As someone who is friends with a handful of cops, plenty of them are ok. The sort of people youd want to help in an emergency. They do have thugs and bullies, not suited to a fair bit of police work, but the police need the numbers, and so assign people like that to units who specialise in crowd control, riot control etc. so it frees up the more level-headed ones to be e.g. 999 responders, desk sergeants, interviewers etc.

“Nobody really likes them, but they do come in handy sometimes” one of my friends said.

Edit: however, this does probably result in the Thug Units basically agreeing with the more moronic protestors, and having a bone to pick with the ‘clever-clever leftie’ ones.

By not having a car you don’t pay road tax, fuel tax, or have to pay for an MOT each year.

I think bureaucracy for small tax exemptions is a good thing, like the rebate you can apply for if you have to wear a uniform.

Yes, definitely. I think it would do wonders for the economy by making jobs more accessible.

BUT there could be a claimable annual tax refund if your sole residence is more than X miles from a train station, or if you can show you’ve not used a train that year. Something like that.

If they raised CGT to be the same rate as Income Tax, that would achieve it.

Most of the corner shops I’ve been to don’t even sell the refills, just the devices.

They need to jack up prices on the latter, and maybe enforce a rule requiring nicotine refills to be sold separately from devices

Maybe rethink that statement

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/11/fxti-m11.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-15140671

Links, please

Couldn’t we, the UK, just like… stop interfering with Russia? Call a truce of some sort? FWIW I admit I’m completely ignorant as to what’s going on, other than we’re supplying arms to Ukraine. Is it all about that?

It is. Poverty breeds ignorance, and with poverty on the rise…