It should go without saying that unelected people heavily involved in the writing of legislation, whether that is peers in the House of Lords, or corporate lobbyists in Brussels, fatally undermines the credibility of those institutions.
This situation is nothing new to Britain. What is maybe ‘new’, after nearly fifty years of neo-liberal economic and political policy, is a former working class of increasingly impoverished people primed to accept a far-right alternative that is the only option that has been presented to them: an alternative given airtime for years in spite of the fact that that party had not even one MP elected to parliament. This alternative is not going to be any better for those former working class people, which suits the wealthy and powerful who presented Nigel Farage as the alternative.
In the case of the US in 2016, you got Trump, or a continuation of the economics/politics that made Trump inevitable. Same here in Europe, playing out in its own way.
This appears to be the inevitable result of nearly fifty years of neo-liberal economic and political policy.
At the top of this post I wrote ‘it should go without saying’ because the reality is that we are so far from anything approaching idealism that the idea that we should worry about people buying peerages and writing laws that suit their mates, seems quaint.
Hi all, Hope this is ok for me to post here, apologies if not. I’m in the U.S. and recently joined Lemmy looking for a place to have uncensored discussions about U.S. and global issues.
I am curious to hear how U.K.ers feel about this proposed law. It seems like an attempt to create some additional checks and balances and avoid unchecked power by the Prime Minister.
Watching executive power currently being used as a weapon to destroy any chance of public opinion pumping the breaks on insane policy makes this seem like a good idea, but I also know legal process and politics are very different in the U.K., so I would love to hear U.K. thoughts and opinions about this. If there is a better place for me to post this, I will delete it and move it there.
The reason this article caught my attention, is the mention of the former special adviser to David Davis, and his opposition to the bill.
I’ll be honest, before last month, I didn’t know who David Davis was, but have taken an interest in his connection to U.S. politics and the Trump administration.
Davis is the father-in-law of Michael Kratsios, Trump’s Science Advisor nominee and Director of Office of Science and Technology Policy. Kratsios is also a former employee of Peter Theil, and is focused on AI policy.
Given the UK-US refusal to join other countries signing an AI declaration, (which included agreeing to join other countries in defending against a cyber attack by another nation like oh idk…Russia), I find the connection between Davis and Kratsios very suspicious. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8edn0n58gwo
I also know that Musk is planning on opening an xAI branch in the UK, and I have been screaming into the void for months trying to warn people in the U.S. about his xAI data centers. I’m not sure how much news coverage this has received in the U.K., but there’s been hardly any focused coverage of all of the shady things surrounding xAI in the U.S.
I hope voters in the U.K. are aware of all of these things, if only for the sake of staying informed. Let me know if you would like to discuss any of this stuff, or know of a community that would be better to start a discussion about this.
Thanks!