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I note that here I am in the UK, and the current home secretary appears to be Priti Patel. Who is far more hardline on this than the EU, and not in the good dir
by EliRivers 6y ago
I note that here I am in the UK, and the current home secretary appears to be Priti Patel. Who is far more hardline on this than the EU, and not in the good direction.
If we left at the last minute, it's so that we can go faster. One of the things we are deliberately jettisoning is the protections afforded us by being in the EU.
- intricatedetail 6y agoWe now have more control and we can vote for a party that could fix this.
- djaychela 6y agoThere won't be a party who has a chance of being elected that could 'fix' this.
- EliRivers 6y agoWe could. We won't. People who cared about this in the UK; our best bet was to stay in the EU which is not nearly so extreme about it as the UK is. The current UK government is looking forwards to jettisoning the protections and human rights that were afforded us by being in the EU. That said, the current UK government is fantastically inept. Everything they touch turns to shit, and any time BoJo says he absolutely won't do something - he'll crumble in a fortnight (see e.g. every EU negotiation, Lockdown 2.0, the feeding children fiasco, etc etc). There are current UK ministers whose names have become bywords for incompetency and government fuckup. If the UK decided to ban encryption tomorrow, and the government put their best people on it, we'd be looking at a decade or so before they got anywhere. The EU are heading to a more moderate place, but they will get there faster by virtue of not being British; by not having to do it via the dream team of Johnson, Cummings, and whoever is in charge of screwing up everything they touch this week (Chris Grayling, the man who paid millions to a ferry company that had never owned, chartered, leased or in any other way been involved with a ferry or single ferry route, historically takes this role).
- raspyberr 6y agoCould you please name a party who's against this? The Pirate Party UK recently disbanded. There is no one to vote for and practically starting a party won't achieve much. Seriously, give me a party to vote for to reduce the state of surveillance in the UK.
- intricatedetail 6y agoIt does not exist because there is no public awareness. One of the parties could start looking into it and make noise. But if it won't catch up with the public it won't happen, however without EU at least we have a chance.
- m4rtink 6y agoThe Czech pirat party is dping rather well on both local and european level - it meeds a lot of work, but it can be done!
- intricatedetail 6y agoIt's much less work to convince one country than dozens.
- EliRivers 6y agoWhich is why we can now watch our protections and human rights and other such vanish into the distance. Without the need to convince dozens of other countries to join in, the UK can fuck itself over. The greatest threat to the liberties of the British people remains its own government and ruling classes.
- Udik 6y ago> the current home secretary appears to be Priti Patel. Ah, Priti Patel, the minister that was forced to resign by the May government for having had several secret meetings with Israeli officials during her tenure. Enjoy the UK!
- EliRivers 6y agoOh go on, it's worse than that. She wanted to fund Israeli Army hospitals in the Golan Heights out of the UK foreign aid budget. Off her own back, without telling anyone.