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[–] honesthenery@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

What a templet hahaha Poor UK I know you all are not all turdz

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

For example, there's Scottish people.

For now.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Someday they'll form the United Republic of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

[–] LuminousLuddite@lemmy.today 9 points 4 hours ago

You got a loicense for doing nothing m8?

[–] winkly@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] garibaldi_biscuit@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Do not carry trees away in a pram

[–] itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Like to see you try and move a tree then

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago

Social media is now full of a message that seemingly tells immigrants not to rape. Its everywhere and mainly shared by right winners and anyone slightly susceptible to their bullshit

[–] socsa@piefed.social 7 points 5 hours ago

That's good because I cannot even

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I hate that slogan. It's super catchy but also based on an unclean rhyme 😭

[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago
[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 58 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago

Fellow Scarfolk fans. Brilliant!

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 9 hours ago
[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

But wouldn't reporting it to the police be doing, and then someone would have to report me, and then someone would have to report them, and it just seems like it would be better to not.

[–] bad1080@piefed.social 11 points 8 hours ago
[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 hours ago (4 children)
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Wow, this is really in line with what I expect of Labour. Pissing off everyone to the right, left, and center in a way anyone with a brain could predict

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You should not take photos of people in public?

Since when did street photography become illegal over here? I know it is much of Europe, but I was under the impression that we worked under the assumption of no reasonable expectation of privacy in public places.

Or is it just illegal for assilum seekers to do it?

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

In principle, targeting someone and taking photos of them should be illegal, under harassment law.
In practice, this will only apply if you are brown and don't speak very good English.

[–] Nester@feddit.uk 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

How can a Labour government offer up such a freebie to the right? Now the right wing will feel even more justified in their bigotry.

I think the comment in this article from the Greens is pretty decent "We support consent education, but it needs to be universal."

[–] modem_down@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 hours ago

IIUC, the point of the leaflets is to extend consent education, so that instead of just covering the first group below it also covers the second.

  1. UK school pupils. They already receive it.
  2. Asylum seekers. AFAIK they did not previously receive it, which was a twofold problem: a. for the victims of the very small number of asylum seekers who committed crimes against consent, perhaps not knowing how seriously that would be viewed in the UK; and b. for the many innocent asylum seekers tarred with the same brush.
  3. Older adults in the UK. These may never have received consent education, but unfortunately are often reactionary enough to vote Reform if anyone tries to “nanny” them - so they will probably never receive it.

Labour needed to do something to stop the law-abiding majority of asylum seekers having their reputations tarnished by a tiny number of no-goodnik asylum seekers.

IMO, the booklets were a good move by Labour. They will make it easier for thicker members of the public to distinguish between the very few bad apples among asylum seekers (“This guy broke the rules, and can’t plead ignorance because he received the booklet in a language he reads fluently”) and the law-abiding majority.

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 4 points 4 hours ago

They aren’t really left wing.

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

On 10 September, 1976, dozens of children, including every single pupil from class 3, Scarfolk High School, vanished on their way to school. A police operation was launched but no clues were ever found. The children were pronounced dead the following Monday, a mere three days later.

Every year thereafter, the police commissioned their sketch artist to draw, in the style of a school photograph, how the missing children might have looked (albeit with their faces removed) had they not disappeared in mysterious circumstances. This was sent to the bereaved parents of class 3 at an exorbitant cost of £31.25.

In the 1979 class sketch, one parent noticed a small label on one of the faceless figure's clothes that contained a code word only their child could have known.

Under mounting pressure from parents, the police eventually raided their artist's studio and found 347 children in his cellar where many had been held captive for several years. The police immediately seized and confined the children as evidence in a crime investigation, which, after much dithering, ultimately never went to court leaving the families no choice but to pursue a private prosecution against the kidnapper.

As the children had already been pronounced dead and the cost of amending the relevant paperwork was high, they were given away as prizes in the Scarfolk police raffle, which helped pay the legal fees of their sketch artist, who, it turns out, was the son of Scarfolk's police commissioner.

[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 5 points 9 hours ago

well I'm gonna

a whole bunch later though. Just try and stop me by

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago