-u...
@nprofile1q... Blue badges have long been a target, petty little people thinking everyone's on the blag for the sake of a parking spot closer to the entrance. Nobody ever seems to concern themselves with why there's so many people in need of a blue badge, only to limit the count available.
Its turn out that 'long-term sickness' as a cause of 'economic inactivity' among young people is often actually being sick of rubbish, precarious, low-paid work.
The UK's preference for low-wage work...
@nprofile1q... Though it's not to say there isn't a long-term sickness issue, Covid has done a lot of silent damage.
Having awarded a major contract to (controversial) data firm Palantir, a growing number of NHS staff are refusing to work with the firm's tools for ethical reasons, with wider passive resistance to it...
@nprofile1q... "Controversial" seems like a very non-committal term for a clearly evil outfit.
Charlotte Church says on the #LastLeg "we wouldn't be in this pickle if there were more women in control of things"
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@nprofile1q... Still need them to not be psychotic neolibs though, having more female identifying folk is good but not if they're just doing the same thing the men before them did.