don’t forget climate change

If only there was some way the government could have predicted this would happen and maybe not rushed a poorly thought out law in the first place!

maybe then they would not have:

• forced big tech companies to withdraw service to the uk
• forced uk-based small forums and message boards to close
• given free vpn providers tons more data to sell
• reduced the overall cyber resilience of the country by forcing people to choose between giving photos of their passports to some weird online service or signing up for a free vpn which sells their data, may inject their own unregulated adverts etc
• reduced uk based advertising effectiveness and thus investment and marketing spend
• pissed everyone off while doing it, scoring yet another win for the far right

absolute roasters the lot of them

sensibly managing the economy and balancing the need to achieve reduced emissions with the need to maintain a functional economy is not capitulating, and indeed being seen to carefully maintain that balance might be key to election victory in four years time.

cool. and watch the entire right wing go mad over “net zero wokery” and “stealth taxes choking our economy to death.” then watch reform win with a landslide and bulldoze the entire net zero agenda and see where we end up.