@Mastering_life_ Your fair share of what someone else worked for is how much it takes to erase the educational and social inequality you were born into.
That's government's job, to make personal choice the determinant of how you prosper, not the place you were born.
@Mastering_life_ Really profound and worth reading. But fundamentally flawed in saying this path is equally available to all.
A disadvantaged start is a handicap for life.
Government needs to eradicate that disadvantage, then let personal choice apply.
That takes some income redistribution.
@AaronBower British are always happy to leave out Northern Ireland.
British Lions include no Irish players, only the British and Irish Lions include Irish players.
Accuracy, please.
Right, language matters and nobody gets off with a thing here! Let’s get real in a calm way. It would be surprising if a UK Prime Minister wasn’t a unionist. It’s ok for Keir Starmer to be a unionist. And four nations chat is fine in that regard. However, you can’t ignore that a significant chunk of the people living in the north/NI don’t want to be part of the UK, feel a connection to that, vote for that, or want their future as part of that. The language about a mandate from all four nations is odd when you consider nobody in the north/NI #GE24 voted for the UK Labour Party. UK Labour doesn’t stand for election in NI. There was no visit here during the last six weeks. UK Labour has a sister relationship with the SDLP (who want Irish unity). SDLP also has a connection to the Irish Labour Party.
Anyway, for fullness, the Conservative and Unionist Party stands in a handful of the 18 constituencies here during election, gets a teeny tiny percentage of votes, and have zero elected reps at any government level here.
The British Irish “reset” is about what’s good for everyone so the important relationships at present are as follows:
1) The UK government & Irish government as respectful neighbours, partners and coguarantors of the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement.
2) The UK government and the FMs, Executive and Stormont parties.
3) The UK government and the wider public - republicans, unionists, and others.
@scottp1964@Dylan_Difford I think it would be the last, with fewest seats in each electorate. In Australia it's one seat per electorate in the Commons with STV
The Aus model would be closer to FPTP than the multi seat models. But it still enfranchises smaller parties and their voters more than FPTP
@therealbigjonno@SyedChristina@jonsopel In the same way one can rationally and civilly abhor the acts of Israel without being antisemitic, but if one bundles Jews into a stereotype associated with unacceptable behaviour then one's words become antisemitic and unacceptable.
@therealbigjonno@SyedChristina@jonsopel "phobia" addresses more than disagreement.
Anyone can rationally and civilly disagree with the philosophy and tennets of Islam without being Islam phobic.
Stereotyping and bundling all followers of Islam pejoratively falls within Islamopgobia.
@guardianfilm The Guardian review refers to Spice as a "mineral" resource.
The books clearly indicate it is a biological product, related to the worms, possibly a type of fungus or other microbe. But there is no indication it is mineral, and therefore finite.
@ArleneFosterUK Yes, it is grotesque, unconscionable, wrong.
But where is your outrage over Israel's gross over reaction and slaughter of Gaza civilians, and your compassion for those civilians.
You lose power and respect by being so unbalanced.
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@SIOUXIEWOO @SovietSong23 @robinmonotti His eminence in HIV research warrants listening to him. But his eminence in HIV is based on published peer reviewed research with good data.
Until he presents reviewable, and reviewed, data then it sounds like a slightly crackpot diatribe.
@pourqua@robinmonotti No evidence at all for Ivermectin being effective.
All the big manufacturers of Ivermectin would be onto that data like a shot if it were genuine. Imagine the profits. But they aren't.
Why? Because no data to support it.
Facebook click bait.
@da_ben_dan@iwillwinalways Characterisation of the people who rejected Yanukovic as "right wing fascists" has no basis. So, factually inaccurate.
No evidence that democratic elected Zelensky government has done any of this.
So, you appear to be a troll looking to irritate people, and spread untruth.