abusefreezone.bsky.social
Retired left leaning Labour supporter. Live and let live and whenever possible be kind, you really never know what is going on in other people’s lives.
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I left twitter several months ago as it was toxic, so you may be right in what you say. It is hard to imagine people in the UK aren’t aware of Musk/Trump but I suppose lots just aren’t interested in politics and don’t understand how these things affect their lives. I hope Labour are cutting through
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Maybe but I doubt the majority of those left on twitter can be can be saved, and in the mean time it is supporting Musk financially. Agreed they should be on here.
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More to the point they shouldn’t be on twitter (x)
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Totally agree, I was pointing out the different wording of the two surveys you posted. I am in favour of peacekeeping troops as well.
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One poll is send troops in, others as “peace keepers”. Like most people I’m not in favour of war but if it we have to defend an Ukraine, sovereign European nation so be it. But I might not think that if i had sons of fighting age. Plus most against are reform voters, maybe Putin supporters!
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I’m a Labour supporter but I do love Ed Davies at PMQ’s he is civil, asks sensible questions but still keeps the pressure on social care going as well.
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I don’t know, but I imagine Starmer has been working on this behind the scenes for some time. Just because he doesn’t announce his every move to the press, they think nothing is happening. A step in the right direction
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I certainly agree with that. I would love us to rejoin the EU, I fear the terms of us rejoining would be vastly different next time around, they may even insist we join the Euro and I’m not sure people will go for that. Having said that the situation with Trump and Russia may change things.
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Probation has been a mess since Grayling partly privatised it in 2014. In the 3 years to 2024, 13,000 criminals, (no risk assessment) missed courses due to lack of resources. So something needed to be done, I hope the risk assessment they are introducing is watertight. More staff should also help.
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I think they are right to deport those that have no legal right to be here, failed asylum seekers, overstayed visa’s and foreign criminals, but it upsets me that they are celebrating doing it. Publish numbers of removals if they want people to know but don’t dehumanise/humiliate people as they doing
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They are tackling the basics, the workers rights bill, the renters bill, increased the number of NHS appointments, put more money into education, changed the apprenticeship schemes to encourage more building trainees. We just don’t get to hear about it. There is a lot to fix and now there’s Trump.
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It was the next paragraph in the document you highlighted, so presumably they were from when Johnson was PM too. What’s the point of posting it with a highlighted para if it isn’t relevant to your post. Do you have evidence that Starmer will sell out the NHS and food standards for a deal with US.
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The negotiating objectives set out that any future agreement must protect our
NHS and uphold our high standards on food safety and animal welfare.
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“The negotiating objectives set out that any future agreement must protect our
NHS and uphold our high standards on food safety and animal welfare.”
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I think you still need planning permission to convert a log cabin to a residential building.
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I have looked into this and I don’t think anything has changed. You have always been able to build log cabins, under a certain size. If you want to use it as a dwelling you did and still do need planning permission and pay council tax.
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Agreed, I have a Tate membership and I buy one as a present, so £350 p.a (it doesn’t get much use as we live in North) but it supports the arts. We don’t buy presents we donate to a homeless charity. I would rather pay extra tax than these organisations rely on donations. But tax needs to be fairer
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Blocked him🤷♀️
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Agreed, and I appreciate how long planning permission can take, that definitely needs sorting. But most options are 5 years min (I’ve seen 15) if as you say it is only to ensure continuity of builds, I would argue that better project management is required.
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Doesn’t make it right. I worked in Land Reg for 38 years, I saw the number of these options increasing over the years and the number that were never exercised. I later worked in a sol office so saw it from both angles. It may be good for the developer but doesn’t means it’s good for the economy
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I didn’t say I believed they are “land banking” but that taking options to purchase does that by default. It ensures the owner can’t sell to somebody else without buying out the first option. The options quite often aren’t exercised in the end but it may have blocked development in the meantime.
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They have been there for years but now they have to identify themselves as P.A’s
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They are shortening the length of apprenticeships and giving employers the right to decide whether Level 2 English and Maths is needed.
They are investing £140m into 32 new Homebuilding skills hubs to provide 5,000 more construction apprenticeship places.
It may not be enough but it’s a start
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But that still blocks that land being bought or developed by somebody else.
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Surely that can’t be allowed to happen🤷♀️
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Plus Reforms lies about students bringing parents. The student visa allows “dependants” being spouse and children under 18. They have no right to public funds and have to pay IHS to get free NHS treatment. It is a fixed term visa which can only be extended if they qualify for a graduate visa.
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In Bilboa Guggenheim is free sat/sun. Sevillle between 4-6pm entry to major sites is free. In Madrid we bought a weekly pass, quite cheap, which gave access to all museums and galleries. It can be done in a way that doesn’t exclude those that can’t afford to pay, just needs a thought.
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If you watched every week, you would see that Starmer answers but she doesn’t listen. She awful at PMQ’s and I think Starmer is quite kind to her, he could totally humiliate her but stops at just making her look foolish.
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John Woodcock (Lord Walney) resigned from the Labour Party in 2018 following claims of sexual misconduct which still haven’t been investigated. I think that may be why he has been removed rather than he didn’t like Corbyn.
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Yes those 7 MPs voted with their conscience and against the whip (one is my MP and an excellent one at that). My point is some don’t agree with her but vote in favour rather bills than risk their position. If they don’t agree, deal with it in house or resign don’t leak to an already hostile press.
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Starmer is centre left (I don’t agree he is a ‘Red Tory’) and whilst I agree he has got rid of a lot of the ‘far left’ I think there are still some that believe she is too “Tory lite” but don’t have the bottle to vote against so just cause trouble behind the scenes.
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The far left of her own party don’t like her policies, so are leaking against her. Mix in Tories who will smear anybody to normalise their own indiscretions. Add reform who want to divide the country to get power. Top that with a big dose of misogyny from the MSM and bingo we have a witch hunt.
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When we moved into our house, we found settee and chair shapes on the walls, the sellers had decorated around the furniture. They had also disconnected the boiler and put the unused wires inside the cavity walls, took weeks to get it sorted, it was December and I was pregnant, some people are nuts🤯
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They need to be telling the truth. We are an aging population with a falling birth rate. Talking to a group of 6 friends (aged 60-70) our grand parents had 30 children between them, our parents had 19 children, between us we have 8 aged (30-50) those 8 have 2 children so far, we need immigration.
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😂😂😂
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I have just been on the official Labour Party page on Facebook and I can’t see any of the adverts showing people being removed. There are some accounts on here purporting to be official Labour ones which aren’t, could the ones on Facebook be similar. I’m not going near X to check there.
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Agreed, the Tory’s denied them the right and Labour are reinstating it. It is the right to citizenship being denied based on the routes of entry which seems to breach s34 of the Refugee Convention. I’m not a lawyer and maybe Starmer knows better, but even if it doesn’t breach S34 it seems cruel
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Sorry, some of the earlier replies to the original post, not from you I must added, referred to removals and I just assumed that you were commenting on that. I agree that denying citizenship based on how refugees arrive is wrong and may well breach the refugee convention.
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I have read of the bill currently before Parliament and it does comply. I think the proposal to not grant citizenship based on how refugees arrive in the county may well breach it but that isn’t mentioned in the bill.
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I was pointing out that the Tories denied people arriving “illegally” the right to claim asylum. Labour are repealing that, everybody arriving, however they get here can now claim asylum. I agree legal routes are needed and until then we shouldn’t be withholding citizenship based on how they arrived
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Definitely agree with that. The best way to stop people arriving by dangerous routes is to provide safe routes.
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If you read the bill at every stage it says why this is in accordance with international law.
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I don’t think they are stopping people from claiming asylum, just the opposite. They are repealing the part of the Tory ‘23 act that stopped people arriving illegally claiming asylum if they were from a country deemed safe, they all now have the right to claim, obv if they fail they will be return
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I might be wrong but I don’t think these deportations breach the Refugee convention so I can’t see there being many court cases.