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So a British university in China follows and respects Chinese traditions/ ceremonies /laws and they’re called bad/evil.

I’m assuming the students aren’t Chinese due to the wording of “having to follow the same rules as homegrown students”, so yes forcing non Chinese people to pledge allegence to the political party and attend parades is bad, whether it’s tradition or not. It’s just weird.

It would be equally bad if we forced foreign students to participate in our traditions (whatever they are), especially making them pledge allegence to a political party.

But If there was a Chinese university over here and they refused to follow British traditions and ceremonies and laws they would be kicked out.

No they wouldn’t, they’d turn a blind eye and keep accepting money.

I disagreed with this comment but it shouldn’t have been removed IMO

That is not the ideal that Your Party is set up on. Rules have not yet been agreed.

What’s to stop the members from choosing policy that go against Corbyn’s and Zarah’s vision? That’s what I find confusing. The members might make up a load of right wing policies, then what? Who’s going to step in and go “actually, that’s not what we envisioned, you can’t do that.”?

A party still needs leadership that guides the core principles of the party. If it’s 100% membership lead then what’s to stop the membership being made up entirely of far-right people and creating right wing policies? She’s one of the founding members so her opinions carry weight.

What’s the difference though? It would essentially be the same thing as NATO just without the US and Canada. We’d still have the same commitments. Canada is a reliable partner and it’s only really Trumps reign where the US has been a bit weird but ultimately it’s still a huge strength to have the US within the pact.

Can’t see this being a popular move with the majority of the population while Russia keeps antagonising Europe and the US being so temperamental right now.

My guess is that these documents have to be the same across the UK and so they don’t have the power to officially provide them in Welsh.

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Ta! I wouldn’t mind automating it so it posts it when the email comes in, but it’s just finding the time and energy!

Will I have to sell my kidneys to afford the travel?

There must have been something sleazy about him though even then, that people knew about. I remember watching Jim’l Fix it as a kid and my mum turning it off, saying she didn’t like him but wouldn’t explain why, other than “I just don’t like him”.

They probably already know.

But I hope that it’s his team that has this power, not just solely on him. I’d have to imagine (HOPE) that there’s a chain of command and some kind of playbook that whoever is in charge can authorise and act on whatever needs doing in such situations.

I do like the idea of permits. Landlords must have a permit per property within a local authority (LA) and reject applications if they see fit, such as having too many permits already or blacklisted. The LA should be free to set whatever cost they want per permit. Tennants can raise issues in a centralised portal where the landlord can view them and resolve them, and if they’re not actioned upon or done properly the LA can intervene and start charging additional fines, or failure to deal with serious issues like mould could see the LA taking possession of the property.

The LA set the rental price so landlords don’t just wack up rent prices.

This might provide some income for cash strapped councils without having to purchase their own housing stock and managing it.

There could even be some funds available for well rated landlords that have to use the money to improve properties as an incentive to be proactive in their repairs etc.

I dunno what client you’re using but voyager lets you filter posts by keywords.

Yeah exactly, that’s what I mean.

If this keeps happening then there’s a failure in training or information to station staff, I can’t imagine they’re making this up out of nowhere.

Also, this is a really nice site - no bullshit cookie banner, no newsletter dialog, clean, easy to read site.

This only affects sugary drinks, so their Zero and diet options should be exempt. Although a book I read recently was showing evidence that artificial sweeteners can also drive obesity, so we might start seeing things affecting those drinks too.

They can drink as much as they like. There’s nothing stopping someone buying another drink.

Obesity is a huge public health concern that should be treated seriously and we should be steering our culture into making better health decisions.

Don’t blame the printing business, own your fucking mistake. If politicians can’t even own insificant mistakes like this then they’re obviously not going to hold their hands up when they inventively fuck something up more critical.