February 1, 20187 yr If *they* can't vote, than where is that 35% Labour vote share coming from? Housing Estates, both Council and private. Contrary to perception, there are lots of areas with people on low paid jobs in an expensive area in both Poole and Bournemouth. There is also the most valuable piece of real-estate outside central London - hello Sandbanks! Very rich and very poor, and lots of middle class well-offs.
February 1, 20187 yr If *they* can't vote, than where is that 35% Labour vote share coming from? Not that your lovely stereotyping really merits a response, but to build on the earlier point about private tenants - Labour did a lot better in 2017 among socially liberal middle class voters, who didn't mind Cameron too much but thought May was presiding over a nasty government of Little Englanders. When did Hove get a seat of its own? 1950.
February 1, 20187 yr 1950. You beat me to it :lol: Having been brought cup in Sussex I can remember Hove being thought o f s ultra-posh. That's why it was such a shock when Labour won the constituency in 1997. The fact that they have held it most of the time since then just shows how much this part of the world has changed.
February 3, 20187 yr Author This is one case where minority rights have not just been equalized, as PC intends, but given preferential status : 'Someone has to make a stand': widow's battle for cohabiting couples https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/ja...rt-legal-rights
February 3, 20187 yr Have you linked to the right article Vidcapper? I see nothing wrong with that article and no indication of any "preferential status" in relation to rights? :unsure:
February 3, 20187 yr Author Have you linked to the right article Vidcapper? I see nothing wrong with that article and no indication of any "preferential status" in relation to rights? :unsure: I assumed this forum would prefer the Guardian version to the Mail one...
February 3, 20187 yr I don't see anything wrong with that article. What are you railing against here? That co-habiting couples should be treated as if they were defacto married? That they already are treated properly under Scots Law? The Guardian?
February 3, 20187 yr This is one case where minority rights have not just been equalized, as PC intends, but given preferential status : 'Someone has to make a stand': widow's battle for cohabiting couples https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/ja...rt-legal-rights Who has been given preferential status?
February 3, 20187 yr Author Who has been given preferential status? I knew I should have posted the Mail version as well... :rolleyes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-53...rtnerships.html Heterosexual couples could be allowed to have civil partnerships under a law change to end the 'unfair' inequality with gay people Tim Loughton brought forward bill to extend civil partnerships to all couples Tory ex minister said this close inequality that currently favours gay couples Home Office said they will launch onsulttaion on how civil partnership work Charles Keidan and Rebecca Steinfeld went to court for a civil partnership Edited February 3, 20187 yr by vidcapper
February 3, 20187 yr What post are you trying to make? This bill and a good chance of becoming law. My own preference would have been to scrap civil partnerships altogether, but extending CPs to all couples is OK by me. However, the suggestion that existing law is discriminatory is typical right-wing Daily Mail nonsense.
February 3, 20187 yr The existing law was a way to attempt to recognise same sex unions without giving them equal rights. That it was left over or not extended to all after equal marriage was attained is sloppy legislating by the Tory/LibDem coalition. It's not a conspiracy against heterosexual couples. You couldn't make this shit up
February 5, 20187 yr Author It's an ill wind... Protests against a pair of Churchill-themed cafes have backfired after the publicity propelled it to the top 20 London cafes on TripAdvisor. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/prot...p-a3757581.html :rofl:
February 5, 20187 yr The existing law was a way to attempt to recognise same sex unions without giving them equal rights. That it was left over or not extended to all after equal marriage was attained is sloppy legislating by the Tory/LibDem coalition. It's not a conspiracy against heterosexual couples. You couldn't make this shit up Exactly right. Those were separate but equal, pandering ro the 4 million Christian base, many i whom don't even have a problem with gay people marrying, this is not America, no matter how much the BBT tried to make it a controversial narrative. I think they shoild be extended to everyone. It is unfair that they aren't ... but it was even MRE unfair that gay people had to hide in secret, then be denied all rifhrs, for hundreds of years, so, you know, not a whole heaping of marma on heterosexual couples in the grand scheme o' things...
February 27, 20187 yr Author Landlords who say 'no DSS' breaking equality laws http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42979242 ISTM this could be easily resolved by having HB paid directly to the landlords, as used to be the case..
February 27, 20187 yr Landlords who say 'no DSS' breaking equality laws http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42979242 ISTM this could be easily resolved by having HB paid directly to the landlords, as used to be the case.. We agree! It's hard to believe I know... Tories can resolve the problem in one quick minor drafting, supported by all parties..... Funny they choose not to...
February 27, 20187 yr OK, local government observation. Dorset has just (at long last, a year late) been given the go-ahead to merge into 2 councils: Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch into one urban council, the rest of Dorset into a large rural-leaning council. This is to cut jobs and make savings based on the economy of scale. Residents of Christchurch demanded (or rather their Tory Councillors and Tory MP demanded) a local referendum so they can go independent (they can't because it small council can't financially provide for anything much). 80% of those who bothered to vote, voted to refuse the joining with Bournemouth & Poole (as they would become a small fish in a bigger pond), but most people didn't bother to vote, presumably because they weren't fussed about the idea, whereas public opinion generally in Dorset seems in favour. Now what's hilarious is the same EU-haters constantly slagging off the leavers for not not submitting to a wafer-thin referendum, and demanding that it is undemocratic for Christchurch to be ignored in its wishes - don't seem to have a problem with Scotland, N. Ireland, London, and many parts of the country being forced out of the EU, and that affects future well-being far more than a minor local government reorganisation does from forced savings from a government they voted for in droves. Loons and hypocrites.
February 27, 20187 yr Landlords who say 'no DSS' breaking equality laws http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-42979242 ISTM this could be easily resolved by having HB paid directly to the landlords, as used to be the case.. Paying HB to individuals was a pretty stupid idea. It's hardly a surprise that the result was a lot of landlords (for understandable reasons) choosing not to take tenants receiving HB.
February 27, 20187 yr Author Paying HB to individuals was a pretty stupid idea. It's hardly a surprise that the result was a lot of landlords (for understandable reasons) choosing not to take tenants receiving HB. Which forces people into B&B, which I would guess is an even more expensive option? :unsure:
February 27, 20187 yr Which forces people into B&B, which I would guess is an even more expensive option? :unsure: Yes it is, if basic needs for children are taking into account. A single person, not so much, but then single people are usually the homeless ones. There were 3 sleeping rough in the car park I use last night in sub zero temperatures. I contacted the organisation dealing with it to make sure they have overnight accomodation available - turns out they do. The church floor next door, as long as they get in by 10pm.
February 28, 20187 yr Author An interesting article I found in the Guardian from 2011 : https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslad...l-oswald-mosley Don't damn the Daily Mail for its fascist flirtation 80 years ago Roy Greenslade
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