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As much as I hate the austerity cuts across the board. I believe this is a good idea as long as the money stays in the UK and has proper procurement rules, which I would trust labour to do better than the Tories, and can't see Reform or Greens being as good.

It would lead to growth as a lot of that money would go to wages of UK employees and come back as taxes. Plus we need to be realistic about not relying on the US. We have strong university education and should build back up our engineering sectors.

It was illegal but not enforced at all or followed by the locals, so not followed by anybody else either. During the day was fine but in the evening and night it was like there was no law

Really? And did they self regulate their fees? Oh wait no, it took EU enforcement to cut down their fees and stop businesses passing them onto customers. The EU also enforced more security regulation, and more use of those by the banks themselves using these credit card processors who washed their hands of levels of security

Yeah, went to Spain, and woke up with a sore throat and really smelly clothes. Took me back to before the ban and realised how good that was for everyone

I use a curve card which links to existing credit cards. Their app allows me to add it as a payment option for NFC on my fairphone with /e/os

Honestly, it's so much better. The main roads are clogged up but can see no difference to before with those, they were always bad. I haven't seen any difference in driving times. Our road is so much quieter so seen kids playing on the street (not often at all but the roads are still setup for cars of residents), and the drop constant noise that I didn't notice until it had gone.

I think the next step should be to flip from it being a road with a small pavement to a shared communal area with priority for people, space for kids to play properly and actual green space. There could still be enough road to get to houses and car spaces. When the road was closed for that jubilee party it was so nice! Saw way more of my neighbours and all the kids were out playing together. Can't see it happening though...

The tourist stated that no Israeli soldier has ever committed war crimes. I imagine that some soldiers from every country in the world with a decent sized army has had someone committing a war crime. Aren't there military prisons for this reason?

I'm British and know for certain our army has committed war crimes. I've protested the government for their military plans, and sent several letters to my MP. I'm definitely not going around defending every thing the government does.

The complete lack of awareness and certainty they're in the right is really strange to me. Fair play to this hotel owner for doing this - highlighting that people in the rest of the world sees this country in the same light as Russia should open some eyes. If that happened to me it would make me think hard about what we are supporting.

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Sorry but the UK position is definitely wrong. Our kids get 6 weeks off just in summer, plus 2 each at Xmas and Easter, plus 3 x 1 week during half-terms. It is a challenge to cover these when working full time where the average holiday allowance is 5.6 weeks in total.

Nice idea but very poor execution

Are US citizens allowed to join the armies of other countries? I'm surprised by that

Anything on social media or news gets shared here. Most of our media is biased and owned by the ruling / capitalist class. This is not new at all (see: Brexit and Nigel Farage).

However, in reality there are multiple LTNs across cities in the country, especially in London. They are generally well accepted by local people but they aren't very vocal about it. I think most of the cities have charges to drive in for higher emission cars. They're here to stay but doesn't make a good headline that they continue on.

Even in my heavily pro-car, suburban area, roads are finally being dropped to 20mph and they're introducing school roads / other restrictions. There's long term plans to reduce roads and introduce more cycle lanes (several years behind London Boroughs but going in the right direction...)

As much as I don't want this, I'm really unsure where we go as NIMBYism is so prevalent everywhere I've lived in London.

Every single development is challenged by existing house owners who don't want their "views" (what view - of the A3 overpass?!?) and the impact on local services and transport (something that could be fixed and actually help - my train line is absolute shite because nobody uses it, more use might actually help). Meanwhile, potential buyers aren't involved in these because of the way local councils work.

Let's not be binary and try to work on good sites for building houses, whether inside the green belt or outside.

Plus, the "green belt" is full of motorways and dual carriageways, derelict industrial sites, and lovely but completely unaffordable leafy mansions owned by the super rich.