As far as I can find from Hansard, no reform MPs d took part in any of the debates of the bill in parliament where they had a chance to put their views across where it matters. Yes, they do not have any power because that do not have MPs but other parties managed to contribute. Only 3 of the 5 MPs voted against it - no prizes to guess who wasn’t there!

Party of incompetent, racist, power-hungry, rich, conniving arseholes.

Surely this is already the case where petrol taxes are higher if you drive more. I don’t think it’s fair for me to not be taxed less in an urban environment considering I drive much less

Not sure I care anymore. The UK is for the wealthy only and we can only try to struggle through, whether it’s through inflation, poorer services or more tax. Until we address the power dynamics, wealth inequality and tax havens (City of London, Jersey, Guernsey, etc), I could nor give a flying fuck what inflation is quarter to quarter. Prices and housing costs are already fucked

I’m really torn about this. We want police by consent and to have some discrepancy to do the right / moral thing but don’t want to give them too much power to choose what laws they enforce. You don’t want Nazi type “just following orders” but you don’t want them targeting left-wing protestors more because they lean right-wing (the Met police at least who let’s not forget, targetted/target women, queer people, black people, etc much more than the right wing)

The laws are made by Parliament and the current labour government should take the full blame for proscribing this group. The anti terrorism laws are so harsh that I can believe the police had no choice but to arrest them.

The absurdity of arresting the numbers they did, the type of people they did, and this £10m cost should have made the government change the law itself.

ABAB - All billionaires are bastards. Case in point (from Wikipedia): In September 2020, Ratcliffe officially changed his tax residence from Hampshire to Monaco, a move that it is estimated will save him £4 billion in tax.

I’m an accountant and tax professional but have always been into computers. I had a social media account breached although it was no issue as hadn’t used it did years. I used a terrible password as thought it did not matter but made me realise I needed to be better generally so started using a password manager.

Then Netflix stopped account sharing. I had just got a 4k TV and only their top level with 4 screens supported it so was pissed off. The fragmentation across services had started so was getting annoyed anyway. This led me to the arr’s.

I decided I could no longer trust Microsoft and hated their pricing structure so was interested in Nextcloud. By then I found the self hosted community (on reddit), bought a desktop PC and after getting the hang of it plus many mistakes I loved my services so will never look back.

Joined the migration to Lemmy. Am based in the UK and joined the anti-US feelings so am setting up more storage, better redundancy and more services for my family. A few family members are interested in helping so can share backups.

Surely you would read the leaflet first to double check it is correct before posting. Everyone knows printers can make mistakes. You check first before actual use. No excuse, they just don’t care about the law

I’m all for this. The arts really suffered for years under austerity and cut backs. Right now it feels like enjoyment only for the rich (who can afford tickets, can afford not to work or nepostism). The UK has deep cultural heritage and needs to nurture and develop it in all parts or society.

Hundred percent agree apart from the fact that it’s only been there last 30 years. It has always been the case but now is on a quicker scale with technology and the complete surrender to international companies (mainly American where consumer rights do not exist). Government responses are there (and we have much more protection here than most of the world) but they are still slow to respond so more people are caught before they can respond.

We need some way to have preventative measures, a change in attitude from the “business community” and actual repercussions.

First though, we need to stop buying from / using Amazon, Meta, Google, etc.

These came for a reason and after people were fucked over:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ale_conner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weights_and_Measures_Acts_(UK)

I saw one last week in suburban London. It is fucking massive. I’m used to bigger cars on our roads but this monster dwarfed my hatchback and the other days. It could barely fit in the lane and was left hand drive so must be imported. It’s absolutely insane for somebody to buy that and ride!