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[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

PIP was created by the Tories in 2010 entirely as an austrrity attempt to decimate DLA by removing working age claimants. And making it harder to claim.

It also resulted in 10 years of Tories losing court cases were a huge % of us claiming we're forced to take DWP to court over refusals. And won.

The Tories literally gave the task to private companies and financially advantaged them to reject claimants. Resulting in out right lies on huge numbers of investigation being submitted to DWP. While leading directly to 100s of disabled people commuting suicide. And the DWP hiding the reports proving this for a decade.

Labour is just trying a new method of what the Tories failed.

Heck they are even openly comparing to the highest tory rejection years Vs years were we won court cases years later. As the main dates for their claims the numbers have gone up.

Did you some how fail to read any news over the last 15 years?

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

The UK Tends to warn not ban travel.

We have levels of warning that equate to. You are all on your own if shit happens.

Down to the be very careful to follow rules level the US is currently under.

But proscription of travel only happens in a open we are at war setting. And rarely even then,

The US on the other hand will do it for political disagreements. Like Cuba.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I asked what they did to cause it. Not why it happened.

IE How did having the Tories in charge. Directly help building companies not build. That was not possible with labour in charge before 2010

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

As much as I hate to give any Tory the benefit of doubt on anything.

His main argument.

"Nobody has yet provided me with an alternative that was available at the time that would have saved more lives,"

Dose sound like a reasonable question to ask.

This was before the availability of fast testing. And before any nightingale hospitals had been build.

Hospitals were overloaded staff wise. Even with all non urgent care stopped.

Their was a well documented lack of PPE. So hardly possible for the gov to do more to help care homes keep residents more separated.

At the time. Their really dose seems like very little else he could have done.

BUT:

The NHS did have plans and resources for pandemics. plans the Tory party removed support for during austerity.

Not to mention the risk of a pandemic has been a well known one since the mid 1990s. Yet still the Tories considered shutting down the minimal support the NHS had. As a tax saving measure. (Because allowing the Tories to keep low corp and capital gains taxes was the real reason).

Yes the report and HandsonCock never considered this as a cause.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Given this is total house building. So basically how willing or able private construction companies are to build.

I'd be interested to know exactly what the Tories did to discourage private building.

Personally I'd rather blame the development companies who have been openly accused of limiting building numbers. To increase profits value of properties they do build.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

and routinely fucked over Brit

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

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

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

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure some guy gets paid to play Thor.

 

Fund Britain's Waterways is a group of 30+ UK waterways charities unified in an attempt to change the government's mandate to reduce waterways funding for the next 15 years.

DARFA has recently announced its funding for the canal and river trust. Their statement is available on the link shared.

But a fair summary is.

We spent ages evaluating the value for money we get from the UK inland waterway's system. Where we proved, it was a great value for money investment in both national health and our environment. But despite finding no evidence to support the idea. We will carry on with our original plan. Reducing funding by £300m over the next 15 years.

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IC-7100 mk2 (feddit.uk)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by HumanPenguin@feddit.uk to c/icom@feddit.uk
 

Noticed a couple of people claim to have received comments from icom.

Indicating their engineers are working on an update to allow continuation of supply.

Very happy with mine. Works perfect ad a radio for my small narrowboat.

Will be interesting to see exactly what parts they are having issues with supply of.

I also wonder if anyone has ever looked into creating a 3rd party replacement head unit. Seems likely the main control from head to base. Is a version of CI

If so should be possible to build a simple colour display head. Using something like raspberry pi with a display and encoder dial.

 

A place for member to tell each other about themselves.

 

Welcome we now have 50 members. 2 have kindly offered to help mod this community.

I have updated the rules. More to help define the community we are looking for here. So please check the side bar. The basic gist is friendly and helpful.

Please share you desires for this community as well. Ask any questions and share any suggestions.

Hopefully we can build a place for anyone interested in the UK inland waterways to come share or ask questions.

Also if any one knows of history related blogs on the UK waterways. I'm always happy to read on it. So please share.

Over time I'll add a collection of liked sites related to our waterways, to the side bar for others to checkout.

 

OK. We know many boats have pets. We also see loads of wildlife along the canals and rivers.

This thread is a spot to share these critters with the community.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by HumanPenguin@feddit.uk to c/narrowboat@feddit.uk
 

Hi we want a polite and friendly environment within this community. Moderation here basically just involves removing inappropriate content/comments. And removing persistent offenders from the community. If you feel up to this task as you are reading through. Please let me know.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by HumanPenguin@feddit.uk to c/narrowboat@feddit.uk
 

If you fancy a nice banner. Feel free to place links to pics of your boat etc here. Ill randomly select up voted ones and post them as banners to the community. Till then you will have to tollerate my little scuffy boat.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by HumanPenguin@feddit.uk to c/narrowboat@feddit.uk
 

This is a friendly community to discuss subjects related to the UK inland waterways network and the boats that use it. Feel free to ask members for advice on living or leisure within the waterways network. Boat repair handling. Anything related really.

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