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[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Not a chance. The UK already surrendered to tech. The mastorbaitorbase and age checks just gave or will give tech everyone's face and likeness and put together with everything said or done or looked at to parse with ai threat detection and catalogue how much you love israel first but everthing else second, because politicians and oligarchs and swells on video fucking children with epstein from the uk and us it's always israel first.

The UK gets a copy of the data tech is taking from everyone basically, they surrendered their citizens to tech, and hired palantir and their ilk to make social scores to be secretly used against everyone.

But it's "our" side so we are cool with it. Cancel jury trials why you are at it, the right to protest, defenses against protest that can win even as they charge decades in prison for protest related crimes. Israel, climate, environmental now, anything disfavored coming. Now politicians unilaterally declaring terrorist groups based on bad faith information. Then capriciously equating protest of a subject with the proscribed group to make them supporting terrorism even if they didn't mention that group.

This labor government has done more damage in a few years than the conservatives did in all of theirs. Corbyn fucked up not purging the establishment, and allowing them to keep the party enforcement mechanism. They purged the actual left under bad faith patently false allegations, became unpopular, and just waited to get in for not being the other guy.

Meanwhile the far right is the only ones running a reform ticked, under the reform party. They will get in because labor and the tories eat bags of oligarchic dick, then with the US and Russia put a fix in, and then take more liberty than any despite getting elected railing against that liberty being cancelled, labor cancelling the magna carta and the liberty of the enlightenment.