Title is clickbate.

I think devolution of powers should be considered first. Ignore the Lords initially because they dont really matter in the grand scheme of things. When the Tories really wanted something they just submit it several times until the Lords couldn’t say no.

We have good examples with Wales and Scotland, and so geographically we should do the same to England and split into 3 regions.

Southeast, Southwest and North, where in this context the “south” stretches up to Nottingham. Move the Commons to either Birmingham or Leeds, and limit their powers to the overarching national policies that would normally also cover the UK. Voting for the province would be AV, and Commons would be PR or STV. Although we should probably devolve more powers, which would get more traction if we were able to have better representation.

The statements were

Buy local

or don’t buy honey

If you are buying local then you’ve already satisfied the first half of the OR. It’s an option, if you aren’t prepared to buy local then don’t buy but also not buying honey at all is an option instead of buying honey.

Buying non-local mass produced honey is not an option, and won’t help you with a sore throat any more than sucking on a sweet will, and you aren’t likely to be buying honey anyway.

From TFA, if you aren’t buying local then you aren’t buying honey anyway.

Might as well buy a sweet to suck on.

Ignore them. Its just a 14 yr old Trump supporter.

The LibDems tried to change the voting system, and got absolutely slaughtered for it.

Brexit and all the bullshit was just a repeat of the AV referendum with lessons learnt about how to trigger the Tories.

I think the main difference is that Johnson has always had aspirations of being bigger and greater. He will destroy anything if it means the chance to grab more power.

Farage is more like Sinn Fein, just a complete blocker to any progress for anyone else.

A private company getting private investment? I would expect that there are plenty of string attached to improve, otherwise it’ll be nationalised and the investors will lose their money.

If not, then it’s just a slight delay for 6 months until they run out of cash again.

I know plently of straight people who haven’t been in a proper long term relationship for 15 years.

Dating fucking sucks these days.

What’s that got to do with being gay?

I don’t understand how anyone can support Farage

Mr Farage’s trip was paid for by Christopher Harborne, a British tech investor based in Thailand.

It’s a guy who wants to interfere with international politics. He probably doesn’t believe in Farages politics, but he doesn’t live here so he doesn’t care. He just knows that Farage would give him a sweet deal, or the Tories would to try and gain his vote. £30k is the cost of making another million.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Harborne

In November 2022, Harborne donated £1 million to The Office of Boris Johnson Ltd, one of the biggest donations ever made to an individual British politician.[

He’s scum.

I had this issue with Reddit. You need a lot of houses, making some available doesn’t fix the issue with the vast majority.

And thats fine. I’m just letting you know how I feel about this.

Banning short term rentals is one thing, but can we please at least request that hotels fill the gap that this creates?

I wouldn’t visit.

I have two children, and the number of hotels where I can get joining rooms so I dont have to actually share with them is basically zero.

We can, but very few people own a second, let along a third or fourth.

Either they are landlords and running it through a business, and how do you prevent a business from owning two locations?

Sorry Londis, you can only have one store because you have a flat upstairs?

Or they own them privately, and in this country its massively overstated. Presumably to try and start a bit of class warfare, but folks see US news and think it applies here.

Fucking Tories, making the crabs pull everyone back into the bucket when there really aren’t that many. Even Shelter doesn’t call it out as a problem, compared to the many other things we could do to help.

We’re only short by about a million. That’ll fix the problem!

So these could be houses that people don’t actually want to live in? Maybe because work isn’t there, or the cost of repair too high?

I remember some of those houses, as I was in Wavertree near the Botanic Gardens, Matalan and the burnt down pubs around 2000 and you couldn’t give away some homes just a bit further down Picton.

Yeah, not sure what’s going on but I had to open the archive link in a browser and do a hard refresh.

Horse chestnut.

“Allegations of foul play have been received that somehow King Conker swapped his real conker for the metal one later found in his pocket.

…

There are also suggestions that King Conker had marked the strings of harder nuts. We can confirm he was involved in drilling and lacing the nuts before the event.

The metal conker is suspicious, however to them start going around and making other random claims makes you sound like a sore loser.

Its only Americans that I see being puritanical as a general rule. There are Christian sects in the UK who are against drinking, but its not the majority.

Jesus handed out wine at parties, and ordered his followers to drink wine.

Pretty sure its only because he didn’t have access a good bitter.