HumanPenguin

Last effective protest was the women's pay movement in 1968. Where all women at the factory strike. Plus many other female employees throughout the UK.

It was effective in that the law changed. Equal pay for women passed as a lawin 1971.

Question Then became is the legal requirements enough.

David Tennant as paddington might be more fun.

Yeah interesting how our first attempt at democracy. Was started by and failed due to. Religious fundamentalism.

Given only wealthy land owners could vote. Hardly democracy.

They were far from effective.

This is absurd.

Yes Palestine Action broke the law by damaging insanely expensive property. And like any protest that dose this. The right or wrong of the cause has no effect on the legal requirements of the actions.

CND, Greenpeace and many many other protest organisations have also commited expensive crimes over the decades.

When a government starts deciding what citizens can or cannot support rather the how. It is no different to banning book or speech.

Unfortunately. They need red ties now.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

Likely town halls and or GP offices.

Or leisure centers where local Auth ownership still applies. But not many of those left outside London.