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Re:Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws... by dijit on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:30AM (#38853293)
I think it's wrong to say that nothing is being done to investigate them.

However there's a weird thing that I've witnessed. Large crimes are being ignored and instead non-crimes (or minor-crimes) are blown out of proportion. Then the investigations consume all the oxygen eventually sliding off the ruling party like water off a duck.

A rotation of cabinet, a new face to lead and all is forgotten it seems. Faith in the alternative parties is also shockingly low (not that I am a labour supporter under Kier.. but that's also kinda my point).

People would rather lurch even further right for answers, many people loudly supporting "Reform UK" which is the political refit of "the brexit party" and even before that was the "UK independence party"- a purely populist party.

HOWEVER.

The UK has been on the decline since 1992 (or earlier) and managing a nation in decline must be extremely difficult. Nobody is willing accept that they're poorer, financial services need the pound to remain strong so they keep the currency from falling which in turn makes everyone unable to afford to live.

It is a sticky situation with no clear answer other than to muck down and face the reality that if we want to be a wealthy nation again we either need to go back to exploiting other countries or produce things of value.

Re:Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws... by FiniteField on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:59AM (#38853541)
>People would rather lurch even further right for answers

God forbid we have an even more "far right" government than the one that has overseen a full decade of all-time-high immigration, has utterly failed to stop the years-long exponential increase in illegal boat border crossings, has swept under the rug the revelations of rape gangs operating in towns and cities all throughout England, has rolled out the red carpet for agitative gender and race activist groups to take root in every institution from museums to universities to primary schools to the civil service, ....

Re:Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws... by dijit on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @08:32AM (#38853824)
I think we're more in agreement than you think; the difference is that I think that this is the nature of the right wing in the UK in general.

The issue is that the right wing will tell you things you want to hear and then either: not do those things, or they "solve" them in a way that cuts you off at the knees.

I'm not sure if it's a right wing thing in general but it's definitely something I see the right wing in the UK and US do a lot. Populism seems to be a lot about treating symptoms not causes, so if there's a migration crisis: lets make life so bad in the country that people don't want to live here!

Re:Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws... by Eisenstein on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @08:34AM (#38853852)
Are these the issues that are causing economic decline and the corruption of your government?
Re:Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws... by pjc50 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:38AM (#38853359)
> Large crimes are being ignored and instead non-crimes (or minor-crimes) are blown out of proportion

As always: by whom? And the answer: the press.

The UK media are pro-Tory and far-right to such an extent that they quietly ignore all this massive corruption in favor of slamming alternatives down at every opportunity. The only exception recently has been the Mirror's dogged "partygate" series.

Re:Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws... by _heimdall on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @07:56AM (#38853516)
Are the crimes being ignored by the media still being tried in court?
Re:Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws... by pjc50 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @08:06AM (#38853592)
The PPE Medpro investigation is proceeding, slowly. A long way off court yet. https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accoun...

Cash-for-peerages has been so normalized that there's not even an investigation.

(The court system largely works against whistleblowing in the UK, because of the very high risk and cost of losing a libel lawsuit even if you're mostly correct)

Re:Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws... by varispeed on Thursday January 04, 2024 @05:06AM (#38865240)
Because agencies that are supposed to investigate are corrupt themselves.