waiting for summer Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽<p>I hope someone is tallying up the trillions being withdrawn from the fascist USA! Hello UK, time to cancel your nuclear future with the yankee nazis too.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CdnPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CdnPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/EuPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuPol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/UkPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UkPol</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/greens-adam-bandt-aukus-insiders/105057580" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/gre</span><span class="invisible">ens-adam-bandt-aukus-insiders/105057580</span></a></p>
Recent searches
Search options
Administered by:
#ukpol
55 posts27 participants0 posts today
"The radicalism not only has not transpired, but something else, something cold and stomach-sinking, has emerged: a government clear in its intent on making savings by targeting the most vulnerable in society – the sick, disabled people, mentally ill people. This isn’t simply a locking in of the austerity state #Labour inherited, but an extension of it."
The Guardian · Many said the Starmer era would be just Tory-lite – now it’s worse than that. Time to stop the pretence
Continued thread
There's still time to put pressure on the UK government.
The UK Secretary of State has the power to exempt small, safely moderated websites from the Online Safety duties.
We need urgent change to protect net plurality, rather than further consolidating power in monopoly platforms. We need competition for a safer Internet.
Write to your MP (UK) #SaveOurSites 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
The UK Online Safety Act comes into effect today.
Its onerous duties may cause many small sites, blogs and fedi instances to shut down or geoblock UK users when faced with potential fines and penalties.
This won't keep children safe. It'll benefit large platforms like Facebook and X that are laying waste to content moderation.
The Register · It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board
"I have no sympathy with the idea that the way to get people out of #welfare is to cut the money they have to live on."
BBC NewsKeir Starmer facing opposition to welfare cuts ahead of benefits system shake-up - live updatesLabour MP Diane Abbott urges the PM to introduce a wealth tax instead of cutting benefits ahead of a key government announcement on Tuesday.
A match made in hell. Dominic Cummings, who caused so much trouble resulting in #Brexit taking up an association with Nigel Farage. Running a Limited Company, masquerading as a political party should be a cause for major concern for everyone, including all the other political parties. Why some kind of restriction on this has not been brought in already is difficult to understand.
#UKPol #ReformUK #ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/16/nigel-farage-dominic-cummings-friendly-chat-donald-trump-elon-musk
The Guardian · Farage reportedly met Cummings for ‘friendly chat about the general scene’
Labour Party targeting people with mental health issues for more cuts, just evil.
Nothing less of a military draft, dragging the most vulnerable to indenture service knowing they're the most likely to be exploited without much protections.
The UK Online Safety Act burdens small sites with duties and penalties that they can't shoulder. They'll shut down instead, stripping us of net plurality.
There’s a simple solution:
Exempt small, safely run blogs, forums and fedi instances The government can do this now
The duties start TOMORROW – Write to your MP 
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
Received a leaflet for Reform and it was full of infuriating but vague shite as you might expect, but notably it also had photos of both Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch on it.
It just made me think that if Badenoch, the youngish DeSantisite culture warrior troll, was really going to be the Tories’ magic bullet against Reform, they wouldn’t be using her face on Reform election literature. #UKPol
Continued thread
Will you join over 1.9k people who’ve signed our petition to keep what’s stored on Apple iCloud encrypted?
The UK government is gambling with our security and playing into the hands of hackers and criminals.
Send a message: save encryption before more services are hit with technical notices.
Sign and share now
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
38 DegreesKeep our Apple data encryptedIt is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud.
Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure. It’s essential for being safe online when sending messages, shopping, doing online banking – and for storing things safely in the cloud. With the Cabinet Office estimating the cost of Cyber Crime at £21BN a year to our economy, we can’t afford to make our...
‘Absurd’
When you have the press and civil society camped outside the courtroom, the secret might be out 
Even so, we’re still denied the reasons why the UK government wants to take a battering ram to our security and privacy.
It shows contempt for the public interest in the Apple encryption case.
Press Gazette · Press shut out of Home Office’s Snoopers’ Charter Apple encryption tribunalUK news organisations unsuccessfully waited all Friday to argue a secret Apple encryption appeal against the Govt must be heard in public.
Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.
We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.
URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.
Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp
Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
"Rayner raised #Labour MPs’ worries about the depth of the cuts to the #benefits system — which include radical reforms that the former Conservative government blanched at during the “#austerity” period a decade ago.
https://www.ft.com/content/befa195d-0977-4a07-ad9d-881056472860
"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"
The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.
The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.
Other services will be hit.
https://therecord.media/google-refuses-to-deny-it-received-uk-tcn
Sign our petition 
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
therecord.mediaGoogle refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK governmentU.S. lawmakers say Google has refused to deny that it received a Technical Capability Notice from the U.K. — a mechanism to access encrypted messages that Apple reportedly received.