Täällä seurataan Britannian lähtöä EU:sta 23.6.2016

[Maidanin Veteraanien Veljesliitto]

Törmäsin Redditissä tällaiseen



https://www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPleasa ... anning_to/

[eh]

Törmäsin Redditissä tällaiseen



https://www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPleasa ... anning_to/

2011?

[Marxin Ryyppy]

Pistetääs ny vaikka tänne kun sivuaa aihetta kuitenkin:

[Lana Ctrl-Alt-Del Rey]

Törmäsin Redditissä tällaiseen



https://www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPleasa ... anning_to/

2011?

2011 Väestönlaskentadata, oletan.

[pidetään symposium]

Mitä nää "new plans" siis on?

[Rage Kandelin]

Mitä nää "new plans" siis on?

Omalla kohdalla se tarkoitti merinokerrastoa ja kolmea paria villasukkia päällekkäin

[Maidanin Veteraanien Veljesliitto]

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2 ... fice-plans

Kun kukaan muu ei viittinyt googlettaa new statesman niin

[eh]

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2 ... fice-plans

Kun kukaan muu ei viittinyt googlettaa new statesman niin

Kyllä mä kävin niiden etusivulta kattomassa, että ei näkynyt tommosta uutista siellä pikavilkuilulla. Mutta kiitti!

[eh]

Niin siis tossa lienee vedelty tosiaan mutkia suoraksi, että on saatu raflaava otsikko ja grafiikka, mutta onhan toi kyllä nykyiselläänkin ihan hirveä laki, jolla voidaan viedä ihmiseltä ainoa kansalaisuus sillä verukkeella, että on tehnyt jotain ikävää ja että olisi mahdollista saada jonkun muun maan kansalaisuus.

[Marxin Ryyppy]

[Jesse Python]

Mitä toi ”red tape” edes tarkoittaa?

[aatos kipotti]

Mitä toi ”red tape” edes tarkoittaa?

Byrokratiaa. Ennevvanhaan - tai en tiiä olisiko vielä nykyisinkin koska Britannia - virastojen asiakirjaniput oli sidottu kauniisti solmitulla punaisella nauhalla. Siitä jäänyt nimitys red tape.

[Housut]

Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax

Upper Class Twit of the Year

[Lana Ctrl-Alt-Del Rey]

Olikos täällä jo Boriksen Duterte-liikkeestä ottaa passit pois huumeiden käyttörikoksesta kärynneiltä?

[Skid Marx]

Kovaa ajoa homesaarella kyllä.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... slation-uk

Whenever you watch a documentary about a dictator’s path to power, there comes a moment when you think: “Why didn’t people do something? They could have stopped him while there was still time.” We have now reached this moment. As Boris Johnson rams yet more powers into the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, a vaguely democratic nation is sliding towards autocracy.

It was bad enough when I wrote about this legislation last week. After the bill had mostly passed through parliament and could be properly debated, the government slipped in a series of terrifying amendments. By curtailing the right to protest, it already amounted to the most oppressive legislation tabled by a government of this country since the end of the second world war.

But now, it’s even worse. In a private letter to members of the House of Lords, the government says it intends “to introduce a new offence of interfering with the operation of key infrastructure, such as the strategic road network, railways, sea ports, airports, oil refineries and printing presses, carrying a maximum penalty of 12 months’ imprisonment, an unlimited fine, or both”.

[...]The named infrastructure is bad enough, greatly limiting the scope of protest, but what does “such as” mean? Well, if printing presses are considered key infrastructure – an offering to the Murdoch empire, whose presses were targeted by Extinction Rebellion – this might apply to any corporate or government premises, as well as any public spaces.

[...]

Johnson is the most dangerous prime minister to have presided over the UK in the democratic era. Electors are disarmed by his impression of bonhomie and bumbling, and imagine he’s in it for the bants. But if the history of the past 100 years tells us anything, it’s beware of the clowns. Again and again we have seen the warning signs: the bumbling is an act, a studied imitation of spontaneity and ineptitude. He will go to extraordinary lengths to grasp and maintain power.

When he senses a threat to his position, he moves with brutal efficiency, as the 21 Tory MPs who were suspended for opposing a no-deal Brexit can testify. He has surrounded himself with people who, like dictators’ cronies the world over, appear to be as threatening as they are damaged.

He feels unconstrained by rules, let alone by the mythical “gentleman’s agreement” that takes the place of a formal constitution in this country. He senses weakness like a shark smells blood, and knows that our political safeguards are extremely weak. With an 80-seat majority and much of the media in his pocket, he’s now exploiting the failings of our political system, with voter suppression measures, attacks on the Electoral Commission and judicial review, extensions of the Official Secrets Act and threats to the Human Rights Act.

If we let this pass, and if one day there are documentaries that cover this moment, our descendants will be astonished. Not because the people who could have stopped this were terrified into inaction, as the opponents of other proto-dictatorships were. But because they couldn’t be bothered.