It’s all going well - everything is fully-funded and ticking along nicely.

We did it for feddit.uk, worked out fine - the main hassle was contacting the AWOL Admin. Then it was a matter of starting the transfer of the image files and going off to do something Interesting.

And PieFed and Mbin are also sort of “Lemmy” (though neither in that graphic that I saw:-).

It is quite an old graphic.

In Labour’s election manifesto, Starmer said he would “end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds”.

But not on day one, they need to hire and train more people to process the claims - it’ll pay for itself. The Tories not doing so seemed like deliberately creating a problem they could then utilise for their own ends.

I think they are harming their argument by calling it “austerity” when the Budget is pumping money into hospitals and schools, starting to reverse the harm done by austerity. Yes I want them to go further but Corbyn did propose going further and lost the election. You have to be in power to enact change.

Labour haemorrhaging votes to progressive independents and Greens in their heartlands should be a lesson to this government: you are wrong to believe that progressive voters have nowhere else to go.

Here in Liverpool the Greens are second place to Labour in the majority of seats. I’d like them to win a few just to put Labour on notice that they can’t take vote for granted.

As long as there some movement on Northern Powerhouse Rail then we aren’t so arsed about HS2’s northern extension.

At a push, the first punch could be claimed to be self-defence but continuing after the other guy is on the ground is going to be difficult to explain.

Earthcrab

There’s currently a lot of eyeing each other up while Russia and Ukraine slug it out. China is just waiting to see what happens as it is waiting for everyone to take their eyes off Taiwan for a moment. However, everyone is waiting to see how America’s Two Face flip of the coin goes as one result may unleash mayhem.

OK

So we’re decent when it comes to fisticuffs and not adverse to nicking stuff from our defeated opponents. Sounds par for the course.

Health secretary Wes Streeting will vote against the assisted dying Bill, raising concerns that palliative care is not good enough for patients to make an informed choice on ending their life.

I suppose he’s right - if palliative care isn’t good enough it may force people to end their lives early. Sort that out and come back to this. I’m generally in favour of assisted dying but with the right safeguards and support, but the latter isn’t there right now.

Mr Farage declared on his register of members interests that the flights and accommodation for the trip came to £32,836.

That’s quite an expensive little jaunt he had there.

“Hi, my name is Donald, how can I help you?”

“Sixteen assorted milkshakes, in a bucket, please.”

Farage almost didn’t stand in the general election because he wanted to be in the US helping Trump. It’d be interesting to see how much time he has spent there vs time spent helping his constituents since.

That’s a lot (of nonsense), I don’t know where to start.

Cross post to !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

That’s what I was thinking. If it’s dangerous to send back someone who is gay, then it is dangerous to send back someone who is very publicly perceived to be gay. In some ways, the publicity from this case has made his case stronger.

The IFS’s deep dive on the claimant statistics reveals that claimants were younger and their claims increasingly focused on mental health. New awards made to under-40s more than doubled from 4,500 a month before the pandemic to 11,500 last year. Over the same time period, the percentage of all new awards primarily for mental health conditions went from 28% to 37%, an increase from 3,900 claims a month to 12,100 a month.

Anecdotally I saw a lot more mental health issues emerge in the children I know who were going through secondary school during lockdown and a lot are either now at university (or planning on which to go to) or have recently graduated.

That’s your ticking time bomb and needs to be addressed ASAP. Fiddling with benefits or introducing changes in the workplace or job centre seem like rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic. What they need is faster access to better quality health care. Every example I know of involved a long fight to get a diagnosis and in most cases their treatment under CAMHS was inadequate (they got more help at university). So if the government want to invest to improve the lives of younger people then this is where it is needed.

And could this same generation also be at the sharp end of the explosion of AI replacing a wide set of entry-level jobs - in call centres, retail, law, the financial and creative industries and much more. Britain’s biggest corporations are racing to implement effective AI solutions to handle everything from customer service to their marketing output.

These transformations are happening more quickly than had been expected, affecting everyone from entry level front-line workers through to highly skilled professionals such as art workers, media planners and legal clerks. It will inevitably become a significant reality - perhaps the defining social and economic change over the course of this Parliament.

And that seems like the elephant in the room. Call centres in particular are going to be hammered (as will fulfillment centres) and a lot were established in areas hit by the collapse of mining or heavy industry. When they go, there will be nothing left in those communities.

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