mdwhite999

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[–] mdwhite999 10 points 7 months ago

Close the sky is an amazing phrase to be able to use

[–] mdwhite999 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel like there are 2 related arguments against this. One is that it could motivate political prosecution to disenfranchise people. The second is that it kind of creates a slippery slope, if treason disenfranchises you why not murder, or rape, or election fraud or whatever other crime someone considers serious enough

[–] mdwhite999 11 points 8 months ago

Correction. English children will be taught this. Education is a devolved matter in the UK so this will not apply to the other parts of the UK

[–] mdwhite999 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

We do. It's called the Equality Act 2010. It requires reasonable adjustments for disabled people. However, this is not always provided for in reality. The equality act is mentioned in the original article

[–] mdwhite999 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is a crazy amount of money to me as someone from the UK. A party running a candidate in every seat in a UK general election could not spend this much money campaigning

[–] mdwhite999 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't the 1st interracial kiss on TV. By some metrics it was the 1st in the US but other countries had earlier kisses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_television

[–] mdwhite999 2 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't really call the Labour party progressive

[–] mdwhite999 17 points 9 months ago

This reminds me of how Eeyore is treated in Winnie the Pooh

[–] mdwhite999 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

One thing that I am really disappointed by is the lack of any meaningful reform to gender recognition. Like they pay lip service but they still want to keep the requirement for a medical diagnosis and they don't want to recognise non-binary people. I don't love the term red Tory because I think it's inaccurate but to me this is one are where Labour are closer to the Tory party than they are to other left wing parties

[–] mdwhite999 7 points 9 months ago

As someone who works in Morrisons this wouldn't actually be the case. They pay everyone the highest level of minimum wage already so this wouldn't be a change. I know they aren't the only company that pays everyone the 21+ minimum wage

[–] mdwhite999 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That isn't actually true. The price on the shelf is considered to be an invitation to treat. By taking the item to the checkout you are offering to buy it which they can reject. In practice they will sell it to you for the price on the shelf but this is not the law

[–] mdwhite999 7 points 10 months ago
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