Quelle surprise - another Labour hypocrite.
Starmer will do nothing again. He won’t suspend her, or remove her from post. Just like he did nothing about Peter Kyle calling politicians and most of the people in the UK paedophiles last week. #Labour
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Remember, the Government who was entertaining the Worlds Most Famous Living Paedo last week is telling us we're all child predators.....
#OnlineSafetyAct#PeterKyle#Labour#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS#Trump#Epstein
Remember, UK Technology Minister Peter Kyle thinks we're all 'peados'
This is the state of British politics right now, the state of UKGOV
@mrundkvist @dangillmor Did you notice the New Labour (rw) faction deliberately losing the 2019 election then purging the party of Corbynites—overwhelmingly young and enthusiastic leftists—to leave a rump of lobbyist fodder and apparatchiks (who'd found a home under Blair and hated the left with a passion)?
Corbyn saw a post-1945 high tide in party membership: it's fallen by 75% since then. And his new party with Sultana has exceeded that mass membership.
@cstross @dangillmor
So Starmer then actually does a fair job of representing the few party members he still has.
I left Swedish #Labour for the Former Commies two years ago. Because the party is trying to get under-educated male voters in small towns back from the Fascists by means of brownish communication.
@mrundkvist @dangillmor Nope, Starmer has ALWAYS been a petty authoritarian shit and a paternalist. Started as a campaigning human rights lawyer but by 2011 he was the Director of Public Prosecutions who ruthlessly threw the book at protestors accused of looting that summer. He trims his sails to suit the prevailing wind, is all.
His current government had a landslide-scale majority—but it was a landslide against the Tories, not for Labour's Tory Lite. Which is why Reform are now polling high.
@cstross @dangillmor
Thank you. This makes me wonder what it is about the #Labour party's *membership* that made Starmer their elected leader.
@mrundkvist @dangillmor Maybe, but they don't need guidance from tossers like Starmer who think the way to defeat the right is to outflank them *on* the right.
@cstross @dangillmor
I can't tell whether Starmer is lame-ducking #labour policies because of a weak parliamentary position.
@dangillmor Labour has *always* had a paternalist, authoritarian streak—since at least the 1920s, if not earlier. Ostensibly a party of the working class, but led by middle class bien-pensant managers who assume it's their job to provide moral guidance to the under-educated. Meddlesome by inclination. And Starmer is basically a Tory in Labour drag.
@cstross @dangillmor
Judging from who votes for Fascists these days, it seems that the under-educated actually do need guidance.
HEATHER BURNS ON THE OSA
“The text of the law literally says you are a child until you can prove otherwise,” she explained. “Your site is riddled with [dangerous content] until you can prove otherwise.
“I think any resolution has to start with flipping that on its head … The presumption of guilt before innocence, and the presumption of active complicity in the worst horrors of mankind, needs to go.”
The UK Online Safety Act has hit the fan 💩
It's clear to see in the overreaching censorship across platforms due to age-gated content.
Plus the privacy risks being stored up with an unregulated age verification industry.
Tell your MP it's gone too far ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #privacy #freedomofexpression#OSA #ukpol #ukpolitics #censorship #agegate #ageverification #ageassurance
@openrightsgroup I've sent an email to my MP, and added;
"I will also add, calling critics of this law "JIMMY SAVILE" is the most politically inept and childish thing I've seen in British Politics recently. Are we returning to the Playground?
I mean, I hate Nigel Farage but your boy Peter Kyle really handed him a win, didn't he?"
#Labour #OnlineSafetyAct#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS#NigelFarage#Farage#PeterKyle #JimmySavile#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS
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The #OnlineSafetyAct has well and truly kicked off in the UK.
Just a few minutes after the Online Safety Act went into effect, there was a surge in #vpn downloads.
Today, the governing #Labour Party is reportedly exploring banning VPNs 🤦🏻♂️
Here are the countries that currently the use of VPNs are either fully or partially restricted:
Starmer vs Starmer: a lot of opinions, so I might as well add mine.
The explanation is that Starmer is only interested in power - Human Rights were a ‘trendy’ subject as his career progressed and he is clearly an able lawyer. So he got on the bandwagon. But as we see with human rights, policing, privacy and much more, his real instincts and comfort zone lie with authoritarianism. Simple maybe, but close to the truth.
The #OnlineSafetyAct has well and truly kicked off in the UK.
Just a few minutes after the Online Safety Act went into effect, there was a surge in #vpn downloads.
Today, the governing #Labour Party is reportedly exploring banning VPNs 🤦🏻♂️
Here are the countries that currently the use of VPNs are either fully or partially restricted:
In less than a day over 200,000 people signed up for Jeremy Corbyn's and Zarah Sultana's new political party. This may once and for all be the Labor killer.
Said it before…but #Starmer’s support for #Israel while allowing #genocide to be perpetrated in #Gaza and crushing non-violent dissent at home is the equivalent of #Blair’s Iraq War. But it will be far worse this time for #Labour.
My generation protested in their thousands on the streets of London against Blair…but that was back when non-violent protest was never considered a crime, let alone terrorism.
My generation didn’t vote Labour again for a very long time…many still don’t.
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Oh my goodness we are so dangerous! 🙄
#antifascism #antifa #activism #anarchism #protest #activistmemes #healthcare #workersrights #labour #housing #environment #climate #climatechangeisreal #climatechange
Oh my goodness we are so dangerous! 🙄
#antifascism #antifa #activism #anarchism #protest #activistmemes #healthcare #workersrights #labour #housing #environment #climate #climatechangeisreal #climatechange
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"And when it all results in another misselling scandal, speculative bubble or other, new type of financial catastrophe brought on by this deregulatory bonanza, the cost of collapse won’t be borne by the buyers, they’ll be long gone, moved on to the next purchase. And #Labour’s senior figures will no doubt have their falls softened with golden parachutes, in the form of cushy advisory gigs and lucrative spots on the after-dinner speaker’s circuit.
"And when it all results in another misselling scandal, speculative bubble or other, new type of financial catastrophe brought on by this deregulatory bonanza, the cost of collapse won’t be borne by the buyers, they’ll be long gone, moved on to the next purchase. And #Labour’s senior figures will no doubt have their falls softened with golden parachutes, in the form of cushy advisory gigs and lucrative spots on the after-dinner speaker’s circuit.
…and the people that call themselves ‘civilised’ being so enthralled by the technology that’s generating murder (which when it suits them is classified merely as a “technical mistake”)
that they contract the people who are developing AI kill chains to steward the entire country’s health data…
…But, going further, these same credulous, banal, callous people place “break things” so much at the centre of “move fast and break things”, that they profess their desire to hitch the entire economy to generative “technical mistakes”
backed by data centres that suck the well-being from their environs