Chris Gerhard :bt: / is on Nostr

One time cyclist. Solaris developer, ZFS, mdb. Forever European 🇪🇺in the UK

Cycling: I bloody love cycling
Solaris: Pays the bills
Long Covid victim: makes me an ex cyclist

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2024-09-07 10:26:59

The thing the tories have never understood, or understand and are dishonest about it, is regulation is good for business.
The only people who don't like regulations are the people who are fundamentally dishonest. The lack of decent regulations tips the balance in favour of the dishonest, the people after a fast buck at the expense of their customers and or employees.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/07/labours-plans-to-boost-workers-rights-widely-supported-by-managers-poll-says?CMP=share_btn_url

2024-08-16 12:11:40

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you mistyped "prison" as "Retirement home"

2024-07-02 18:32:36

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you should see them dealing with the Fiat 500

2024-06-26 18:41:16

ok. So why are we allowing such dangerous vehicles on the road?
Why do we have vehicles that don't stop automatically if they hit a fence?
Why do we allow massive 4x4s at all. There's no need in Wimbledon or for that matter most country.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw4448xx4keo

2024-06-24 12:04:14

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we are not even that far forward. Currently rejoin is entirely aimed at the UK because nothing will change until the UK decides it wants change. That is step 1. Obviously, then the EU has to be persuaded, and the UK has to align, but theyare future steps that can't even start until the UK has decided to rejoin.
There's no benefits to the campaign to rejoin to fighting any battles now except the one to pusuade the UK to want to rejoin.

2024-06-24 11:54:24

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I disagree.
The starting point for rejoining is to show there is a desire to rejoin. We won't get that if the campaign opens with "it's going to be really hard".
Once we have a groundswell of support for the principle of rejoining, the issues of rejoining can begin to be addressed.