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I can't speak for the whole left, but I think generally we don't particularly love our not live Islam, we just think everybody should be cared about. Tbh the activism around trans, LGBTQ, specific ethnicities etc is just that, activism by particularly interested people, it's not the whole left. I'm not a fan of this lumping the left together then pointing at the fringe activists. Now I realise you might come back to day I do the same with the right. Perhaps I do, I'll give some thought to that. But reform as a movement tends to be behind the things I rail about, rather than fringe groups. That's my excuse anyway 😁

I'm not okay with one and not the other. Most the England flags that have gone up are cheap Chinese crap that looks ropey AF. These are separate things.

So part of the campaign meant politicical parties trying to gain support by talking about the interests of the local people and through displays of national pride? How does that differ from reform and the endless ropey looking English flags flying everywhere?

Can we just unpack this. Asylum seekers are housed minimally (even where hotels are used they don't get access to normal hotel services, food etc). They don't get benefits, they get a small amount of money, much less than benefits, to survive with. They get healthcare like everybody else, you surely don't think we should let them die? They are not allowed to work. Other countries allow asylum seekers to work so that they are able to contribute towards their own costs. Would you agree that would be a sensible change? In reality asylum seekers come from a while variety of backgrounds and would inevitably have skills that could be useful. Let them work to offset costs and suddenly it doesn't seem so bad.

Yes

Unfortunately, an area held by labour since 1931 is nowhere near the top of its target seat list. They've shown an ability to take a lot of votes again, even somewhere pretty pretty leaning. Of their 15% of the vote, 2/5th came from labour. Quite. Trying to appeal to reform voters clearly isn't holding their party coalition together. They get smashed by the Tory press every day no matter what they do so start spending some money on fixing the lives of ordinary people please. Leaving Burnham out will prove to be disastrous if starmar ends up out of the job in the next year too as I think he's labour's personality with broadest appeal to the electorate. For the Tories, they are in disarray down to 2% of the vote from 8% previously. Any talk of a banenoch improvement smashed to smithereens.

Terrible footballer. Can't wait for us to reset our strike force. They certainly don't deserve that title currently.

Well if I read it wrong my apologies, I'm not sure what else you meant by it though 🤷 I wonder whether you might be doing the same thing by assuming by comments to be a sneering attack though, as I wasn't feeling particularly sneery while writing it? Anyway, let's agree to disagree and move on to avoid escalating our little tiff 🤝

Lol how is that a personal insult? You keep trying to be funny about any criticism of labour being labelled far right, which it isn't by the way, in a way that very much makes it look like you're personally afronted. It's a bit ridiculous. So while you didn't say it, that's how it looks. It's not a personal insult, just an observation. I have no reason to personally insult you. Let's end this here as even this conversation is a bit ridiculous.

No, you didn't, you're just acting like it.

All this far right nonsense you're coming out with is a bit pathetic TBF. The right is called out as far right when proposing policies which were BNP policies 15 years ago. At no other time. You're really not a victim of left wing over-reaction. As you'll know being as left wing as you are.

Yes, failure to vote sensibly will be the undoing of the left. Clearly there's a centre-left/ left wing majority in the area, but by splitting the vote it could let reform in.

Him and JJ together looks a mouth watering prospect at this level. After the season we've had it's nice to have the flicker of something to look forward to.

It's his first proper season in the team. His breakthrough year. You can't seriously compare him to the long in the tooth pros he's stood next to. He's doing a really good job for his first year. He'll only get better with experience.

This isn't remotely true is it? Capitalism is a system. Being an entrepreneur, having a business, selling things, is not solely related to capitalism. That's a mistake of understanding I often see made. A Harvard study found that innovation has always relied on government support. Government plays a foundational role in driving innovation, particularly in high-risk, early-stage research that leads to major breakthroughs like the internet, GPS, and mRNA technology. While the private sector often leads in applied development and commercialisation, government funding supports a significant portion of foundational patents. At the same time, the UK had the most extreme version of capitalism in Europe, whilst simultaneously having quite a significant number of the poorest areas, and some of the richest. Huge wealth disparities are very much part of late stage capitalism.

BBC News - Energy bills to fall in April in price cap change and charges shake-up - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lpl9lxw2o

Ethical question marks to be raised if you take their batteries out first

Most sensible post. Nothing to add to this.

An element of that yes. But the form of capitalism followed in the US and UK is extreme and directly leads to the problems we see.

Why is it always ultra capitalism US/UK style, or communism? Why do we always ignore the counties operating in between very well? The Scandinavian countries show one way.

We're a country currently luxuriating in stupidity. I saw a social media thread yesterday where somebody has worked all their life, lost their job, and now it's asking how to claim benefits. Somebody else jumped on them as they work for a living and don't ask for handouts. We're a country of people that hate people and would rather see our neighbours fail than get something we don't.

Jesus Christ calm yourself. Leicester has been a cultural melting pot for decades before this occurred, fuelled by liars on both sides and I'd be amazed if right wing agitators aren't also pointed at in the full report. So communities living side by side fine, as we see in Leicester all the time, until agitators whip up problems.

It is, but sometimes it's funny to look at historic posts.

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There's unlimited money in the world. It's a human construct which is created out of thin air by central banks. We can have nice things, it's capitalism that's stopping is organising the world fairly because it's entire reason for being it's to fund capital.