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We’re that broke as a country that the only policies governments can enact are those which ban something.
🚨 BREAKING: Government to ban under-16s from Vinted, eBay and Depop, claiming the sites can be used to groom children.
• Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is preparing to expand the under-16s social media ban to cover online marketplaces including Vinted, eBay, Depop and Facebook Marketplace
• Officials are concerned that messaging functions on the platforms allow strangers to contact and groom children
• The Children’s Society has reported cases of young users being asked for indecent photos in exchange for money or gifts
• A government source said there is growing evidence that under-16s are accessing these services and facing potential risk
• The move follows a government consultation, appearing to show nine in ten parents back a ban, with two-thirds of young people agreeing under-16s should not use at least some platforms
• Regulations are due before the end of the year and the changes are expected to take effect in spring 2027
People shocked that no constituencies in birmingham are net contributors seem to be skipping over the fact this is entirely the result of government centralisation and anti Birmingham sentiment. Stretching as far back as the 50s , for example 1958 - Tory board of trade banned
People will call you crazy but if you look into it the anti Brum / anti west midland agenda from successive governments is insane.
The shear amount of corruption behind the HS2 project would probably make even third world countries wince.
"Could be serving Euston in nearly 20 years" is fucking embarrassing.
London to Birmingham was originally supposed to start running *next month*, with the full network to Manchester and Leeds in another 6/7 years (which now isn't happening at all).
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To be able to afford the tutition fees international students have to be rich, how are working class british graduates supposed to compete with people who can afford to move to where thje jobs are in the country. many british grads can barely afford uni let alone relocation
Always feels slightly sinister the way they frame it as if they’ve done some noble act of service. You’ve not done an act of charity you’re here for self benefit and following the rules isn’t an achievement it’s the bare minimum?????
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From an empire than spread across half the world to Space's Bin men. Seems about right for our national decline.
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No grad jobs or jobs in general for that matter but yeah focus on this mate.
You know that feeling when you book a flight for 50 quid and somehow it ends up costing 100?
Getting seats together, correcting a typo, another charge here and there, it all adds up.
When the cost of living is already squeezing people, those endless extras can feel relentless.
So we're changing the rules for you.
Parents won't need to pay a penny extra just to sit next to their own children.
You'll be able to fix any name errors on your booking free of charge.
And because the last thing you want once you're on the plane is more stress, we're working with the industry to make sure that disruptive passengers who have been banned from one airline can be banned from flying with other airlines too.
I know holidays are expensive and these are small things, but hopefully they'll make your trip just that little bit cheaper and easier.
That's exactly the kind of thing I want this government to keep on fixing.
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Equivalent of telling someone who wants to go to New York to fly to Washington DC instead. What's the point
It might have spare capacity but it is 190 miles and 3 1/2 hours away.
Heathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world serving a world city. You can't pull the regional inequality card on this, it's totally irrelevant.
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What a miss. How is now the time to cut back on military spending 😂
I am often asked what my priority would be if I was the prime minister. 1. Build 5 large modern day prisons. 2. While the prisons are under construction I would recruit 10,000 police and place them through a detailed training program to make their jobs recognised professionals. 3. While the prisons are being built.Recruit prison officers and make and pay them into respected professionals. 4. I would find the money by cutting back on military expenditure. In fact I would offer soldiers to apply for police or prison officer jobs. 5. My understanding of asylum seekers is that if they are trying to leave an oppressed county where they are in danger, they are supposed to go to nearest safe county. The people arriving on the shores of the UK have passed through plenty of safe countries. I would ask the Royal Navy to stop them arriving. Comments please . No jokers thanks Lord Sugar
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Scratch beneath the surface and it won’t take long to see how anti youth the tories are. Also just a dumb policy 😂 how about focus on why there’s anyone (which there shouldn’t) doing this at all
🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch has pledged to ban young people from claiming Universal Credit straight after school
She says the Tories will also make young people "the responsibility of their parents" rather than taxpayers
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