"Stare at a wall" is so apt bc there is literally nothing for kids to do here anymore. Parks are for young children, so teens get chased out, everything is super expensive so you can't go on a day out, and there's precious little nature left to explore.
Thats all you can do.
I’m in Dulwich. One of the more expensive areas of London, supposedly a global city, and I’m getting worse mobile phone reception that I did in Kabul a decade ago. I pay for two contracts: @O2 and @EE and neither is reliable so I can’t work.
Mobile phones are useless in vast
The favourite question of the UK press "how will you pay for it?" is met with vague mumbles about cutting it from welfare, with absolutely no follow-up on which part of welfare or what the consequences of those cuts would be.
The John Healey business is a case study in How Britain Actually Works. A big policy demand is advanced by Tony Blair, a minister resigns to acclamation, some spooky MP you never heard of gets lots of attention, generals pop up in support, not a breath of dissent or scepticism.
The John Healey business is a case study in How Britain Actually Works. A big policy demand is advanced by Tony Blair, a minister resigns to acclamation, some spooky MP you never heard of gets lots of attention, generals pop up in support, not a breath of dissent or scepticism.
@ToryWipeout@jakonian Remind me Jake, are the people who spent decades campaigning for the hillsborough law satisfied with the way it’s been implemented? Or have several of them gone on record saying they think it’s a complete betrayal of the principles the law was supposed to enshrine?
Chances are Starmer won't be PM which makes this social media ban his legacy policy.
He literally is going to leave office with nothing to his name besides Peter Mandelson and a state mandated bedtime.
There is an increased police presence in Edgware this afternoon due to today’s event at Edgware United Synagogue and protest and counter-protest.
Six protesters have been arrested so far for public order offences and criminality will not be tolerated.
@HouseOfLeavesMD@Dykeocletian Again, you’re assuming three things here; that my government is implementing this policy for the reasons they’ve stated, that they would go about such a thing in a rational manner, and that they would ever take a serious swipe at a major American corporation
@HouseOfLeavesMD@Dykeocletian I get your point, but honestly I wouldn’t be surprised. There’s also the fact that, if it’s not, we’re now expecting these kids to understand that they’re BANNED from social media, but that they won’t actually get in any trouble for violating said ban
@HouseOfLeavesMD@Dykeocletian I agree. That’s actually a very different outlook on this issue to the one that my government has, which is “you have to hand over more than enough information to steal your ID to some random third-party company before you get to use most websites, because fuck you”
@HouseOfLeavesMD@Dykeocletian getting around these measures. So the main impact this policy would actually have on them is that they would be further dissuaded from seeking help from a parent or other authority figure by the fact that they’ve already committed a crime.
@HouseOfLeavesMD@Dykeocletian Sure. Of course, if you actually think about it beyond a surface level moral panic, you might realise that the kind of kids targeted by these groups are already very online, and already perfectly capable of covering their online footprint, meaning they’d have little trouble
@HouseOfLeavesMD@Dykeocletian First off, the mass shooting stuff does specifically happen on discord, obviously pedophiles are unfortunately a presence on all social media. You do seem to have gone straight from defending my government’s draconian policy to arguing that it doesn’t go far enough though
@HouseOfLeavesMD@Dykeocletian Also, you may have heard this before, but here’s a rare “fun fact” about the UK; we have almost no mass shootings, on account of guns being illegal.
🚨 NEW: The UK social media ban for under-16s will be enforced through facial recognition, digital IDs, credit cards, open banking, passports, mobile provider checks or email age estimation
Can someone remind me when Nick Tyrone turned on Starmer? I know he’s a “centrist dad for reform” or whatever now but I can’t actually remember when the switch happened
The idea that the government wants to be able to tell me as a parent that my kids can no longer use YouTube by legal decree really underlines what a horrible, silly government we are currently suffering under.
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