The biggest extraction of wealth from public to private hands wasn't privatisation of any utility or pumping money into "too big to fail banks" it was right to buy. And it was all fueled by Thatcher's belief that council tenants vote Labour so we should get them to buy their houses.
Denjin
And cut off water to 13,000 people for nearly a week and continues to blame "victorian infrastructure" for their problems despite being in sole ownership of that infrastructure for 36 years and not doing a single thing to improve it.
Or just being plain nasty.
Leopards Fuck Gently
globally all forum sites would just fold up because the UK has a stupid law
They can just block access from any UK based IP address and carry on as normal. Like many of them are doing already, including some Lemmy instances (although funnily enough, not lemmynsfw).
Yeah, where do you get off making out Stalin was the bad guy? Don't you know FDR was mean to an old person once?
Whatever the meme is I can't see it because lemmings.world blocks access to the UK now 🤣
It highlights the hypocrisy at the centre of the UKs policy towards Israel. The hand wringing and pledges to make a hollow gesture if Israel don't stop murdering babies in 6 months time. All the while using British military equipment and personnel to observe the genocide for Israel and selling Israel the bombs and bullets to do it.
You missed the point I was making that the systemic problems with the police mean that collectively they are all bastards.
Albrecht Albrechtson says yes it is far to progressive.