The Absolute State Of It - It's The UK Politics Thread!
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I think they just have absolutely zero self awareness. A good quality to have in general if you're going to become a right leaning political figure.
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You and all the rest of us mate. I'm 61 and thought I'd seen it all but every week someone lowers the bar even further and limbos under it.arqueturus wrote: βMon Sep 08, 2025 11:03 amHonestly, I feel like I'm the one in a coke addled fever dream right now.
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I'm 52 and grew up through the Thatcher years. It astounds me that I can look back at those and think "at least she was competent, if awful"Hatredsheart wrote: βMon Sep 08, 2025 12:46 pmYou and all the rest of us mate. I'm 61 and thought I'd seen it all but every week someone lowers the bar even further and limbos under it.arqueturus wrote: βMon Sep 08, 2025 11:03 amHonestly, I feel like I'm the one in a coke addled fever dream right now.
Perhaps she would have been every bit as bad or even worse if the media spotlight was as as continuous and stark as it is these days but I'm not truly convinced.
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She absolutely nails this, though.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1tKA7_pWAYU
Nails right down the blackboard.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1tKA7_pWAYU
Nails right down the blackboard.
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This digital ID stuff is giving me data security/privacy shudders again. I can't see how it's effectively going to stop illegal immigrants from working when cash-in-hand (and modern slavery) is still a thing, which means all it's going to do is open the entire country up to identity theft. The whole thing smells of Starmer trying to appease the Reform crowd by appearing to crack down on immigrants, at the expense of everyone else.
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I used to be vaguely in favour of a general government ID but after seeing the technologically illiterate approach the government have taken towards the OSA and then how they've doubled down on calling any critics of it paedophile supporters, I just don't trust them in the slightest bit to execute this properly or for it to not over reach.
Starmer is an absolute authoritarian windbag. How long until they decide that you need to link your government ID card to all the services you use online to prove your age? The government will be able to track everything about you then.
Starmer is an absolute authoritarian windbag. How long until they decide that you need to link your government ID card to all the services you use online to prove your age? The government will be able to track everything about you then.
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I haven't read into this digital ID thing yet, but given they're directing blame at immigration which I can't see it affecting at all (do we seriously think not having ID is going to be a deterrent to illegal immigration?), I assume it's nothing to do with it whatsoever and is all about control - exactly the same as the online safety act.
I'm not one of those people that think this government is doing nothing right; their wins are going under the radar and their mistakes are getting blown up because the press are gunning for them, but they're utterly appalling when it comes to civil liberties.
I'm not one of those people that think this government is doing nothing right; their wins are going under the radar and their mistakes are getting blown up because the press are gunning for them, but they're utterly appalling when it comes to civil liberties.
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It's not even the civil liberties that concern me most with digital IDs, it's that the government (and all previous ones as far as I can tell) clearly couldn't give a flying crap about data security beyond what they're legally obliged to adhere to (and often fail to). If everyone is forced to have a new digital ID and, as Dave suggests, it ends up being a requirement for accessing services, what happens when there's inevitably a security breach? What happens when there's a technical failure and you need your ID to urgently get into something like your bank account?
I mean, what does it actually achieve that an NI number currently doesn't? It's just another dataset waiting to be exploited by both official bodies and malicious actors.
I mean, what does it actually achieve that an NI number currently doesn't? It's just another dataset waiting to be exploited by both official bodies and malicious actors.
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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*sigh*
Imgur have decided not to bother complying with the UK's ridiculous anti-porn law and just geoblocked the entire country, as is their right. Suddenly the only decent image hosting for the last 15 years doesn't work, and I can't use a VPN on my work machine (we don't use it for anything work-related, but it was handy for quickly hosting stuff when Teams is throwing a wobbly and hosts every meme gif ever made that isn't on the Teams gif database).
UK Government, I'd like to address you directly. Children know how to Google "free vpn", they're not stupid.
Imgur have decided not to bother complying with the UK's ridiculous anti-porn law and just geoblocked the entire country, as is their right. Suddenly the only decent image hosting for the last 15 years doesn't work, and I can't use a VPN on my work machine (we don't use it for anything work-related, but it was handy for quickly hosting stuff when Teams is throwing a wobbly and hosts every meme gif ever made that isn't on the Teams gif database).
UK Government, I'd like to address you directly. Children know how to Google "free vpn", they're not stupid.
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Imgur havenβt even bothered putting up a placeholder page explaining that itβs blocked, or why. All you get is:
A proper table-flip moment from them. Canβt blame them.{"data":{"error":"Content not available in your region."},"success":false,"status":400}