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  • Ministers rally round Angela Rayner as she fights for political survival - BBC News

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  • If it was a Tory they probably would have refused to resign and they would have kept their job.

    Very true that people should pay their taxes, I agree with that. So maybe Rayner should have been allowed to pay the correct tax, and any penalties for late payment, and then she could have kept her job.

  • Ministers rally round Angela Rayner as she fights for political survival - BBC News

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  • If you're right then I think Rayner should have been able to keep her job, as long as she paid the tax and any penalties for late payment. Rayner losing her job means that Labour have done the bidding of the right-wing press.

  • It’s official – Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech has backfired

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  • I think it would be good if the UK had proportional representation - it's a shame it's unlikely to happen any time soon. Labour only got 34% of the vote last year, but this gave them 63% of the seats, and that might be one reason why the public is so unhappy at the moment.

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    Tory is a feeling

  • Bringing a "please don't" to a gun fight

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  • Potentially. I think it depends on how they're used. If a country decides to completely disarm itself though, then it's entirely possible that other countries will seek to invade and subjugate.

  • Bringing a "please don't" to a gun fight

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  • I think ideally there would be no nukes in the world, because they are dangerous. But nukes do exist. If western countries got rid of their nukes, then the remaining nuclear countries would be able to do what they like. "Surrender to our demands or we will nuke your cities."

  • Bringing a "please don't" to a gun fight

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  • Exactly. If Ukraine had their own nukes by the time of 2014, or if they had been part of NATO, then maybe Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine.

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    Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2025/jun/18/amazon-boss-tells-staff-ai-means-their-jobs-are-at-risk-in-coming-years

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  • This reminds me of a discussion I was having with Hexbear members on Lemmy recently.

    I was suggesting that perhaps it makes sense for the UK to have nukes, for self-defence against other nuclear countries like Russia, China, and potentially even the US, given their unpredictable behaviour. People from Hexbear got angry at this suggestion. One of them suggested that it's immoral to have nukes because nukes are "threatening civilians".

    Maybe the OP image of this thread is right though: megalomaniacs are not deterred by words, but they are deterred by weapons (such as nukes). Ukraine was invaded because they didn't have enough deterrents. Iran is currently being bombed because I suppose they also didn't have enough deterrents.

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    Britain has escalated the global nuclear arms race – and is bringing us closer to armageddon | Simon Tisdall

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  • It would be great to live in a world without nukes. But as it stands, quite a few countries have nukes. If the UK gave up its nukes then Russia or China could come along and take over the UK. "Surrender or we'll nuke you."

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    Britain has escalated the global nuclear arms race – and is bringing us closer to armageddon | Simon Tisdall

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  • Why are you so upset about my posts?

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    Britain has escalated the global nuclear arms race – and is bringing us closer to armageddon | Simon Tisdall

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  • I dunno what that means. Anyway what's the point of your insults? I mean I could call you a fucking idiot but is that actually productive? Maybe every time I see a post from Hexbear I should just reply "you're a moron"

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    Britain has escalated the global nuclear arms race – and is bringing us closer to armageddon | Simon Tisdall

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  • I think the UK is a democracy but it's a bit flawed (like every democracy I guess). I often think the UK would be more democratic if we had proportional representation.

    Anyway the subject is just being changed, this is a tangent. My original point was that nukes could help the UK to defend itself. Perhaps Europe as a whole can have a shared nuclear capability, starting with British/French nukes.

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    Britain has escalated the global nuclear arms race – and is bringing us closer to armageddon | Simon Tisdall

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  • they’re all gonna need to either be put in prison until they can be taught to value human life, or else be killed

    Cleaners and bus drivers who work in the City of London? Even if you just mean bankers, are they as bad as rapists and murderers? I don't love bankers but I don't think that working for a bank means you need to be imprisoned or killed.

    I hope you have the same level of outrage about the real civilians in Gaza that the RAF has provided over 50% of the reconnaissance overflights for

    Well I think Israel should stop its bombings of Gaza. You're changing the subject though. It's completely possible for me to disagree with Israel's actions in Gaza, while also disagreeing with the idea of nuking the City of London.

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    Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report

    www.theguardian.com /global-development/2025/jun/10/un-population-fund-unfpa-report-reasons-falling-global-fertility
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    Britain has escalated the global nuclear arms race – and is bringing us closer to armageddon | Simon Tisdall

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  • Yes they're civilians. Not just bankers (although I don't think bankers deserve death just because someone on the internet doesn't like them). There will be cleaners, bus drivers, shop workers, etc, and you want to murder them all with a nuclear bomb.

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    Britain has escalated the global nuclear arms race – and is bringing us closer to armageddon | Simon Tisdall

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  • That link isn't working for me. But in any case I can't really change what the UK government does. I can vote but that doesn't really make a huge difference.

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  • Yeah, you're definitely on the moral side of the argument when you fantasise about murdering civilians with a nuclear bomb.

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  • Why do tankies always leap to the defence of Russia and China? Really odd.

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    Hundreds of lawyers call for UK sanctions on Israel over Gaza war

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/cx274gj54xpo
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    How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/may/27/smash-britain-two-party-system-election-labour-reform
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    AI could already be conscious. Are we ready for it?

    www.bbc.co.uk /news/articles/c0k3700zljjo
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    From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/may/23/britain-left-eu-reset-keir-starmer-tories
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    So ends the Keirbot’s immigration week: literally everyone hates it. Possibly even him

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/may/16/keir-starmer-x-immigration-albania-enoch-powell
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    The UK's military spending less with US biz, more with Euro

    www.theregister.com /2025/05/10/uk_ministry_of_defence_drops_us_spending/
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Mike Pence rebukes Trump over tariffs and ‘wavering’ support for Ukraine

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/may/05/pence-trump-tariffs-ukraine
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    Let’s be clear: this Conservative party is dead. Those who killed it should own up so we can move on

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/may/05/conservative-party-is-dead-local-elections-reform
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    Americans, including Republicans, losing faith in Trump, new polls reveal

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/apr/26/americans-republicans-trump-ratings-poll
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    Bill Maher calls Larry David’s satire of his Trump dinner ‘kind of insulting to 6 million dead Jews’

    www.theguardian.com /tv-and-radio/2025/apr/25/bill-maher-calls-larry-davids-satire-of-his-trump-dinner-kind-of-insulting-to-6-million-dead-jews
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    A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right

    www.theguardian.com /news/2025/apr/24/undercover-far-right-hope-not-hate-harry-shukman
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    Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2025/apr/23/nigel-farage-net-zero-new-brexit-starmer-labour-reform
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    The British economy has lost out - and sucking up to Trump will only get Starmer so far

    news.sky.com /story/the-british-economy-has-lost-out-and-questionable-meat-and-cheese-ban-is-a-reminder-of-why-13351552
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    How Brexit, a Startling Act of Economic Self-Harm, Foreshadowed Trump’s Tariffs

    www.nytimes.com /2025/04/13/world/europe/how-brexit-a-startling-act-of-economic-self-harm-foreshadowed-trumps-tariffs.html
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    Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media

    www.theguardian.com /politics/2025/apr/15/liz-truss-to-launch-uncensored-social-network-to-counter-mainstream-media
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    Dining across the divide: ‘He has a very rosy view of empire and colonialism’

    www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/2025/apr/10/dining-across-the-divide-he-has-a-very-rosy-view-of-empire-and-colonialism
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    China calls US a ‘joke’ as it raises tariff for final time

    www.theverge.com /news/646949/china-tariff-increase-trump-retaliation-us-joke