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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…)

I completely agree and think you can’t arrest everyone but I don’t see that happening though. Look at the numbers on the street. If more people surrounded them so they could not physically leave, it might be different. What I see is a few brave people trying to stop them and not succeeding, and everyone else staying inside or filming from afar

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.

They won. They got exactly what they wanted, plus anybody who tried to intervene got arrested along the way. From the headline I thought it would be more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZcoXdZeabA . There’s still massive problems here and our version of ICE have got away with a lot but thankfully nowhere near this stage

This has blown my mind, I love it. I never thought there would be differences between countries but it makes sense given we don’t even agree on what sound they make

Oh man, I had no idea. I really appreciate you letting me know

I haven’t got it yet so not sure but good point I’ll need to check! He can handle the switch without removing the sticks. Is it even bigger than that?

You need healthcare for all your life, not just when retiring. Why wouldn’t you want to live and work in the state with healthcare if it actually works out cheaper for you and less risky? It’s a completely false economy to live in the other state with no healthcare but have to pay high insurance rates and have high deductibles?

I don’t even know what these are, what am I missing out on?

Prescriptions are just under £10 and this pill was £25-£30 without one, but you could just turn up at a pharmacy and get one with no fuss

That’s really sad, feel especially bad for the kids who were with her who are going to feel this for the rest of their lives

What about a computer monitor instead?

It does drive me mad when you see governmental bodies still using X and Facebook. I know you need to be communicating with people where they are but also you shouldn’t be giving ad revenue to fascists!

Suggests to me they are not choosing to leave