The report this article is based on is actually called “On Thin Ice: Disproportionate Responses to Climate Change Protesters in Democratic Countries”

The title of the article is a bit misleading including the term “rich countries”, especially as that term is not used once in the article.

In my mind measuring the level of democracy is harder than the wealth of a nation.

I could see Starmer’s Labour doing this for sure; they don’t want another Jeremy Corbin again, and are doing their best to rid the party of outspoken ‘leftists’.

What a cool and normal country we have.

I’m proud of Southampton! Only 10 shitheads, and hundreds of anti-racists. Good showing everyone

It’s funny you should say that, because my local council are currently struggling to collect bins. They haven’t collected to bins for the cafe that’s attached to my workplace for about 2 weeks now. It’s getting grim.

From what i understand there’s plenty of dentists, but they are all private. The government doesn’t maintain dentists as part of the NHS, in effect they subcontract the work out to private dentists.

We do get subsidised dentil treatment, but it’s limited in scope, and the way the government has handed out the contracts means there’s not enough spaces to go around.

I live in a city, and it took almost 18 months for me to get accepted as an NHS patient…in the next city over! But I was offered private treatment instantly at dentists surgeries that had “no space”. The system is a fucking joke.

Wow, thank you so much for taking the time to answer. I really do appreciate it.

Going off of what you said, I am going to take what I currently have, scale it back, and attempt to get more separation between services.

Again, thank you!

I dunno, seems pretty seems pretty complex to me. I’m sure the democratically elected bigwigs in charge know a thing or two about running industries properly. There must be some other reason that countries with underdeveloped solar industries are falling behind…if only we could figure it out!