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Trans women are women, says Keir Starmer in call for legal reform

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/trans-women-are-women-says-keir-starmer-in-call-for-legal-reform-6rk9tpxsl

But then when in power

Starmer does not believe trans women are women

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crldey0z00ro

“So this is who [Labour] think should lead their party? Says it all.” Stratford and Bow MP Uma Kumaran said: “Grim.”

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I wonder if they are going to change the stupid system of pumping money into failing schools until the are "outstanding" and then slowly reduce funding because they obviously don't need it, until the school is failing again...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    This is the point I don’t really get, if their licence is days away from issue anyway why would Reeves meeting with them be a problem?

    Because financial institutions, including the BoE have a lot more on the line, and need to keep reputational appearance even if politicians don't care because they will be out on the streets before the next election.

    What's Reeves hoping to gain from this, while making claims of "cutting red tape"? It sounds like simple political interference, and as such she can fuck off.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Generally the BoE makes a lot of sense, and I don't see anything here that would change my position. I haven't seen whether Revolut has had their licence upgraded from limited yet, but that has to be due any day now that they've had their 1 year limited trial to prove operations.

    When you are dealing with peoples money, I don't want these things to get rushed, and Reeves saying things like

    Reeves has placed cutting red-tape on the financial services sector and other industries at the heart of her mission to turbocharge the UK’s faltering economy and has blamed over-cautious watchdogs for holding back growth.

    Financial services is doing great. Probably one of the best performing parts of the UK, why don't you concentrate on literally anything else, like taxing unearned income?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    There are a lot of Euro financial initiatives that the UK financial services drive and adopt, such as Open Banking and Open Finance.

    Don't mistake the UK being outside of the EU with Financial Services in the UK, they see big picture plans and generally ignore the smaller petty politics.

    In this case, as Wero gets adopted, it's in their best interests to support it otherwise there is a risk that customers would not be able to purchase when travelling and what's the point of adopting that risk when you could just support it?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There is the point where if the person had valid identification, and National Insurance, and was paid via HMRC, that the onus should be on notifying the business of a change of status. Whether that's the student or HMRC I don't know. They would notify the business on a change of required tax.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Didn't I read on here that one of the root causes is deer populations. Herds without predators are grazing away new shoots.

    We should probably increase the amount of land allocated for forestry, and introduce some predator's. I think it could make rambling more interesting if there is the risk of encountering crocodiles and lions.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Disliking paedos eating at Pizza Express doesn't mean that I don't have legitimate problems with leeches on society.

    As for the quote, you are quite wrong. We criticise the king all the time, and refer to his brother as a nonce.

    You don't mean king, you mean despots can't handle criticism.

    Fuck the king.

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