I agree, just trying to find some logic in there!

God will save the King, us peasants have to save ourselves.

First time I’ve ever felt like joining the army.

GOD SAVE THE KING

To try and get him to tone down the rhetoric, I guess? Or to reassure his own swing voters?

Oh, that’s okay, then.

Yeah, it’s not exactly a fun walk even now. I normally go through Soho if I’m in the area even if it takes longer.

I read a while back that the average speed of a bus in central London is 3 (three!) miles per hour.

You are right that they can’t compete directly with online shopping, but that’s not why people go there. Studies have consistently shown that closing shopping areas to through-traffic is good for businesses, precisely because it makes them easier, not harder, to access. Shops don’t benefit in any way from hundreds of cars (or, in this case, buses and taxis) driving past them!

EDIT: Thought I should link to a specific study rather than just vaguely waving at them. There are many to choose from but this one is particularly interesting because it’s from the US, where they generally don’t have good cycling and public transport infrastructure, but it still shows benefits for businesses:

While we observed some mixed results, we generally found that street improvements have either positive impacts on corridor economic and business performance or non-significant impacts.

It’s important to note that nothing always works everywhere (‘some mixed results’, here), but the balance of evidence is in favour of at least trialling traffic reduction schemes in commercial districts.

What about this one person I heard about who’s old and also blind and she needs to take her cat to the vet and if she can’t drive at 30mph past a primary school her cat will die? What about her?

Never too late to repent, I suppose. Although this is a bit light on the repentance.

So, you’re saying there was a slight miscarriage of justice which, on appeal, was rectified? I’m sorry there was a problem but, by your own account, it was fixed.

The UK cannot be both Marxist and living under Sharia law; they’re diamatrically opposed. In fact, no where is Sharia law legally imposed, whatever you may have heard.

It is not true that you can’t be ‘proud’ of being ‘English’. There is a St. George’s Day parade in many towns and cities, including London, where it is led by Sadiq Khan, the mayor, who is both proudly Muslim and proudly English. Like most people, he sees no contradiction.

It is not true that talking about Anglo-Saxon culture is considered white supremacy. Schools and universities talk a great deal about figures from Shakespeare to Alan Turing to Millicent Fawcett (I’m picking three examples at random) all of whom were Anglo-Saxon. No one feels the need to point this out, because it would be fucking weird, but like all cultures everywhere, we mostly talk about people from our own culture. The idea this is banned or frowned upon is imaginary.

Yeah, as someone living here, this is nonsense. We put violent rioters in prison. Punishing criminals does not violate freedom; it’s a condition for it.

Is that the one that 'Trump campaign officials acknowledge aligns well’ with Project 2025? Loads of the policies are identical, not just well-aligned. It’s fair game to point up the links between the guy and the document when his ex-staffers wrote the document and his current staffers acknowledge the similarity of the document.

He (or his staff) needs to tell people the actual differences, rather than vague disavowals.

Little bit shocked that Bernie Sanders was responsible for two of the misleading claims. Fully half of the, uh, four headings in the article: a ‘day of lies’, producing four (4) lies? Guess they weren’t working too fast.

The Project 2025 stuff IMO is fair game till Trump explains what he’d do differently. As far as I can see, it’s at least consistent with his plans. If he wants Dems to shut up about it, he should say which parts and which authors he rejects. He can’t just vaguely say, ‘That document that says I should be a dictator? Nothing to do with my plans to be a dictator’ and expect people to go: okay, cool.

Yes, I see the ‘few false or misleading claims’. I’d be happier with no lies, I suppose, but the relevant contrast is not with the fantasy land where everyone lives by radical honesty, but with the Republicans, who lie constantly about almost everything.

when your own turns on you, it’s a pretty clear sign

Out of curiosity, would you agree this also applies to the numerous Republicans, former allies and employees who have turned on Trump?

So funny that he started this insane rightwing pivot to try and win over conservatives to his over-priced electric cars and he’s instead alienated his core market and also conservatives. What a genius.

I’m never going to call it that.

I assume they really have blocked me, but I leave it to the good Lemmings of Lemmy to decide whether the non-sentence, ‘CaptainKickass says they stabbing children is wrong’, really constitutes a condemnation. The truth will out!

And yet you still haven’t actually said it. I think it’s reasonable to ask what it is you have to hide.