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wife, mum, Motherwell fan🌸

[lauraS @lor117]

@robinmonotti England must have a lot more CO2 than Scotland....

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

It genuinely amused me that people think replacing Starmer will make things better.

From Boris Johnson's election onwards, we've been shuffling the bollards on the Titanic.

You have to actually change direction if you want to avoid crashing into the iceberg:

- End Net Zero
- Make business viable again
- Get welfare under control
- Fund defence
- Ensure equality under the law
- Arrest criminals and keep them in jail
- Deport illegal immigrants and close the border
- Bring the civil service to heel

Burnham will become as unpopular as Starmer within months since he isn't going to do any of that.

[lauraS @lor117]

@YeshuaFoxtrot @virginmedia Dunno, I'm in Scotland. Not had one for a while 🫤

[lauraS @lor117]

This, every word 👏👏👏

[BanksyCat @Banksycat]

UNBELIEVABLE. Your entire life sold to a billionaire and you never got a vote. DIGITAL ID. Blair brokered it, the King read it out like a shopping list, and 2.96 million of you signed a petition begging them not to. They read it, smiled, and did it anyway.

Here’s this COCKY IDIOT, smirking down the camera, telling you it's only what he was elected to do. The sheer NERVE.

They tried to force this in 2006 and the country threw it back. So they got clever. You don't force a leash on a country, you call it child safety and let them clip it on themselves. Optional, they say. Until the bank needs it. Until the job needs it. Until you can't buy milk without it. Optional the way a cliff edge is optional.

Embedded so deep that pulling it out takes the whole system down. Surviving every election. Every Prime Minister. Every one of you who never agreed to a word of it.

That's not a service. It's a LEASH. Heavy surveillance with a friendly logo, built to watch you, price you, and switch you off the second you say the wrong thing. Once it turns, it never turns back.

Now watch him smirk through it. FIVE times he stood there and said it's not possible. FIVE. Like a parrot that learned one phrase and mistook it for genius, reciting his greatest hits to a country that stopped clapping months ago, taking a bow in an empty theatre.

Wrong every time, he sneers. No, sunshine. Wrong about the boats. The bills. The borders. The only thing he's right about is how much he adores the sound of his own voice telling you he's right.

Watch what he's smirking THROUGH. The most despised Prime Minister this country has ever recorded. Ministers bolting for the door. MPs begging him to leave. A man waist deep in his own wreckage, straightening his tie for the cameras.

He was elected to serve this country. Not gift-wrap your private life and post it to the highest bidder who filled Blair's pockets fastest.

A landslide, he calls it. Won on barely a third of the vote, the emptiest mandate in living memory, worn like a crown God lowered onto his head.

Biggest NHS drop in 17 years, he beams. For ONE month. While 7.3 million still rot on the list.

Highest growth in the G7, he says. For ONE quarter. The next month it shrank. Funny how he forgot that bit.

Then everything he left off the brochure. TEN things not one of you voted for. Not one in his manifesto.

Winter fuel torn off ten million pensioners. Biggest tax raid since 1993. The thresholds Reeves swore she'd never freeze, frozen. Energy bills up after he promised cuts. The family farm tax. WASPI women promised the earth, handed a shrug. Grooming inquiry sat on six months. Post offices for the chop. Chagos given away.

And the tenth, buried deepest. Digital ID, held up behind the children like a human shield, because who argues with protecting kids. Then they vote to come for your VPN, the one tool that let you slip the net, and bolt the last door behind you.

Here's the punchline that should make your blood boil. Australia tried this exact ban. Months later the children strolled straight through it. It didn't protect ONE child. It was never built to. The children were never the point. The contract was.

Blair gets richer. Ellison gets richer. Then they plug it into Europe so the same machine prints money across a continent. Every regime that ever pulled this used the same excuse. China. Russia. North Korea. Protect the people. Then own them.

The children were never the target. They were the costume. You were never protected. You were harvested, and told to say thank you.

So watch him smirk and call it a mandate. It was never a mandate. It's the biggest robbery in plain sight this country has ever seen, dressed up as the will of the people and sold back to you as kindness.

Once it turns, it never turns back.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The ban on social media for children under 16 is an idea that has merits. But the way it is being done is simply a way to force everyone, including adults, to identify themselves online, creating the most powerful surveillance and censorship architecture in human history.

[Alan D Miller @alanvibe]

Never in any Manifesto

Never put to the Public

Millions said No

@Keir_Starmer this is your albatross & the shame of hoisting this into King’s Speech is disgraceful as is your contempt for the Public

#scrapdigitalid #together

[lauraS @lor117]

@BloodyPolitics @JohnSwinney Yes, this is exactly why I won't be voting for them. This and "Isla" Bryson.
Oh aye... and the ferries 🤦‍♀️. (used to be a card carrying member too)

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

Can you believe humans were literally gifted a planet overflowing with trees, food, water, medicine, and sunshine?

Yet somehow we said, “Let’s invent debt, political parties, and war.”

[Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD @zoeharcombe]

I find this plausible 😉♥️

[MAVERICK X @MAVERIC68078049]

A two-megawatt windmill is made up of 260 tons of steel that required 300 tons or iron ore and 170 tons of coking coal, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. It hold 700 gallons of oil and hydraulic fluid, and like car these need to be replaced every 9 months.

People might fall for the idea that we can merrily run on sunshine and breezes, alone, but with a few trillion dollars worth of mythical mega-batteries providing backup for a few minutes, it could spin until it falls apart over and over again and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.

[lauraS @lor117]

@Iromg Please don't tar us all with the one brush. As a ST holder & Motherwell fan, the Ugly Sisters continue to embarrass us all.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

This is Spain… Where hundreds of thousands of ancient olive trees are being ripped out and replaced with solar panels.

Trees, bees and insects all wiped out. You know .. to save the planet 🤡

[Queen Bee @KingBobIIV]

So, let me get this straight: you want to increase mining and child slavery in countrys like The Congo, ship those elements to China, so they can burn coal to power their factories, to build solar panels, to be shipped half away around the world in containers using oil, and cover the British countryside in Solar panels, destroying vital habitat, farmland, and natural flood planes, because you dont want the uk to use fossil fuels - "for the environment"? ...For a country that contributes less than 1% of all the entire world's pollution?

So we can save £117 a year on fuel bills? £2.25 a week.

Are you absolutely utterly f*cking stupid?

Seriously, genuine question - are you absolutely f*cking stupid?

[Cristo @cristo_radio]

So a man invited to the BAFTA’s as inspiration for a film demonstrating the horrific hostility and lack of understanding people with Tourette’s face… is now facing horrific hostility and a lack of understanding over his Tourette’s?

Have I got that right? 🤦

[lauraS @lor117]

@StevenJonMiller Yes

[Fiona Rose Diamond @CoviLeaks]

Let’s get one thing straight before they gaslight you into swallowing this. This is NOT just about “age verification” so kids can’t scroll TikTok.

The under-16s social media ban, and the under-18s VPN ban, is digital verification for everyone; because the only way to enforce it is to make every single person prove their age, prove their identity, and “check in” with the State before accessing the modern internet.

And yes… you already know where it leads.

OneLogin.

A centralised identity system designed to collect your credentials and your biometrics (face, iris, fingerprint) and bind them to a single government account.

This ban is not the end goal.
It is one verification type.
One tiny draconian token.
One single piece of the Digital ID puzzle.

And the equation remains the same:

OneLogin + GOV Wallet = Digital ID.

Age verification will become one token on that wallet, but first, before the wallet is fully normalised, before it’s “rolled out” to every citizen through exclusion and coercion, they’ll do what they always do:

They’ll introduce the gate first.

To access a VPN, a social media site, or even an AI tool, you will be forced to “prove” you are over 16 or 18 — and the proof won’t be a private check, or a local device setting, or a parental control.

It will be a government check.
A government login.
A government permission slip.

You will have to “check in” with GOV OneLogin to access the internet like a normal person — and soon enough a token for this will be issued into the GOV Wallet, just like the proposed BritCard token that has now allegedly been “scrapped.”

This is the same system, the same architecture, the same rollout pattern... just with a different sticker slapped on the front.

And once the token exists, it becomes the default.
Once it becomes the default, it becomes the requirement.

Once it becomes the requirement, it becomes the leash.

Because what they’re building is not an age gate.
It’s a permission gate.
A surveillance gate.

A system where your ability to access platforms, services, information, communication — your ability to exist online — becomes conditional on your compliance with a credential check that is logged, tracked, and centrally controlled.

They will see what you do.
When you do it.
What you search.
What you access.
What you post.

And people will still be saying, with a straight face:
“Well, it’s a good thing under-16s are being banned from social media… they’ll be safer.”

That’s the bait.

Then you hear Starmer say: “How will parents police this alone?”

And notice what he’s really saying.

He is not empowering parents.

He is positioning the government next to parents, granting the State the same “authority” to parent your child, to decide what is healthy, what is harmful, what is permitted, what is “wellbeing,” and what must be restricted.

The same government that has lied to you for years about safety.

The same government that signs away your rights in the name of protection.

The same government that cannot define a woman, cannot secure a border, cannot arrest a p3dophile (rather employs and promotes them), cannot run a hospital — but somehow wants you to believe it can be trusted to police your child’s mind.

And if you think this is going through “proper process,” think again.

A month ago they announced a consultation on the under-16s ban. That consultation is a red herring.

Because Starmer’s little phrase “Fast Track” is just PR language for something much uglier:

Henry VIII powers.

Powers that allow ministers to change legislation without parliamentary scrutiny, without debate, without any democratic friction.

And that means the actual rules — the ones that govern your data, your access, your verification, your wallet, your permissions — will not be written on the floor of the House.

They will be written by an unelected civil servant in a closed room, and rubber-stamped by a Secretary of State.

The consultation is not democracy. It is the hologram of democracy. Designed to make you feel heard while the law is already coded, the architecture already built, and the enforcement mechanism already chosen.

And it gets worse.

Because this ban is being routed through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill; a bill that will receive Royal Assent before the consultation even ends.

So what exactly are you “consulting” on?
A decision that’s already been made.
A system that’s already being implemented.

A lock that’s already being installed on your front door while they ask you what colour you’d like the handle to be.

Then there’s the Unique Identifier for ALL children.

They will sell it as “tracking attendance.”
But it isn’t an attendance system.
It is a digital tether.

A permanent state identifier for your child, designed to follow them across systems, databases, services, education, healthcare, “wellbeing,” behavioural monitoring, and digital permissions.

And once you combine a Unique Identifier with digital tokens, with “digital wellbeing” regulation, with AI-driven scoring, you have built something monstrous:

A system where a child’s “Wellbeing Score” can drop — determined by government-approved metrics, possibly processed by government AI — and the State can remotely revoke their digital tokens.

Effectively deleting their social existence until they comply.

No access.
No platform.
No digital participation.
No “privileges.”
Just compliance.

And here’s the part people are missing:

They are granting themselves the power to amend the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill without proper parliamentary scrutiny and without waiting for the consultation to end.

They are giving the Secretary of State delegated powers to regulate “digital wellbeing” which is a euphemism so broad you could drive an authoritarian regime through it.

They can amend laws at any time.
They can expand definitions at any time.
They can widen the net at any time.

Meaning the Prime Minister and Secretaries of State become the architects and the judges.

The lawmakers and the enforcers.

And Henry VIII powers are named after a tyrant for a reason. Because they were designed for a monarch who forced Parliament to pass laws and accept personal proclamations.

That is the lineage of the power Starmer is dressing up as “Fast Tracking.”

This isn’t safeguarding.
It’s centralisation.

And it doesn’t stop there.

The other legislation being pulled into this system is the Crime and Policing Bill which is progressing as we speak and the Online Safety Act 2023 — both of which contain mechanisms to expand and amend enforcement without passing fresh primary legislation.

Meaning they can tighten the screws without the public ever noticing.

No new “big scary bill.”
No headline.
No national debate.
Just silent regulatory expansion.
A little more coercion.
A little more surveillance.
A little more permissioning.

Until one day you wake up and the internet — the place you work, learn, communicate, bank, shop, organise, speak, and live — requires you to present a government token just to enter.

And you’ll be told it’s normal.
You’ll be told it’s safety.
You’ll be told it’s “for the children.”
This consultation is a farce.
The law is being passed.

Age verification for all will be forced upon us unless we act now, and unless people stop staring at the headline and start seeing the architecture.

This is not even the start of mission creep.

This is another step.
Another spoke.
Another token.
Another gate.

And yes, there are other ways to improve online safety.

Every person over 16 is issued with a National Insurance number.

There are privacy-preserving options.
There are local-device checks.
There are non-centralised approaches.
But that is not the point.
Because the point is not safety.
The point is control.
This is part of the digital gulag.
The panopticon.

A credentialed society where your ability to participate is conditional, permissioned, and revocable... and where the State holds the master key.

Linked below is another important post about the Digital ID stack that everyone needs to understand...

[lauraS @lor117]

The BRITcard, listen up....

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

This was spot on the money last month. Please share

[lauraS @lor117]

@OlooneyJohn If I'm honest, I couldn't be arsed watching it, John

[Pie & Bovril 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @pieandbov]

One of the greatest rip offs of our time just got even worse.

Aye, hang on and we'll all fucking walk to the airport.

[lauraS @lor117]

@Graeme_McGarry It would need to be a spectacular offer, if he did go. They're all on a journey together and by the looks of it, thoroughly enjoying it!