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How would you know that the goalposts keep moving? We haven’t hit the target yet. Wider point you’re deflecting from is people don’t take to the streets for shits and giggles, protests happen because people aren’t happy and stop when their grievances have been addressed.

Without being a dick, maybe they want it hush hush because it’ll drive up the price for replacements and we shouldn’t be posting it if we’ve all been told not to? (Not me, I know nothing,’the royal we)

In America certainly the protests have always had clear demands around bringing the policemen responsible to justice and then later around police reform which is an ongoing changing discussion from what I’ve seen. I’d agree there’s less clarity here, beyond solidarity with the yanks. As I’ve...

Is it? If you accept we aren’t there yet and therefore have never been there, how would you know? Maybe when we get there all the minorities stop giving a shit? I mean look at gay rights, hardly a political football at all, accepted everywhere and as a result gay people rarely protest or vote as...

Imagine if we’d spent that on schools. Four times the budget for Building Schools for the Future. Or health. 400 new hospitals. Or ten times the promised amount extra for the NHS over the next parliament. Or mental health. Almost 20 times the annual MH budget. Or police. Could recruit...

Get it done mate, hospitals aren’t full of sober, medically trained people with a crap ton of cleaning and PPE supplies. At this point probably a load of immune staff too. You’d be in more danger at Tesco or the pub IMO. Sorry to hear about your health problems, hope you see some improvement.

Islamic terrorists are fucking useless anyway, wouldn’t be surprised if it was someone thick enough to turn up when they shops aren’t open.

My dad grows blueberries (or did haven’t been down the garden this year), pots are huge I remember lugging them down there. Probably 40-50cm across? Bushes maybe 1m around? Guessing from memory here. When I get my own place I want to grow. Mostly for the taste (tomatoes especially) but with...

Exposure is the only way. Once the sight of a black person isn’t comment worthy, or you know more black people than the kid that robbed you and what you see on the news it goes away. I worry that as a society we are getting less integrated though. Not just black and white but poor and rich...

With you up until the last paragraph. Though I’d argue if I complain to the Police people would see that as a legal complaint even before the CPS decide to prosecute. Two possibilities here: one is a bunch of people have a “narrative” and are “perpetuating myths” one can only assume for...

Do you also think Breast Cancer Awareness should be All Cancer Awareness? Or even All Illness Awareness? Or Everyone Awareness? International People’s Day instead of International Women’s Day? Why is it just BLM that needs to be inclusive of everyone?

How many do you reckon we need? 1 Main thread with serious well thought out answers 2 decoy threads with comedy replies only That’ll do at worst, ideally need one for confirmed signings and where they’ll play but individual threads can do a job there in a pinch. I’d like to see a thread...

Agree completely.

I mean to be pedantic (as that seems to be the order of the day), state aid rules are EU law, it is a legal matter. The EU explicitly call it “legal” in their description What is state aid? European Commission This is a very very weird hill to choose to die on.

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On school buildings, this would obviously need planning which puts it outside the abilities of the current government but seems to me we’ve got empty university and college sites all over with students learning remotely, surely they could create some extra capacity? It doesn’t seem an...

I know you don’t mean it, but I have to laugh at basically “some of my best friends are black”.

What help is saying All Lives Matter? What’s the motivation for saying it? Because it comes across like a spoilt child upset someone else is getting attention at best. I know some outright racist people. They are the only ones who get visibly upset when BLM comes up. After a while if it walks...