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It's not like people don't care. People I know deeply care about this, but there is nothing you can do about it. Government has even banned the right to protes
by varispeed 3y ago
It's not like people don't care. People I know deeply care about this, but there is nothing you can do about it.
Government has even banned the right to protest. Given the cost of living crisis and economy going down the pan, nobody wants to risk their job and roof over their heads to protest something that is going to happen anyway.
Everyone I know will be voting against Conservative party and that is currently the only way to stop them.
- domh 3y agoAre the Labour party even against this though?
- pjc50 3y agoNot particularly. The Blair-era government was also pretty pro-surveillance.
- switch007 3y agoIndeed. The opposite of Conservative is not Labour.
- toyg 3y agoIt's ever so slightly more likely to bow to public pressure, because they are ever so slightly less dependent on moneyed elites funding them (the bulk of their financial backing comes from trade unions). At this point, every little counts.
- ben_w 3y ago> It's not like people don't care. People I know deeply care about this, but there is nothing you can do about it. If Brexit hadn't happened, I would've tried to keep campaigning against the Investigatory Powers Act (that lets the Welsh Ambulance Service see which domains you've visited without a warrant). I figured Brexit would make it impossible to undo; I think in retrospect I was right for the wrong reasons — I thought the rhetoric of Brexit would only be satisfied by also taking the UK out of all international human rights courts and treaties, rather than it would require 150% of all available political focus from basically everyone in the country.