It’s also really hard for children to buy booze. Having it legal and regulated stops kids getting it and stops the illegal activities surrounding it AND brings in tax revenue.
With illegal drings you end up with children and vulnerable people falling victim of county lines and cuckooing.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/19/cuckooing-devastating-crime-hiding-plain-sight-22926126/
https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-threats/drug-trafficking/county-lines
Does it? Or does it just make hard drugs more dangerous and drive up multiple related crimes (burglary, shop lifting, mugging, cocoing, county lines etc) and stigmatise people with addiction issues stopping them from being able to seek help?
Is “ghosts” really the most sensitive word for someone who’s been on deaths door for a while now?
Edit - er. Well. Just seen today’s news.
The problem is he’s a symptom of broader socialtal issues. Someone else will just rise to fill his place unless we work to address what caused him prominence.
Don’t travel to the US.
Fuck sake, I thought we’d left this argument back in 99.
In 4 years the people that elected him will still be there. I’d had very little desire to visit America in the past because of the guns and crazies. This has put a firm nail in that coffin
But does that outweigh the amount of days lost from people taking sick days?
Oh sorry America. The civilised world would be making that calculation though.
I feel that bird flu is worse in the UK than the media are generally reporting. I work for one of the majority supermarkets and were running at about 75% fulfilment from our suppliers for eggs.
I agree. He’s going to hit us with tarrifs anyway, so we might as well.
The digital sales tax as it is brings in next to nothing and is set at just 2%. Do what the lib Dems have suggested and triple it. Then in my opinion when we do get hit by tarrifs triple it again from 6% to 18% as part of our retaliation package.
I hope countries start putting big export tarrifs on eggs to “protect domestic support” 400% should be a starting point.
Hopefully it’ll hit the point where retirement funds divest. Once that happens Tesla will go into proper free fall.
Hell, hopefully retirement funds (maybe not yanks ones but at least those from other countries) will start to divest out of American markets entirely as they become more volatile as your flip flop president changes his addled mind every half an hour.
Kinda happy to have a government that has policies that can be controversial. The previous lot has so run out of steam that their response to the cost of living crisis was go to the Winchester and wait for it to all blow over
How were these women able to give any kind of informed consent?
So when are they going to be tried for these rapes?
Won’t protect him from something nasty slipped into his ket.
Yeah. This isn’t the only time that marbles never have been used against police horses in the UK. I’m not sure if it was one of the first though.
Can’t really blame people with events like the Peterloo Massacre in our history.
Fuck.