@Xmusknewsx As a UK guy in whose country there's been a lot of noise about this including from loudmouth ignorant politicians, here goes:
Neither my nor my family, friends, colleagues lives are materially different since Musk became a Trillionaire than when he was just some billionaire
@WolfgangRichtEU It should be seized, converted into paper money & then burnt to provide an endless energy source for the needy. That'd be true equalisation
We need to think creatively on how to dispose of other people's wealth
@BladeoftheS In the late 80's me & missus had a corpy flat in a block. Fucking awful useless council bent as fuck expensive as fuck max. Poll / Council Tax
My daughter privately rents by choice for work reasons. Proportionally cheaper & far better
Councils make the worst landlords
@BladeoftheS When it's enacted (Q3 2026) it'll definitely do 3 things:
1. It'll raise some city funds: on current analysis about $600 million over time
2. It'll not balance the city's budget, missing by $ billions
3. It'll be spun as success & failure by each political faction respectively
@ClaudiaWebbe I know. The fact that he's done this is an absolute shocker. All it takes is one Labour MP who's not a bandwagon jumping dickhead & the whole thing goes jugs up
@SenWarren I always look forward to receiving my allocation of sanctimonious lecturing from arrogant, overprivileged & tone deaf multimillionaires about how they're the good guys but billionaires & beyond are the Nemesis of all good folk
Fuck her & the other Dickheads
@craigh_ That the tech bitches were gonna have a fit over this isn't any surprise & I've watched parallels with their reactions particularly where the ban in Oz was concerned
But if it's gonna be a ban then it has to cover all platforms & as yet the list hasn't even been published
@BladeoftheS The only bargaining chip TW has left is maybe the IP on their operating systems which is effectively worthless under UK law
Other than that the government really should let it keel over & pay fuck all other than TUPE for it
Now that'd be an election winner
@stuey_beef Unfortunately because of the way in which the UK has gone after energy & particularly generating policies we are for now & in the medium term reliant on imported energy including electricity
Not forever & it works both ways but I doubt Starmer's got the backbone to negotiate
@JohnCrookes7 Being a good PM is completely irrelevant given that he's leading a government & a PLP that's effectively unmanageable being filled with socio-economic illiterates
The behaviour of MP's up to & including cabinet level is fuck all to do with any media or malign foreign influence
๐จ THEY ARE LITERALLY LAUGHING IN YOUR FACE.
Keir Starmer has just flown off to the G7 summit in France to lecture the world about security while our own military collapses in real time. ๐คก
He proudly told journalists at the summit that there is absolutely no new money for the British armed forces!
This is happening on the exact same day the Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir Richard Knighton, warned Parliament that our military operations must be dialled back due to a massive cash shortage!
Starmer has already lost both his Defence Secretary and his Armed Forces Minister in a historic double resignation.
Yet he is swanking around France playing the global statesman, robbing other public departments just to paper over the cracks of his failed plans. ๐ท
You pay the highest taxes in history, your local services get slashed to fund his black holes, and our country is left completely defenceless on the world stage.
He is an absolute embarrassment!
RT if you see right through this globalist charade and want this Westminster circus gone! ๐๐ฌ๐ง๐ฅ
@Peston Well thank heavens the long suffering UK electorate no longer has to witness the political psychodramas that so characterised the Tories' latter years in so called government
We really are pissed off with self serving spoilt incompetents
They will never listen or learn
@martinshawx I don't know if this crybaby shitbag behaviour is some modern media driven phenomenon, wherein if there's a decision or ruling some oppose or don't agree with; then they flounce round weeping & beard pulling because they didn't get their own way
@HonestHalo My jury is out for now on this. We've not seen a definitive list of platforms yet, or at least a basically structured method of both enacting & maintaining the ban as well as how it's being resourced
So it does look a bit cart before horse again