@ZackPolanski Wages have been kept low by mass migration. This isn't even a conspiracy theory, I've listened to interviews with people in government that said business told them they wanted more migrants to keep wages low.
If there is too much of a supply of labour, the price will fall.
@RupertLowe10 Honestly, I don't believe him to be a good or decent man either. I think that's all spin to be honest, just like how his supporters make him out to be some sort of foreign relations wizard.
Honestly, I'm glad to see the back of him. He was an abject failure of a PM.
No sympathy for him to be honest, and I'm saying that as someone that voted Labour in the last election.
It's clear he wasn't up to the task of being PM. I have been sorely disappointed with the Labour Party under his leadership. I can only hope @AndyBurnhamGM does a better job
If you want to summarise just how messed up the United Kingdom is in a single sentence:
The UK government believes that 11 year olds are too young to watch YouTube but old enough to block their puberty and render themselves infertile.
@campbellclaret Makerfield was a unique situation in which a vote for the party in government was also a vote against the government.
I would avoid reading too much into this one by-election that Reform has peaked. Even if Burnham replaces Starmer, he could fall flat on his arse by the next GE
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The last sentence is the real meat and potatoes of this.
What's being promoted as a 'social media ban for children', is really an ID check for every adult.
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.