Oghier
7191
Is “if it actually helps people” the guiding principle for the current government’s policymaking in the UK? It sure isn’t here in the US. We’re more about guiding tax dollars into the pockets of the wealthy.
Snowfox
7192
Is this transfer of personal data to random companies even allowed with current personal data regulations?
jpinard
7193
If Tories mandate it in the future, then no. Right now? No idea.
Inside the EU - no way. I’m pretty sure that this would have be hard even under old EU legislation, but under GDPR, I’m pretty sure you’d be hard pressed to do anything like that. The hoops you’d have to jump through to make that legal… woof (that’s my professional opinion, based on working with sharing data even within government institutions).
Once the UK is out of the EU/EEA, of course, it can legislate however it wants. Depending on when the UK’s native legislation is from, it might not even have robust privacy protection laws in place to begin with.
Much like Trump’s government, when you put a lying, racist toerag into power it completely nullifys your ability to criticise others. No longer do our nations act as moral leadership.
Tim_N
7196
The latest ICM poll just drives home how undemocratic FPTP is:
Con: 42% (+1)
Lab: 35% (+1)
Lib Dem: 13% (-)
Brexit Party: 3% (-1)
Green: 2% (-1)
SNP: 3% (-)
Plaid: 0% (-1)
UKIP: 0% (-)
Another party / ind. candidate: 1% (-)
53%-54% of voting intention are going to parties that would never in their wildest dreams consider supporting a government of Boris, and yet the conservatives will probably win a large majority of seats. The only chance Labor has is for LibDems voters to be able to vote as strategically as the blockhead Brexit Party base have been.
And yet the British public seem happy with it - as the LibDems found out to their cost when they spent a great deal of political capital to have a referendum on the matter.
The idiocracy don’t understand FPTP, AV, PR or anything. They voted for “change is bad”. If something other than FPTP imposed they are fine with it (London Mayor)
The LD campaign has been utterly hopeless so far. They had a chance to seize the day and they failed. Talk of Swinson resigning before the election.
We both know that’s hyperbole. But yes, it’s gone pretty badly. Her messaging and delivery have been poor. It sucks.
I’ve not been following the news, what has Swinson done wrong?
The revoke strategy was probably a mistake (even though that’s what I personally want).
Up until Swinson and their Remain plan the LibDems were moribund, uninspiring, insipid, and listless. They peaked getting the election up and running and are back to being moribund, uninspiring, insipid, and listless. I know they are getting a vote by default to the other choices being worse but the entire campaign can be summed up as “bleh”.
Remain and weed? I should be alot more animated than that.
Clegg keeps popping up and defending Facebook and reminding everyone what an utter shifty fucker he is too.
Yes - it’s actually kind of amazing how bad they’ve been at this, coming off their latest disastrous period and given the unique opportunity of this election.
From what I’m reading, people are talking primarily about three things:
- Swinson herself is apparently not that well liked. Part of that seems to be because she was a minister in the Clegg government, but refuses to take any responsibility for the unpopular actions of that time (meaning she seems dishonest). In an election where both major candidates are so unpopular, that is a lost opportunity.
- The Lib Dem’s policy to straight up revoke Art 50 isn’t particularly popular, even with Remain voters (a second referendum is more popular). It makes the LibDems look more radical, when their natural appeal is to moderates/centrists.
- Any hope for Remain requires them to work out a coalition with Labour. But the Lib Dems have spent much of their time attacking Labour aggressively which muddies the political waters badly.
Looks like the Tory manifesto is fascist in the truest sense of the word. It even states they will ignore courts and rule of law. This absolutely mirrors the NSDAP rise to power.
Get those darknet archives on a burner phone, wrap a USB stick in coffee grounds and in an airtight box and bury it off your property because we’ll need them.
John Major ain’t fucking about here
New Statesman doesn’t endorse any party. This is a surprise, their political editor Stephen Bush is very much on side with Corbyn’s Labour and is Staggers has been a Labour publication for ever but there are some glaring issues that cannot be ignored.
Tim_N
7208
The best outcome is really a minority government, but for that to happen the New Statesman would need to have endorsed Labour to move the needle slightly towards them (in the hypothetical world where endorsements matter at all).
Aceris
7209
Say the tories do win, and win big, do people think there’s a chance of the Labour party regaining sanity and decency as a result?
Alternatively, what do the libdems have to do to succeed? It’s hard to see how they could ever have a better chance than this.
I actually think the tory victory timeline is less bad than the Labour minority government one. Because in the latter case we get several years of incompetent socialism, our entire intelligence service sold out to the Russians and Iranians, followed by brexit at the end of it after the tories win a huge majority under the leadership of Michael Fabricant or someone equally odious. Maybe I’m just overly pessimistic today.
A LD and Lab coalition, as equals. The LDs to temper the nonsense from out on the fringe and to ensure the Ref is delivered.
I still can’t see STWC (aka Corbyn’s entire leadership team and advisory) being let into the MOD, Foreign Office, MI6/5/GCHQ though. Hardcore CPGB cadre and Putinists like Murray are openly traitorous and fought the UK all their lives, and there are Islamists/Jihadists up near the top. Im just assuming there are going to be a series of medical issues and accidents if they win.
