mannycalavera

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Trickle down economics! BINGO!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I was expecting this to be published in the middle eastern eye or something like that. The independent? Wowsers!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Ooo never seen these before. They look great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pass that saving down to drinkers and do decent food and then maybe I can get on board. Creeping £7+ for a pint is hard to swallow (no pun intended) on top of everything else.

That pub in the article picture is absolutely gorgeous by the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

You're equating the council bigwigs fiddling with finances for technicality reasons with people who are only trying to advocate for fair financial compensation

No, you've misunderstood completely what I'm saying and are making assumptions. Are you able to point to where I am equating the two sides like you claim?

Would it help you if I reiterated the following:

  • The council's position is not automatically in the right simply because they're the council.
  • The union's position is not automatically in the right simply because they're the unions.
  • The people of Birmingham are living a sanitary and health nightmare right now.
  • With the deadlock from both sides nobody is winning or happy.

So is Rayner's stance unreasonable given this? And it's all right if the answer is no but I'd like to understand why. That's my position. Not something you've dreamt up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Me trying to see both sides of a complex matter.

Great well done, so everyone's wrong and you've "both sided" this.

FML. 🥲

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm melting.... meeeeelting! Oh what a world!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't disagree that austerity hasn't been extremely difficult for people. However how does that explain other cities not facing the same issues Birmingham is facing? Manchester doesn't have the same waste problem. Newcastle doesn't have the same problem. Neither does Liverpool. Neither does Edinburgh. Neither does Cardiff. Have these places not suffered austerity? What is unique about Birmingham that it can't clean it's streets? And is Rayner not right in pointing out that, even if there are differences regionally, it can't be this difficult to come to an agreement to keep your city clean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yeah true. But you can apply that logic the other way around too. There's massive public inconvenience and health issues living in a city that doesn't have waste services functioning so the Unions are using that to force the government's hand. Give us what we want or the city suffers.

I don't think either approach is working, do you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (13 children)

I'm saying is her position wrong? Equally I could say the same about the striking bin workers - are they wrong to be striking? Just because they're part of a union doesn't make their position automatically correct. Same goes for Rayner. Just because she's part of the government doesn't make her position automatically correct.

All I know is that nobody is winning and neither is the city of Birmingham or it's people. It was honestly a disgrace.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Is her position wrong?

Honestly when I visited Birmingham it looked like an actual shit hole. And this is supposed to be the second city?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

The US:

Brown people dying..... nah it's cool nothing to see here.

White people dying...... The fuck you just say you fucking fuck?

 

Kinda politics, kinda culture. Definitely both. Thoughts?

 

Is the EBU going to ban Spain do you think?

 

I'm pretty sure we didn't vote for less queueing, FFS Keith!

 

Don't think anyone is surprised by this.

 

Are you ready for chlorinated chicken in your kebabs? Doesn't bother me, I'm vegan. Thoughts? What do you think Labour have won (or given up and dressed up like a win)?

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