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[Gangster Octopus]

My Government and I say: Fuck You Plebs!

[Benjm]

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Andrew Mitchell drafted the Queen's Speech?

I knew he'd worm his way back in somehow.

[Duncan Gardner]

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He delivered it to Buck House by bike.

[Ginger Yellow]

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Does Private Eye have a "hard working families/citizens-balls" column yet? Because it should.

The purpose of the Bill is to:
• Protect hard-working citizens from the risks posted by untested, unknown and
potential harmful drugs.

Seriously? Non-citizens and the unemployed can just overdose, for all the government cares?

[San Bernardhinault]

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Even the slightly indolent can't die, apparently.

[Ginger Yellow]

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They really don't want you to know what's actually in the Investigatory Powers Bill:

Investigatory Powers Bill
“New legislation will modernise the law on communications data.”
The purpose of this legislation is to:
• Provide the police and intelligence agencies with the tools to keep you and
your family safe.
• Address ongoing capability gaps that are severely degrading the ability of law
enforcement and intelligence agencies ability to combat terrorism and other
serious crime.
• Maintain the ability of our intelligence agencies and law enforcement to target
the online communications of terrorists, paedophiles and other serious
criminals.
• Modernise our law in these areas and ensure it is fit for purpose.
• Provide for appropriate oversight and safeguard arrangements.
The main benefits of these clauses would be:
• Better equipping law enforcement and intelligence agencies to meet their key
operational requirements, and addressing the gap in these agencies’ ability to
build intelligence and evidence where subjects of interest, suspects and
vulnerable people have communicated online.
• Maintain the ability of our intelligence agencies to target the online
communications of terrorists, and other relevant capabilities.
• Provide for appropriate oversight arrangements and safeguards.
• This will respond to issues raised in the independent review by the
Independent Reviewer of Counter-Terrorism legislation, which is due to be
published shortly.
The main elements of the clauses are:
• The legislation covers all investigatory powers including communications
data, where the Government has long maintained that the gap in capabilities
are putting lives at risk.
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• The legislation will enable the continuation of the targeting of terrorist
communications and other capabilities.

Two whole pages that don't specify a single measure.

[Ginger Yellow]

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Oh, and the idea to make Ofcom regulate broadcasters over "extremist content" is in there too. Police will be able to "stop individuals from engaging in extremist behaviour".

[Bizarre Löw Triangle]

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Ginger Yellow wrote: Does Private Eye have a "hard working families/citizens-balls" column yet? Because it should.

The purpose of the Bill is to:
• Protect hard-working citizens from the risks posted by untested, unknown and
potential harmful drugs.

Seriously? Non-citizens and the unemployed can just overdose, for all the government cares?

Going to form a neo-Makhnovist army who will march under the banner: "Death to all those who stand in the way of aspiration for hardworking families"

[ursus arctos]

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"British Bill of Rights"?

Or did that die on the cutting room floor?

[Gangster Octopus]

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A "consultation". And a picture of Gove in a frock.

[Geoffrey de Ste. Croix]

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[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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"My Government will annynce measures to crush all you pathetic specimens into the dirt, and laugh at you while they do it, reminding you that you voted for this".

[Guy Profumo]

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Gangster Octopus wrote: A "consultation". And a picture of Gove in a frock.

But critics have said that European courts have strayed into areas, such as prisoners voting rights, that should be the preserve of Parliament and should be left to the British courts.

Non Sequitur

[Ginger Yellow]

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I honestly don't know why prisoners' voting rights is such a sore point for the Tories, other than their general cuntiness. I get all the neoliberal and fiscal sovereignty stuff, even if I don't agree with it. But what great conservative principle or even crude political calculus is at stake here?

[ursus arctos]

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It's the principle of limiting access to the ballot of people who are unlikely to vote for you.

[Ginger Yellow]

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I'm not even sure that's particularly true in the UK (I'd be very interested in any empirical data though), and anyway, there are only 86k prisoners in the UK, mostly in Labour strongholds.

[ursus arctos]

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Given the degree to which UK politics have been infected by US "consultants", they may just be working off of US talking points.

[Bored Of Education]

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Ginger Yellow wrote: Does Private Eye have a "hard working families/citizens-balls" column yet? Because it should.

The purpose of the Bill is to:
• Protect hard-working citizens from the risks posted by untested, unknown and
potential harmful drugs.

Hold on, "posted"? That's not a type in the speech, is it?

[Ginger Yellow]

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It's from the background notes to the speech. There are loads of typos (eg rare for rate).

[Flynnie]

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Don't right-wingers tend to get upset when housing association tenants who make more than the minimum wage stay in their subsidized homes? I remember all the moaning when Bob Crow was outed as living in one, despite having a £140K salary.

Now we're selling private property to them at a knock-down price? We're incentivising "gaming the system"*? What a load of cunts.

*not that I think that people with a good income should be kicked out of their home, just that we shouldn't be selling them it on the cheap

[Gangster Octopus]

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Ginger Yellow wrote: there are only 86k prisoners in the UK

only! They used to say that when we reached 50k prisoners, the system would collapse...

[Ginger Yellow]

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Point being that's barely one or two constituencies' worth. Any one prison has no more than 1.5k. Even assuming full turnout, that's unlikely to swing many if any results given where they're located.