Kaufmann doesn't believe in enforcing strictures on the creative industries but emphasises that “we need to get away from our obsession with Austen, Dickens and white period narratives to allow new talent to write fresh stories set in the past, putting these fascinating historical characters of colour centre stage”.

These people are scum and we will have our debt paid, with interest

"Race" is real but it's way too nebulous to build an identity around.

Every time some "white" person wants me to bond with him and his cause I am uninterested. People bond over ethnicity, religion, not someth ing so broad as whether you are "Black" or "Asian" or "White."

Race and ethnicity used to be synonymous, white peoples in general have more in common than disparate groups. But for sure, identity should be based on the ethnos of a people

http://joannenova.com.au/2020/01/abc-deleting-facebook-posts-on-how-protesters-stop-prescribed-burns-more-worried-about-climate-change-than-wildfires/

https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1219649504502276097

https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1219736896349200384

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/boris-johnson-lifts-30k-wage-barrier-on-immigrants-ghzvkx68r

The salary threshold was retarded

Clearly wasn't going to be viable in the long term - all they'd end up doing is making a giant lists of exceptions to it

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-vote-refugees-dubs-amendment-house-lords-peers-child-migrants-a9294961.html

they are really cashing in on these headlines <:smugon:512048583806025739>

take what you can get i guess

Oh nooo the Lords have voted for something that’ll be repealed in an instant. I’m sure the headlines will be just as big saying “never mind, the Lords didn’t actually do anything”.

I do love the way the Lords are just begging Johnson to reform them at the height of his power when he can make a second chamber that actually has powers and will favour the Conservatives.

> The prime minister has vowed to overturn all Lords amendments as the Withdrawal Agreement Bill completes its passage through parliament on Wednesday.

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I mean the article should start and end there.

The Lords don't seem to yet have the message that this isn't the Parliament of three years past.

Perhaps someone would explain to me why theyre trying to put these safeguards in an EU withdrawal bill

I'm not British so enlighten me. At this point, can Boris just do whatever he wants and ignore the house of lords?

Yes but no, Kaiser

they know it will get overturned... theyre just trying to cause delays

To be fair, the ammendment that guarantees EU citizens a document proving their status is sensible

Don't know why they'd want to undermine that

Especially given the problems the last time with Windrush

sounds reasonable

I doubt a document will be all that helpful... theyll just say its a fake if they really wanted to deport someone

and Im sure also... a lot of fakes will appear too... NGOs will start handy them out like sweets

@Kaiser (ICFD) House of lords is basically limp dicked. It has no power to keep things in and the commons can eventually ignore it entirely if it gets annoyed with it.

they'll probably start leafleting them across libya 😛

The amendments are designed to sound reasonable until you realise they back the government into a corner and don't allow it to actually make up a policy in reaction to the needs of the situation.

Boris might want a document in the end but why the fuck should the form or creation of such a document be dictated by a bunch of losers who can't accept the result.

they will just keep adding "amendments" until it comes to february and ... "oh no's, we're still dealing with the bill, ...guess you gotta ask for an extension huh?"

indeed, and we all know that if they could control that, they'd try to find some way to undermine it

@wacka inb4 Boris just goes "no lol"

@Kaiser (ICFD) excatly. It's always the way they do these things.

@wacka I'm 90% sure that's exactly what they are doing

"lords cause no deal brexit" ... will be the headline that will never appear in any headlines... but will be the truth everyone knows

Tbh I'm all for the House of Lords forcing a no deal Brexit on us.