November Politics Thread: Countdown To The Lizard Cull

[Aggpass]

Basically that face

[japes]

why would diane abbott dolls be flying off the shelves at christmas if people were given one for free

not sure that joke works tbh

[hip_young_gunslinger]

Comrade:

• Rhymes with mad
• Rhymes with made

[Owensmaterob]

EXACTLY that face

[Aggpass]

Also the shops will mostly be closed on Christmas day anyway, even if you did have to go and pick one up in person

[tungstentippedscrews]

I have nothing to offer but other people’s memes

[suapth]

[wewerewerewolvesonce]

There’s literally a dude in the comments trying to use trickle down economics as a defense for non-nationalized models, my actual sides.

[guntrip]

Basically - councils have a monitoring role, so have to hassle businesses to find out who their provider is and when waste is collected. If they can’t get those details, they have investigate what the business is doing with their waste, and prosecute them if necessary.

They also still have a general duty to keep the streets clean, so if Bins-R-Us didn’t collect (and the business didn’t chase them up, or they did and Bins-R-Us just didn’t do anything), or the business just doesn’t use anyone, we’d just end up picking it up.

So much simpler just to not bother and make (and fund) councils to collect all waste.

[hip_young_gunslinger]

Laura Kuenssberg (bbclaurak)

They would stop you tweeting Laura.

[guntrip]

Would be much easier to ban the grot if everyone used a public internet service, is this the policy to win around social conservatives?

[guntrip]

[wewerewerewolvesonce]

Apparently some people also use roads for purposes that are not beneficial to some abstract notion of the common good, interesting dilemma, I have a very big brain.

[marckee]

This is what I mean by performative ignorance. The government would own and install the cables. It wouldn’t run the ISPs.

FFS

[the_ravens]

Just make some deep fakes of Boris or Thatcher or Farage or May doing porn. No one would get aroused ever again

[Aggpass]

This might be interesting dilemma - wondering what govt provider of roads would do, or could do, about drivers on free public roads that are not beneficial to the common good, or use roads for grim purposes

Very intelligent point

[anon76851889]

This is what I mean by performative ignorance. The government would own and install the cables. It wouldn’t run the ISPs.

Actually it’s a valid concern - own the network, you have the ability to block/allow what you want on it.

What it ignores is that the government already exercises that control over the existing privatised networks.

[eems]

hardly any ‘normal’ people have any idea how any networking infrastructure works at all .

However for some reason they all think they do,

Outside of Virgin, who own their own infrastructure, the ISPs are having their potential markets opened up. All that’s happening is the (re)nationalisation of the Openreach part of BT which has a monopoly anyway.

Broadband connectivity in Scotland is much higher than England & Wales because so much of the population lives in the central belt.

[marckee]

The policy is also tied to this, which is very good, and shows that the leadership and membership that are driving the manifesto come from the anti-authoritarian wing of the Labour party

Nick Srnicek (n_srnck)

[kiyonemakibi]

Ally Fogg (AllyFogg)