There was an election, both parties said this Act was going to happen.
It depends what you mean by government but elected officials in the UK are almost completely irrelevant in this (and in most other things, their job is to get in front of a TV camera say how appalled they are that it has happened, no-one could have foreseen this, don't look back in anger, and that they are going to select from the same policy options that the Civil Service presented the last government with...which results in the same conclusion: more civil servants, more regulation, more corruption).
Ofcom has been making a massive power grab, this bill and other recent regulations are granting them massive new powers, and the UK has a system in which ministers have no functional capacity to block this.
Oh give over. This is politician led. If you think this is some civil servant's unilateral wet dream you have a serious misunderstanding of how the UK government and the civil service work. You would do better reading up on these institutions than blaming all the countries ill's on some nebulous idea of "Civil Servants as Illuminati".
I’m afraid this is nonsense. Elected officials aren’t irrelevant. The majority of them support this legislation and that is why it got enough votes to become law. You don’t have to like it (I’m not a huge fan either), but it’s a perfectly straightforward case of a popular policy becoming law via the democratic process. A process that’s notoriously imperfect and not guaranteed to yield the best outcome in all cases.
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that this law must have come about by sinister machinations just because you don’t think it’s a good law.
Arguably yes, by not overthrowing the mullahs and taking back control. Of course this is easier said than done, but it's not like revolutions haven't happened before in history.
skippyboxedhero|7 months ago
It depends what you mean by government but elected officials in the UK are almost completely irrelevant in this (and in most other things, their job is to get in front of a TV camera say how appalled they are that it has happened, no-one could have foreseen this, don't look back in anger, and that they are going to select from the same policy options that the Civil Service presented the last government with...which results in the same conclusion: more civil servants, more regulation, more corruption).
Ofcom has been making a massive power grab, this bill and other recent regulations are granting them massive new powers, and the UK has a system in which ministers have no functional capacity to block this.
celticninja|7 months ago
foldr|7 months ago
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking that this law must have come about by sinister machinations just because you don’t think it’s a good law.
octo888|7 months ago
We are not technically a two party system and more than a handful voted for parties other than Labour and the Conservatives
OldfieldFund|7 months ago
drnick1|7 months ago