Sunak ‘not sharing’ Covid texts ‘a disgrace direct from Boris playbook’

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• Blake@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t understand how anyone can witness this and not realise that the issue we have is a systemic issue, rather than an issue specifically with the PM or even with the Tory party.

  Politicians are literally giving the middle finger to a public inquiry with complete impunity. If they can get away with this, then what force can hold them accountable? The voters? They lie about their policies and positions, get voted in, then do whatever they want for years. The media, completely controlled by the wealthy ruling elite, makes it impossible for any politician who would be a threat to their interests to get elected by running constant smear campaigns and puff pieces.

  Electoral politics is at a dead end. The best it can accomplish is avoiding the worst possible outcomes. For a truly better world, we need massive changes which happen outside the system.

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  • Syldon@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hence why we should be letting as many know about this sort of stuff as possible.

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  • TinyPizza@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We need Digital Direct Democracy and a replacement of representative government with a delegate system.

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    • Blake@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem is that any suggestions like this are impossible to achieve without a broader solution to the real problem, which is the fact that our entire society is basically held hostage by wealthy elites. Before we can solve the problems which they have caused, we need to get rid of them, and the source of their power, first. Otherwise, they will block any progress.

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• jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Funny how they want to mass surveil all our messages, but don’t want to share their own.

  They are happy for massive multinational national companies to take every bit of our privacy, but want some themselves.

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• davepleasebehave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  he promised transparency. the best he can offer is occasional translucency.

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  • Syldon@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is all a case of mind over matter. They don’t mind that we don’t matter.

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• Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thankfully Sunak has an expiration date.

  Take out the trash, UK.

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  • Syldon@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is like being a kid again and waiting for Christmas. It is taking way too long.

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    • ReCursing@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And it's over all a bit disappointing but you can be excited about the new toys for a little while at least

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