#Uk politics

[ayeforscotland]

Hard to not write a novel on how utterly wrong this is.

The decline in the UK economy is due to a culture brought about by risk averse governments. They are so cautious that they never make a decision on anything.

We get puffed chests about being world leaders in ‘AI’, and barely any deeper thought is given to how we actually do that. It’s always played for the media, and it’s always accompanied with the publication of a white paper that suggests all the various things they could try to do.

But then nothing comes of it. They do not want to take any action. They instead hope that a private company gets lucky and ‘becomes a unicorn’.

Except, due to being so risk averse, they never offer government contracts to any company that isn’t a giant corporate. So the smaller private companies can’t grow. So they can’t be ‘unicorns’ because they can’t get the attention of larger companies in the private sector.

But they need to keep up the illusion that they care about these smaller businesses, so use a mixture of government quangos that get SMEs to compete for £25K grants.

[ancientstone]

Do you hate ai? Are you a British citizen or UK resident? Then here's a nice petition for you!

Regulate Generative AI Imagery

Description: We think Generative AI for commercial use like advertising must be banned and companies must disclose using AI and list the prompts used. We think it must be made illegal to access AI "nudify" apps and websites, and AI generated imagery must require a watermark disclosing that it is AI generated.

Deadline: 13th July 2025

At 10,000 signatures, government will respond to this petition

At 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament.

[isaacsapphire]

I see these are from London. Has the British working class gotten racist and inclined to attack women in just the last forty years or were these always a bit nonsensical?

Class War, 1983.

[sweetm0uringlamb]

i wish copycat killers were as big of a problem as Fox News thinks they are

[roseredsnow]

Someone else probably has said it here but haven't seen it so hoping it'll help me find more to reblog.

It is not only the US that needs to be wary of their goverment and be making plans for how to build community and help others.

As someone in the UK I'm incredibly relieved our election was before theirs cause I think it could've went a very different way if we were after.

Everyone, everywhere now needs to start thinking about what they can do.

[trendingtopicofeurope]

Logic wants to die now! what do you think?

[mossiethe3rd]

we are so close to halfway and still have 5 months to go!

If you are a British/UK citizen, there is currently a petition running (with only 125 signatures) that ends in June 2025. The petition calls for the government to make it so that you do not need a diagnosis of gender dysphoria to change your gender.

If you are a British/UK citizen, and would like to sign:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159

If you're not a British/ UK citizen it'd be much appreciated if you could share this post !! :)

[the-night-night-owl]

ABORTION IN THE UK IS A CRIME AND THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO HIDE IT.

It's currently a criminal offence under an 1862 law. And there's a petition going on right now to get rid of that law, by the way:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700014

And people have been arrested and charged under it recently, as shown by this government document:

https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/53621/documents/4252

But the government responded to the petition by saying

Which implies that it's just a mistake, right? But if you click the "read response I full", you learn that it is a crime, and the government has "no plans to make changes to this act"

PLEASE SHARE, AND SIGN IF YOU ARE A UK CITIZEN. DON'T LET THE GOVERNMENT HIDE THIS FROM US

[rhube]

Hey, this would make a huge difference - to helping disabled people rejoin society, and to stopping you all getting as sick as me.

You don't want this. You really don't. Keeping up to date with boosters costs about £100 at least twice a year. It's soul-destroying that we have to pay.

[northern-punk-lad]

JKR is once again attacking a woman of colour

[cosm1cmicr0wave]

Genuinely disturbing to see people in the comments talking about ““liberating”” my country (the uk) like we didn’t have a free and democratic general election with a new party in government last year.

We’re not oppressed. We don’t need to be ““liberated”” from our elected government. We don’t belong with you. We don’t want to join you.

Yeah sure the government has made a few mistakes, as does every government. We’re all people, even our politicians.

Keep your filthy fucking hands out of my country’s politics.

Aka fuck off.

Regards, one pissed off Brit

[michaelgovehateblog]

Nigel Farage got milkshaked again, what a time to be alive

[ceevee5]

[ayeforscotland]

If you ever needed proof that the new hate crimes laws are a good thing lmao

[jayeltontoro]

They 'beta tested' on the UK to push Brexit over the line (with a minority- but close enough for the clowncar that is the UK to choose to crash)

Fuck those scumbags

Meta/Facebook worked with Cambridge Analytica and Russia to micro-target and infleunce 2016 election. No one did shit about it.