What happened on 13th July 2023 - With your comments in the Web

 On Thursday, a transgender activist and convicted attempted murderer told a police officer 'trans rights are human rights' as she is handcuffed and arrested after telling a cheering crowd at a Trans Pride rally to 'punch TERFs in the face'.

Sarah Jane Baker, whose spent 30 years in jail for kidnap and then the attempted murder of a fellow prisoner, provoked outrage over her inflammatory comments on Saturday against feminists who are critical of trans ideology. 

She told fellow activists: 'I was gonna come here and be really fluffy and be really nice and say yeah be really lovely and queer and gay... Nah, if you see a TERF, punch them in the f****** face.' 

 

That was a rear time when Redditors approved the police action.

"Wow, not often that the police arrest a far left type for incitement to violence / hate speech!

But seems like the correct decision given, for example, it would be pretty henious to say "punch trans people in the face". Or hell just "punch x group of people in the face". It does have the potential to incite a nutjob to actually do it."

 "It’s that “it’s always ok to punch a nazi” mindset

Which is great when you get to decide who is and isn’t a nazi, without trial or discussion.

Edit : the amount of replies in getting (your all hidden by the way) of people saying it is ok to punch a nazi is staggering. You’ve missed the point"

"Good, she is a fucking idiot who does more damage to trans people than help. A great example of those who shout loudest get heard."

Also on Thursday, Brits were happy to know that millions of UK public sector workers, including teachers and doctors, will get pay rises of about 6% after Rishi Sunak decided to accept the recommendations of independent pay review bodies.

The bodies had suggested pay rises of between 6% and 6.5% for 2023-24, at a potential cost of £5bn.

Mr Sunak met Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, to thrash out the decision this morning, which involves around 45% of the public sector, but does not include the majority of civil servants.

The pay increases each public sector will receive are as follows:

• Police - 7%
• NHS - 6%
• Junior doctors - 6% + £1,250 one-off payment
• Prison officers - 7%
• Armed Forces - 5% + £1,000 one-off payment
• Teachers - 6.5%

The Treasury has stressed the pay rises will be funded through existing departmental budgets, prompting fears from unions of fewer resources for those working in the public sector and potential cuts to services.

 Yet, British Redditors considered those measures unsufficient.

"Millions of workers given real terms pay cut for 13th year in a row.

FTFY"

"So they can blame the "greedy" workers when these public services decline further and make denying pay rises easier in the future."

"My buddy is a school teacher. This has been the way for some time. It’s lauded as a government sanctioned pay rise (which isn’t enough anyway)…but it comes from existing school budgets… meaning our schools are increasingly underfunded… because those teachers are entitled to a pay rise… but investment into education resources is ultimately less. It’s insane."

"Only way to stop this would be for the government to stop greedy fuck companies profiteering. Supermarkets and energy companies profits up insane amounts? Force them to reduce them back down.

Sadly that'll never happen."

That day either, the High Court has ruled that employers can no longer use agency staff to cover striking workers during walkouts.

The judgement, which follows a judicial review brought by 13 unions, overturns controversial government legislation introduced last year. The TUC, which co-ordinated the action, called the ruling a "major blow" to "ministers' attempts to undermine the right to strike". The government said it was disappointed and considering its next steps.

"The ability to strike is important, but we maintain there needs to be a reasonable balance between this and the rights of businesses and the public," a spokesperson for the Department for Business and Trade said.

The change to regulations, which became law in January, was a response to the wave of strikes over pay and conditions that hit the UK last year.

 The negative reaction in the Web was expectative.

"Seems like unlawful is the word of the times. Seems as if one can be unlawful and not a thing can be done about it."

 

"Rule of thumb: if he looks like a tory twat, he generally is a tory twat.Good riddance to bad rubbish.."

 

"Judge rules 'unlawful and irrational' an idea brought to us by Kami-Kwasi.... that guy is less correct than a broken clock"

 

On Thursday as well, it turned out that the River Wye has been ‘dying’ after farmers lobbied government to water down protections.

 

ne of Britain’s most well-loved rivers has been pushed towards “complete ecological collapse” after farming unions successfully lobbied the government to water down key environmental legislation, openDemocracy can reveal.

Natural England recently downgraded the status of the River Wye, a designated Special Area of Conservation due to a decline of key species.

The decline is partly due to large quantities of manure being washed into the river from neighbouring farmland – with campaigners warning that environmental laws to limit the waste are not being enforced.

Internal Environment Agency documents seen by openDemocracy show that a loophole – introduced after lobbying by the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) – means farmers in breach of the rules will “not usually” face any action, with some not even being informed of their rule-breaking.

 

 The conclusion on this sad issue is quite unambiguos:

 

"The government always seems ready to give into the people who don't want the planet preserved... so they aren't really conserving things! Conservatives is a rather misleading name then."