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I think that I have seen one.
Legislation around face coverings tends to make exemptions for places of worship anyway, such as in France, where it is explicitly exempted, or Denmark where it is implicit by the definition of a public place.
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In local councils? Find a party which wants genuine change and campaign for them. Or stand for election.
Not be inept, yes, but boring is what politicians should be, if it means getting things done. We've seen what happens on both sides of the pond when "reality TV stars" are elected to office.
I agree politicians should be boring, or at least, not merely eccentric wombles. But I think part of the reason Farage, Trump, Blair, Johnson, etc do so well is because they actually have a personality.
See in current politics, I think some of the culture wars stuff is essential. It's not good for politics or society, but it wins votes. But the trick is to 'cool' it. Or as this study from KCL puts it more articulately than me:
Well yes, this is traditionally what one would vote Labour for.
None of it will pass until establishments of leaders, lords, MPs, supreme court judges and civil servants start listening to voters. The British establishment with the Horizon scandal and grooming scandal has a habit of covering everything up to avoid blame, promote agendas, and it's rotten to the core.
The Biggest Peacetime Crime—and Cover-up—in British History
The serial rape of thousands of English girls went on for many years. Few in power cared. Then Elon Musk started tweeting.www.thefp.com
One night in Oldham in 2006, for example, a 12-year-old girl named “Sophie” entered a police station and reported that she had just been molested in a graveyard by a man named “Ali.” A desk officer told her to come back with an adult when she was sober. Two men accosted her in the police station. Joined by a third, they raped her in their car. When they dumped her on the street, she asked a man named Sarwar Ali for directions. He took her to his home, raped her, and gave her money for bus fare home. A man named Shakil Chowdhury pulled up in his car and offered to take her home. He abducted her and took her to a house where he and four other men repeatedly raped her.
Several girls were murdered. In Manchester in 2003, Victoria Agoglia was repeatedly drugged and raped before being given a fatal dose of heroin at the age of 15. In Blackpool that same year, 14-year-old Charlene Downes disappeared—her body was never found.
In Telford, Azhar Ali Mehmood groomed Lucy Lowe from the age of 12 and impregnated her at 14. He burned her alive in her own home with her mother, her disabled sister, and her unborn second child, also fathered by Mehmood. Mehmood was jailed for life in 2001 for murder—not sex crimes.
The government started in 2023 to tackle this, and this is highlisted in the gov uk article, but it's putting a bandage on a gaping wound.
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Now come and tell me a dishwater dull moderate with no will to change things will govern in the interests and wishes of the people. It's disdainful I-know-better mentalities in government that lead to widespread discontent, people with genuine greviences being called fascists and racists.
Westminster must fall
We don't have to wait for Westminster and Whitehall. They won't like it, but they're too broken to be able to stop uswww.spectator.co.uk
The country needs radical change. Britain’s preference for boring managers is its undoing.
Probably a change to the voting system entirely, an elected upper chamber, removal of political patronage, overhaul of the honours system, total dismantling of the Establishment. Britain is very unwell and the ability to fail upwards in politics, business and the civil service is completely undermining civil society. There is little accountability for gross failures, and the state often rows in behind its representatives because it is fearful of wholesale change which might result from scandal.
Have you looked at immigration since the late 2010s? Do you think that might have contributed to the issue in the last five years? There’s a lot of *visible* immigration, which is the crux of the issue.
That’s a very selective view of libertarianism. I assume you don’t subscribe to the libertarian view that businesses should have free hand to serve or not serve whoever they like, for example. I mean it’s not even libertarian to put conditions on where one can work or live. Why is it only if you have useful skills?
We should let immigrants in because if we don’t they’ll be cross?
Probably the only way to achieve that, as well as land ownership reform. The entire foundation of Britain needs to change. People are very afraid of it.
True, but good luck getting a critical mass of the public to a) back whatever specific radical change is necessary and b) give the right people/party the time and space needed to implement it.
What does "become British" in fact mean though? Learn English? All immigrants I've met have enough English to live effectively here, certainly.
Or if you are a refugee, of course. To be honest my gut "from the heart" reaction would be a complete free-for-all on immigration but I do recognise "from the head" that this would be impractical. Hence my "useful skills" qualifier. I'm trying to argue against blocking people with useful skills - let's say in healthcare, science, engineering or technology - working here just because they are foreigners - this is a considerably more libertarian position than either Labour or the Conservatives adopt, for example.
The best book Ive ever read on migration; highly recommended if you want an impartial, fact based look at what seems to have become the defining political subjest of this decade:
Neither of those roles are elected posts. They are operational specialists. Appeal court judges (the supreme court is an appeal court) are there to apply their expertise to resolving technical questions of law.
I think you have misunderstood what populism is.
