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andrewducker) wrote2023-11-07 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2023-11-07 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 07-11-2023
- 1. Happy Mastoversary!
- (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
- 2. Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers
- (tags:renewables windpower solarpower uk )
- 3. Dengue rates plunged by up to 97% after release of lab-altered mosquitoes
- (tags:disease mosquito GoodNews )
- 4. It's nice to know that I'm not the only person who looks up the plots of movies too scary for me to watch on Wikipedia
- (tags:Wikipedia horror movies video funny )
- 5. File this under "Headlines that should be satire but somehow aren't."
- (tags:headline Israel Palestine wtf OhForFucksSake health weight )
- 6. The UK planning system is a disaster
- (tags:UK planning building infrastructure OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Not content with scamming people out of large amounts of money for bad monkey art, NFC companies are now trying to blind them
- (tags:eyesight light OhForFucksSake EpicStupidity blockchain )
- 8. EU equality laws to be reinstated by the UK to avoid 'gap in protections' for workers
- (tags:UK Europe equality law )
- 9. Scottish ministers refuse to comply with UK government strike plan
- (tags:uk scotland unions strike )
- 10. Is 'Long Covid' similar to 'Long SARS'? (If so it can persist permanently)
- (tags:pandemic disease )
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Damaging, but effective in the sense that some of the damage is advantageous to a particular Conservative agenda: bear that in mind when you hear warnings and criticisms of 'failures' that malicious actors celebrate as successes!
Meanwhile, the capped penalties for unions have a backdoor:
The maximum damages that courts can award against a union for unlawful strike action is £1m.
It wasn't fines that curtailed (but did not halt!) the activities of the National Union of Miners in the strikes of the early 1980's.
Their repeated failure to comply with the court orders led to a separate set of penalties for contempt of court, *which were and are unlimited*, backed up with asset seizures.
In theory, union officials can be imprisoned for contempt: thankfully, even the Thatcher regime stepped back from such a political disaster.
The current Westminster cabinet would delight in taking such a conflict to these extremes, and escalate it as far as their media will tolerate. Or encourage.
What would the state of politics and civic life be like, in the aftermath of the inevitable national strikes and civil disorder that would follow such folly?
Someone, somewhere in Westminster, wants that. Thankfully, Holyrood doesn't.
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