This years extinction rebellion , who will they be next year, unless they get glasto tickets of course.

UK to teach common sense on new school curriculum , warns expert.

Like Major T.J. King Kong in Dr Strangelove you mean?

https://youtu.be/snTaSJk0n_Y

And yet most local authorities see them as a target for budget cuts, Demonstrating the blinkered short sighted priorities of most local bureaucrats. I am always amazed that councils in the UK do not see the benefits to them and the communities they have duty of care to, of maintaining and caring for parks and green space. The knock on effects of setting such examples could be increased crime, increased care needs, increased mental health treatments and so on. All these paid for by local authorities with our money, costing more than simply taking care of parks and leisure spaces. I am a former park keeper and greenspace maintenance worker, and have worked for public and private organisations. I have seen first hand the cuts with decreased staff, decreased equipment and the exclusion of whole areas of greenspace from maintenance.

whats the point, we’ve already eliminated the wildlife.

The obsession with slaughtering millions of chickens every day, on nothing more than a factory production line. Birds deliberately mutated, filled with hormones and water, just to satisfy someones snack urge is obscene. Chicken has become a mere product. Eat chicken if you wish, but relentlessly promoting it as cheap food is wrong.

I so wanted to make what would be considered a racist comment, shame on me.

I just don’t trust the police mate, couldn’t care less what sex, race or religion you are.

SO this is specific to police radio earpieces, and no other kind of in ear pods?

I’m so happy he is not happy. America is very good at starting wars and then letting everyone else deal with the consequences.

Without further information, this is a fairly useless number. How many are mentally ill, Immigrants awaiting Asylum, addicts unable to access support services, looking for a job but can’t get an employer to take them on without an address, same for renting. Veterans? Illegal Immigrants? just saying rough sleepers tells me nothing. Is it supposed to be shocking? A surprise?

So he says he has learned lessons from Iraq? And I heard quite a lot about “legal action” on the radio this afternoon, does this mean he will be seeking to arrest Tony Blair ?

The UK should have kicked the USA out a long time ago.

according to Global Military, the UK is only 1.5 above Iran whilst the USA is 24.8 above on their index. I find that concerning.

A tangent I’ve been down myself, I think recent climate action groups protests have shown how ultimately ineffective this kind of antagonistic attention seeking protest actions are. Pink yachts and stopping traffic causes more avoidance of the issue supposedly cared about. I’ve always thought the only way to get any kind of productive attention from governments or large corporations, or government via large corporations is to interrupt the flow of money. If one dislikes big oil, get a bike. All that being said, when I was an angry young man I took part in my share of protest marches, marching for the very rights now enjoyed by the people we are commenting on here. I wonder if I would advise that youngster to march again,now I’ve seen today’s protests?

Without getting into the politics, this is the kind of act that makes groups with perfectly valid claims and arguments unpopular with the public. These are intelligent people, why is it so hard for them to understand that whilst I might support them for their beliefs etc, now I will not.

Whilst I do not condone this nasty practice, I think some responsibility must be placed with local authorities. The availability of legal disposal sites has decreased significantly, and the cost to use the remaining ones has increased. My local tip for example has banned all vans and commercial vehicles, this was not the case a few years ago when commercial vehicles simply paid a reasonable fee. If there is no viable legal option, what will happen? Fly tipping. Local authorities have been cutting all types of waste management, including household waste, fortnightly bin collections for example? Also here the number of litter bins has decreased, and the remaining ones are always full or overflowing, Councils see waste disposal as a first hit for budget cuts, when this is backward thinking.

Similar in Scotland still, except flush with the ground in a rubberised floor, this could be worse? Ground lever must increase potential for high speeds? I remember these monsters, and much bigger than this photo…

Ah, the glory of privatisation. Show me a single public service now privatised that has improved in any way, water? rail ? Telecoms? the list is long.