Michael

[Jim Nauseum 2.0 @jim_nauseum2]

@michaelgove 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[Michael @Msx190]

How can you be technology minister when you are completely and utterly devoid of any understanding of the technology of which you seek to ban. Drunk on power.

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

'We will make further statements in July about VPNs and further restrictions'

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall told #BBCBreakfast she will outline more details next month about the social media ban on under 16s in the UK - as well as additional restrictions on Virtual Private Networks, curfews and chatbots

https://t.co/t05fQ28cFO

[Michael @Msx190]

@kafkaswife Left wing tyranny in the form of save the children. If I was in my 20s I’d be leaving.

[Michael @Msx190]

@SlantedInn @PaulHai01621733 @PolitlcsUK For now. But if they enforce vpn companies to use kyc methods in future then no. Equally you are transferring your anonymity to the vpn providers server and your isp can still see which ip addresses you’ve connected to and at what time, for how long.

[Michael @Msx190]

@Nigel_Farage https://t.co/U7ey1XTBSn

[Michael @Msx190]

@PolitlcsUK https://t.co/U7ey1XTBSn

[Michael @Msx190]

@NoToDigitalID https://t.co/U7ey1XTBSn

[Michael @Msx190]

@paulmasonnews Papers please Paul

[Michael @Msx190]

@PaulHai01621733 @PolitlcsUK By forcing everyone to prove their age by submitting their id to various third party companies. they are compromising everyones privacy and security to “think of the children”

[Michael @Msx190]

@danny__kruger At the same time they are giving Palantir access to pii and health data which is not anonymised. Something very weird is going on.

[Michael @Msx190]

@brockpierson Yes

[Michael @Msx190]

@PolitlcsUK @thetimes It’s so dumb and disgusting. We need a general election.

[Michael @Msx190]

@dakin19 @Jay10_6 I mean YouTube and online learning platforms offer more value than over priced PowerPoint slide delivered degrees. Kind of like the givernment are banning innovation

[Michael @Msx190]

@prestonjbyrne We have the dumbest people setting the dumbest policies. Public sector workers with no understanding of the underlying technology. It’s an absolute embarrassment. They just think banning something is the answer and don’t care compromising everyone’s privacy.

[Michael @Msx190]

@bbclaurak @mollyroseorg I’m deeply sorry for his loss but banning is not the answer. Educating children about what they may see online and the harmful consequences is much better and also doesn’t compromise everybody else’s privacy. You can’t keep children in a bubble forever.

[Michael @Msx190]

@lewis_goodall It’s not real wealth - inflated numbers on a spreadsheet.

[Michael @Msx190]

@Madz_Grant @AndrewHWestern In thats the case and he feels so strong then he should make a voluntary payment to the HMRC https://t.co/pwAv7ARA6a

Or is it VAT for thee and not for me?!

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

My pinned tweet explains the background to Healey resignation.
We got real numbers in 2020 for first time in ~20 years.
Since then everything reverted to fake.
Thanks to Trolley & Wally, they let HMT and MoD shovel cash into things they KNEW were broken, like AJAX, and scuppered funding the future (e.g drones, robotics, AI, cloud).
The nuclear weapons supply chain is a multi-billion multi-decade fiasco and reinforces fake budgets.
MoD & CO used UKR war to prop up the lies and disasters, not to fix them. Trolley, Sunak and Starmer all went along with: classify, punt, spin fake budgets.
All these chickens are coming home to roost.
The DIP is a disaster because it combines: a/ continuing to fund old things which shd be scrapped but senior people's careers rest on lying about, b/ failure to fund the future, c/ more dodgy accounts, d/ classified nuke shitshow, which forces lies/cannibalisation of conventional, and e/ continued failure to change procurement and long term budgets despite covid and UKR.
Ive said this 100 times for years.
Also relevant to resignation --
In 2020, I got the PM & CHX to agree to take the next gen fighter AWAY from HMT and MoD. (FOI the doc screenshotted below!)
They were using a bogus 'above STRAP 3 study' to claim that AI would be irrelevant to future fighters in 2045. This 'top secret' study was written *before* DeepMind was created!!
We agreed to take away the next gen fighter/drones from MoD/HMT and put them into a new civilian project with huge commercial development of drones/robotics/AI, with procurement and budgets done totally outside normal system (like vaccines, ARPA etc).
After I left this was u-turned along with shredding all the true budget numbers.
The MoD and HMT proceeded with the usual procurement with BaE.
This has now blown up *as it was obvious it would SIX YEARS ago'.
HMT is refusing to fund it because the MoD is a corrupt shambles.
And MoD is knackered by the HMT's insane budget processes and insane procurement.
HMT and MoD have reasonable complaints about each other. 'Everyone's right and everyone's unhappy'.
The only way out is the Vote Leave plan and No10 smashing heads together with the full authority of the PM, as in the secret process of 2020. It cannot be left to 'normal processes'. Senior people must be forced to tell the truth 'or you're fired'. We did this. It works!
The MPs refuse to engage. The MPs on defence committee say they cannot ask officials re the 2020 process because 'they'll just refuse to answer'.
But our enemies know everything everything I say is true!
It is impossible for dud Starmer to solve these problems.
It is good timing that Burnham will soon take over and could draw a line under decades of Tory failure and set out a new path...
But there will be HUGE pressure from the old system, in HMT and MoD, to patch everythign up with more lies, spin, fake accounts, and massive classification...
Maybe some MPs could finally pay attention to these issues and resolve to stop constant lies, please!
Our security, prosperity and critical technologies are at stake and the old parties and old Whitehall are pathological!
NB. In 2020 we also bought LEO satellites. SW1 laughed. Starlink has been critical in UKR. Whitehall sold off the satellites!
NB. In March 2022 when the UKR disaster started I wrote: 'Prediction: 1) lessons from UKR will overwhelmingly support the arguments of those who in 2020 argued for radical MoD changes (including taking money from old tank projects that everybody privately admitted were a multi-billion pound disaster) and 2) the correct criticism of the review and connected documents will be seen as a) they did not go nearly far enough, b) the collapse of No10 follow through on defence reform in 2021 was — like the collapse of 2020 plans for planning reform, tax cuts, deregulation, Project Speed, intense focus on R&D and skills etc — a disaster for the country (and a political disaster for the Tory Party).'
NB. Special Forces who have observed the drone wars in UKR have told the senior MoD repeatedly that the mega expensive things they want to plough cash into in the DIP will get VAPOURISED in a real war by cheap drones! The SF are told to shut up and not give HMT a chance to cut the budgets!
I know it's psychologically extremely hard for SW1 but Vote Leave worked with the deep state on this in 2020 and we were right on all the big things.
The disastrous old processes have now blown up with unprecedented resignation over these exact issues.
6 years have been wasted. Tens of billions have been wasted. Lives lost. Talent resigned.. Opportunities to lead squandered...
All over Whitehall are officials involved in 2020 who know what I say is true, the MPs and hacks should finally get the details into the public...

Maybe SW1 could update its mental models?!

Ps. if you're a hack still getting Ciaran 'AI is fake, PRC infiltration is overrated' Martin to comment on tech, you're as dud as Starmer

[Michael @Msx190]

@ShippersUnbound Fact is now Labour really are anti-growth with only regard for the benefit scroungers, immigrants and public sector. There needs to be general election becaus growth was such a large part of their sales pitch to the public and their policies are leading to precisely the opposite.

[Michael @Msx190]

@FraserNelson I know the Bank of England were massively behind the inflation shock of 2020 and kept saying it was transitory but this is just too far!