• Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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    The judge said that the council’s consultation process was lawful, though said some elements “could undoubtedly have been improved upon”. However, he said that the way the council considered input from engagement with the public was unlawful.

    Maybe a summery would have been inorder since the title is quite an exaggeration.

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      WDAG had delivered a “detailed” 53-page presentation outlining its concerns about the scheme to a councillor, but Judge Smith said it was not clear whether it was then shared with officers making decisions over the scheme.

      He said: “On the evidence, I am forced to conclude that, despite assurances to the contrary given to the claimant, the 53-page presentation did not form part of the council’s considerations in its decision to make the orders.

      “It should have done. Its content was highly relevant to the issues being deliberated upon and thus it was a material consideration.

      “The failure to have regard to it was a serious failing, rendering the decision to make the orders unlawful.”

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      Anything on social media or news gets shared here. Most of our media is biased and owned by the ruling / capitalist class. This is not new at all (see: Brexit and Nigel Farage).

      However, in reality there are multiple LTNs across cities in the country, especially in London. They are generally well accepted by local people but they aren’t very vocal about it. I think most of the cities have charges to drive in for higher emission cars. They’re here to stay but doesn’t make a good headline that they continue on.

      Even in my heavily pro-car, suburban area, roads are finally being dropped to 20mph and they’re introducing school roads / other restrictions. There’s long term plans to reduce roads and introduce more cycle lanes (several years behind London Boroughs but going in the right direction…)

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      We probably have the most native English-speaking morons than the rest of the world combined. I’d like to think we just gave the world cool movies and blues/soul records but we gave the world a bunch of dumbasses too. It hits England first.

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        I guess it hits Canada first and England second. And include rap in our contributions to world culture. And jeans and microprocessors and other unimportant shit.

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        To be fair, the US only turned out the way it did, because of a bunch of imperialistic European countries (or governments).

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          The US has been an independent nation for almost 250 years. At some point they have to start taking responsibility for their own actions

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            Great point. They definitely should take responsibility. I just want to keep the history of imperialism in mind. I don’t want to excuse the US at all.

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    Looks like communities on the streets that got closed off are just asking to be involved in that sort of decision.