Muirium wrote: This is Britain, dear chap, we don't have such dreadfully gauche nonsense as free speech over here.
http://super-injunction.blogspot.co.uk/
I'm not even kidding. Super injunctions gag the press. The official secrets act gags whistleblowers. And London has some of the spookiest spooks in the world. This state's a lot more Putin than we like to think.
I think also that in certain parts of London peaceful protests are illegal, i remember seeing a story where there was some guy protesting and he was fine as he started his protest before the law came into effect but anyone who wants to start a march or a sit in or whatever cannot do this because they will be remove / arrested by the police. Scary stuff but again i don't remember where the info came from so take it with a grain of salt.
I don't agree with state control of the media but i do think there should be personal protections so that someones private life cannot be splattered all over the front of the red tops, but its a tricky balance to reach.
The extent to which the British government wants to censor the internet is also terrifying, now sure blocks at the moment are only for copyright infringement and they are not legally binding ( for example get a leased line and poof no block at all) but there is president for blocking all manner of things such as social media in the event of civil unrest and things like political decent , blasphemy promoting dissolution of the monarchy and so on, this is something you expect to hear from saudi or iran not from the united kingdom. This is one of my biggest fears if we leave the EU , the EU at least in some part is holding the british governments leash on this but if that was to go then the gloves are off.
Further outside the UK government being a bunch of scary fuckers .
The organisation i work for would also not exist in its current form without EU finding , local council funding has been cut by about 50% this year with a possibility of it going completely in the following year , and arts council England also has less money than it did a few years ago so there is less of that to go around , that EU money is keeping us in the black.
Things like employment laws , personal rights and freedoms , protection for the poor and sick and so on would be severally reduced if we where to leave the EU, the conservatives would love to get rid of the right to strike , protection from long working hours and protection for employees from unfair dismissal and so on, just look at the dispute between doctors and the government at the moment.
The brexit supporters claim we give about 18billion to the EU but with rebates and what we get back with EU funding for things like farmers subsidies and so on its closer to 9 billion, not to mention EU funding for new building , regeneration and arts projects. Hell its a bloody bargin, don't listen to borris the buffoon when he tells you we can now spend it where we want to , the fuckers will keep it in the coffers for no reason whatsoever.
Honestly i see no good reason to leave the EU , only bad if we go.
The main issue i have is that all the press on both sides has been bashing the other side , no firm numbers .
The people who want to leave have in my view and inflated view of the power and influence the UK has ( they must still think the sun never sets or something) or have a vested interest in reducing regulation and protections for normal folk so they can make even more insane sums of money by ripping people off and fucking them over.
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And i forgot the most important thing! Buying a keyboard form the EU will be more expensive as you will have to pay import duty on it ! Fuckers ! Its bad enough now buying from the US.
