News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on UK government irate at Twitter’s surveillance API crackdown. Parent comment

Re:UK government irate at Twitter’s surveillance API crackdown by ionised on Thursday April 27, 2017 @06:33AM (#14210476)
He's slightly left-of-centre politician that the the media has basically painted as the reincarnation of Trotsky, and of course with Britain lurching ever further to the hard right wing the people lap it up.

The only problem I can see with Corbyn is that he hasn't spoken up over things like the Investigatory Powers Act, Brexit and (bad) education reforms. I like his policies but I do not like his inaction over things important to me, so I cannot support him.

I'll never vote Tory though. Never in my life.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:UK government irate at Twitter’s surveillance API crackdown by confounded on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:14PM (#14212634)
My feelings have been similar to yours, but I've ended up in the same place as Sam Kriss:

https://samkriss.com/2017/04/24/corbynism-or-barbarism-part-...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:UK government irate at Twitter’s surveillance API crackdown by ionised on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:30PM (#14212763)
This a great blog post. He makes a lot of interesting points and he sounds like he is in a similar state of near-despair to myself.

That said if I was to vote Labour it means I have to vote for Angela Eagle as my local MP, who I absolutely cannot stand. She didn't just remain silent on the issues I mentioned, she actively supported them and represents the Blairite right-wing of Labour that disenfracnhised its traditional supporter base in the first place.

[ Parent | on HN ]