I try to avoid UK politics, but the situation in the UK right now is insane.
- Using the guise of 'child protection' to enforce mandatory KYC across all social apps (they already enforced this for adult sites)
- Mandating client side scanning of user content (i.e. bypasses VPNs, E2E encryption
Setting up all the infrastructure for full-on surveillance. Just takes one rogue government to use this for nefarious means
- Enforced such draconian rules for crypto trading that most firms exited the market entirely. The prohibited list on new deals now generally has North Korea, Russia, Iran and the UK at the top
For the privilege of trading and investing with one hand tied behind your back, tax burden is at a record high (since records began in 1948), capital gains tax recently increased to 24%, and the main Labour challenger Andy Burnham wants to increase this to match income tax, plus a wealth tax
But at least public infra is better as a result, right? Police are still chronically underfunded, to the point where they no longer deal with petty crimes such as shoplifting. You have guys walking into a store, stealing stuff, and walking out, because they know there's no repercussions.
The NHS remains great for the majority tbh, so don't want to bash it too much, but for someone who is willing to pay for private treatment, you still find yourself stuck having to go through the system (and waiting weeks/months as a result)
It doesn't look like there's any improvement on the horizon, and amongst my circle of friends, I've never seen such pessimism for the future. Situation really is grim.
Sadly, I already came to the conclusion that the only option is relocating, and i'll be leaving next month
Apologies for the rant, this will be my last one on the subject
At 17 you can
Have consensual sex
Have a kid
Drive a car
Work a job
Vote
Donate blood
Join the army
BUT you CANNOT watch YouTube after your allocated government bedtime lmao
“What’s my approval rating?”
- It’s bad Mr Prime Minister. It’s -43. It’s…it’s in the mud.
“Could it get lower?”
- I mean anything COULD happen but realistically-
“Kill the ponies.”
- Wha-
“The ponies. The cute little ponies. Kill them.”
- Sir, they’re endangered
“Fuck ‘em. Make the call.”
This all seems to be a ploy to link IP addresses and online activity directly to an identifiable person to make them easier to catch and track down. The government falsely assumed that everyone watches porn and they thought they would get everyone that way. It obviously did not work as well as they were hoping so they are now expanding it. (I have always said that initial laws are just a foot in the door, those laws will always be expanding after the fact into their true original intended purpose).
So their plan now is if you want to use any social media or much of the internet in any way, you will need to prove that you are over 18 which means submitting an ID. This will require far far more ID submissions which will massively expand the government database, which was the real plan all along, not the safety of children.
The funniest thing about this is after all the fuss about the Online Safety Act, this blanket ban on kids using social media pretty much renders the entire act pointless and made it a giant waste of time. Which to be honest, proves that the act was never about protecting children but was really about building a giant database that links all online activity directly to a person.
This database would then be constantly poured over by AI to flag "citizens of concern" to the government who may be potential political dissidents, saying naughty anti-government things etc so the government can pre-emptively act against them.
Minority Report. This is literally the plot of Minority Report.
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A 15 year old British boy has had to undergo plastic surgery after two police officers shove his face on to spiked railings. The police have lost all compassion and professionalism at this point
#BritainFirst#SaveBritain#BritishPatriot
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#EndPoliceBrutality
#JusticeMatters
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Call their bluff.
Close all local UK operations, so that no employees or corporate officers can be arrested.
Refuse to comply, and dare them to geoblock. Without Google and Apple, the UK economy would probably collapse. It isn't so much that those services are crucial (although they are), it's that Britain is already on the fiscal brink and all it would really take is a little push.
I'm sure blocking the Internet would go over really well with the British people, too.
This video will stay with me forever
It defines peak woke, DEI and suicidal empathy
- Migrant starts stabbing people
- Local man restrains migrant
- Police think local man is evil racist
- Police pull local man off migrant
- Migrants murders Police officer
🚨HUGE UPDATE🚨
BULGARIAN MIGRANT WHO ATTACKED TWO GIRLS IN SCOTLAND FOUND GUILTY
Ilia Belov has been found guilty of assaulting a 12 yr old girl and acting in a threatening or abusive manner towards four girls aged 12-14
His sister, Nadjedzha Belova also pleaded guilty to the assault on the 13 Year old girl
My friend just created a website that tracks every single immigration NGO in the west with their funding $ numbers, phone number, names and addresses
https://t.co/0Z8VMrBsOM
"You cannot change the rules so people who had a legal right to be here have to leave"
"Yes you can"
"Well you can but do you want to live in a country that does that?"
"YES"
BASED PATRIOT 🇬🇧
Here’s the problem. The liberal political class wants us to treat atrocities like Belfast as single, random, isolated incidents. “Yes, it’s horrific, but don’t overreact,” they say. “Let the police do their job. Justice will be delivered. Let’s remain united,” and so on.
But the public can see that such incidents *aren’t* random or isolated. They are, in fact, all the consequence of massive state failure in the area of asylum and immigration. All roads lead back there.
That’s why people are angry.. They are sick of the platitudes that get trotted out after each fresh incident. They don’t want to hear them anymore. They know that the decisions of establishment politicians have brought us to this current pass, and they don’t trust those same politicians to fix things, especially when some of them refuse to even recognise that the public’s anger is justified.
There has been a huge vibe shift in recent years. Imagine - God forbid - there were another 7/7. Does anyone think the public response would be anything like as restrained as it was then? We are in really dangerous territory.
The public don’t want flowers and candles and “Don’t let them divide us.” They want someone who says, “I recognise that the state has failed abjectly. We have allowed far too many people to settle in the country without knowing who they truly are. It has disrupted your communities. Your anger is justified. And I will do everything in my power to put things right.”
Any politician unwilling to articulate that message, fully and sincerely, is effectively sanctioning more years of growing social disharmony and discord. Things cannot heal until those in power recognise the extent of the problem and what it will take to fix it. And, on both counts, most of them don’t.
That’s why the next few years are going to be very, very turbulent.