mdwhite999

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The CPS only does this for England and Wales not the whole of the UK. In Scotland the procurator fiscal prosecutes crimes and in Northern Ireland it is the Public Prosecution Service

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Can people please put the country in the title. I have read multiple headlines thatjust say "court decides" with no explanation of what court or jurisdiction. Australia is not the only country where the employment status of Uber drivers is under question

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can someone please explain why a railroad commissioner is an elected position?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Close the sky is an amazing phrase to be able to use

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like there are 2 related arguments against this. One is that it could motivate political prosecution to disenfranchise people. The second is that it kind of creates a slippery slope, if treason disenfranchises you why not murder, or rape, or election fraud or whatever other crime someone considers serious enough

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Correction. English children will be taught this. Education is a devolved matter in the UK so this will not apply to the other parts of the UK

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We do. It's called the Equality Act 2010. It requires reasonable adjustments for disabled people. However, this is not always provided for in reality. The equality act is mentioned in the original article

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a crazy amount of money to me as someone from the UK. A party running a candidate in every seat in a UK general election could not spend this much money campaigning

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't the 1st interracial kiss on TV. By some metrics it was the 1st in the US but other countries had earlier kisses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_interracial_kiss_on_television

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I wouldn't really call the Labour party progressive

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

This reminds me of how Eeyore is treated in Winnie the Pooh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

One thing that I am really disappointed by is the lack of any meaningful reform to gender recognition. Like they pay lip service but they still want to keep the requirement for a medical diagnosis and they don't want to recognise non-binary people. I don't love the term red Tory because I think it's inaccurate but to me this is one are where Labour are closer to the Tory party than they are to other left wing parties

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