James105

It didn't happen in 2016. It didn't happen in 2023. It did happen under Labour in 2025. Labour could have simply not demanded this from Apple and Apple would have kept things as they are just like the rest of the world that are allowed to protect their data including passwords with the highest possible security. Apple are not just getting around to enacting a request from 2016 are they? Stop blaming previous governments for the actions of this moronic government. Either they are too weak and incompetent to do anything themselves which means their idiotic supporters hunt down previous government requests/ideas that came to nothing, or they are the authoritarian clowns they appear to be. Which is it?

So why has it happened today under these authoritarian morons? They demanded this. They are in government. They could have done nothing. Blaming something that happened today on something that occurred in 2016 is ridiculous, even for you.

I can imagine they did. Binge watching netflix probably doesn't count as an achievement. If they are caught out by this then they deserve to lose their jobs due to plain stupidity. He used exactly this approach at Twitter and culled about 80% of its workforce with no noticeable effect on the platform or service. He was pretty clear a similar approach would be taken for government roles.

Labour are authoritarian morons. Demanding a "back door" by any authoritarian government that wishes to spy on its citizens provides an avenue (worldwide) for hackers to get access to some pretty sensitive data as that is what apple uses to store passwords etc so no surprise they won't do it. Not providing the most secure options only weakens security for UK users and allows those same hackers an easier route to those passwords. The UK is now the only country in the world that, due to its moronic and incompetent government, actively goes out of their way to make its citizens less secure. It's clearly not enough for them that 3rd world cultural enrichers can freely cross the physical "border" with impunity and benefits, now the virtual world door is left open to so UK citizens can be enriched remotely. Lets hope that altruistic hackers target the private and sensitive data of the MPs that demanded this so they can reap the benefits of being virtually enriched and having their private photos and messages publicly aired due to their authoritarian stupidity.

Some people just want to watch the world burn (Labour). For others its greed (Tories).

Not until its too late I think. The state overreach in the UK right now is off the charts dystopian and people are already in jail for mere social media posts. The islamification process has started and continues with the Orwellian mantra of "Diversity is Strength". Our grandkids and their kids will rightly hate us for not acting sooner as their futures are looking very bleak. They will suffer greatly being non muslims in a muslim majority country under Sharia law.

Sure they do and sure he did, but they also recognize a massive money laundering operation when they see one, except unlike normal money laundering operations this one is costing tens of thousands of lives too. The end result of this war is going to be the same if the war ends tomorrow, if it ended 1 week after it started, or ends 10 years from now. Russia will obtain a bit more Russian speaking territory, Ukraine will lose a bit and Putin will carry on being the dictator he is without any sanctions. No leftist fantasy about him being defeated or arrested will come true. This whole exercise has been a massive waste of lives and money, except for the already rich people that have become decidedly richer thanks to the lefts unquenchable thirst to war monger. Ukraine will go back to its corrupt ways, maybe Zelensky will have to give up power following a long overdue election, but I am sure as one of Ukraines newest billionaires he will get over it quite quickly.

Is he now? He is a globalist moron. It is not the UK's fight unless we send British troops there and such an act of aggression will then make it the UKs fight in the eyes of Russia. That said, if those on Twitter with the Ukraine flags in their bios or leftists who support this wish to go to the frontline and put their own lives on the line then I would be okay with that.

They are left wing if they are Labour. There are no "right wing" Labour MPs which is why the talent puddle is so small out of 400+ MPs. Shouty activists with the political nous of a 6th form student do not make good ministers - as we have seen. If they are Corbyn types then they are far-left. Just because you see everyone to the political right of Stalin as "right wing" does not make it so.

If you are wondering what that sound is you can hear, it is the sound of the barrel being scraped to find a replacement for the racist bigot that lost his role as health minister. Found at the bottom of this barrel is one "Ashley Dalton" who thinks women's toilets should be abolished and people can identify as Llamas. https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/10/new-health-minister-ashley-dalton-said-womens-toilets-should-be-removed-and-people-can-identify-as-llamas/

Not good enough. He is in that seat as he is a Labour MP, he would not have been elected as an independent. He is in Labour as he is a nasty racist bigot and that is where he feels at home. Nothing short of criminal charges for hurty words (as is the standard set nowadays under Starmer for this kind of thing) and then a by-election so that the electorate can decide if they want another racist from the Labour party or someone else to represent them would be good enough.

Nasty racist party attracts nasty racist bigots as MPs. Quelle surprise.

What is it that appeals to you most about the racist, anti-semetic and bigoted Labour party? Which one is your favourite quote from this Labour health minister? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14375823/Labour-minister-SACKED-vile-jibe-saying-hopes-pensioners-dont-vote-party-die-election-expose-racist-sexist-messages.html

The Labour party attracts racists and bigots. Nasty, nasty party. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14375823/Labour-minister-SACKED-vile-jibe-saying-hopes-pensioners-dont-vote-party-die-election-expose-racist-sexist-messages.html

Don't forget the state employs millions of people. These are pretty much all Labour voters and will keep Labour on at least 20%. Unless Labour start killing public sector workers first born or something equally horrific to them such as bringing their pensions into line with the private sector then that will probably remain the same.

The Tories are not right wing. They presided over uncontrolled immigration, record taxes, record growth in the size of the state (not the economy), record funding without improvements to the NHS and adopted authoritarian measures rather than personal responsibility during covid and embraced the net zero scam. I am unable to distinguish them from the Labour party.

Leftists standing up for free speech now? Perhaps they should have thought of this when they were cheering on people losing their jobs or even jailed for "words". I feel they were warned enough times about winds changing etc.

So what? They are still people and are included in one of the 2 genders and they may be same sex attracted or otherwise so are included in gay/straight too. Anyway, I have yet to hear what rights Trans people have actually lost other than the right to bully women at sport, expose themselves and perve in women's changing rooms. What exactly has changed for trans people other than that? Men can still wear dresses, put on lipstick and pretend to be women without getting arrested as far as I know, even in Trump's America.

Being racist is already against the law, unless of course the racism is directed at white people which is not under discussion here. Is it illegal to burn books, any books? I don't agree with the premise of book burning at all but I am not actually aware of a law against it otherwise there would be many trans activists in jail right now for burning Harry Potter books. If it is not illegal to burn books then why should one work of fiction be given special treatment over other works of fiction, such as Harry Potter books?

Meaningless. The Tories (as bad as they were), were not completely clueless when it came to negotiations. This is worse than clueless as this isn't just giving them away (which would be bad enough) but to offer £18bn pounds of UK taxpayers money to do so. If you support this kind of negotiation then perhaps you have some land we can negotiate over? I'll let you hand it over to me and you will just have to pay me 10 million bahts to take it off your hands. Let me know if you are interested.

I'm now hearing that the payment offered to give away the Chagos islands has doubled to £18bn of UK taxpayers money. This is what he wants to give to Mauritius now. The only rational explanation at this point is that he is working for China. It cannot just be down to his hatred for the UK and what it (used to) stand for. I don't think there has been a more treasonous snake in charge of the UK government in history.

Not possible unless you have a definition for other religions too and then you might as well call it what it is - blasphemy. Most people have a rational fear of terrorists and of their daughters being raped or butchered by Islamists, so calling it a phobia is nonsensical. No religion should be immune from mockery or criticism. Once you remove the phobia from the word and accept we should not have blasphemy laws we are left with simple racism. We already have laws for that. No new definition required.

Labour are such short term thinkers. If they thought this through to its logical conclusion they would recognize they are being used by Islamists until they have the numbers to gain power for themselves. At that point it's goodbye UK law, hello Sharia law, and a nuclear armed Islamic state within missile range of the USA.

Don't see how Canada wins this particular battle with something like 77% of their exports going to the US. If Americans do not want to pay 25% extra and choose local products instead (where available) then Canada will be in trouble. Also, with half of their country speaking French it is inevitable at least that half will want to surrender. I'm expecting this to be the shortest trade war in trade war history.

Literally only leftists care about this. The UK is not a communist country and it never will be, which means those who work hard, are innovative, creative or simply a genius get to reap the rewards of their hard work which most have made many sacrifices to achieve. Young folks probably don't want to get raped, stabbed or mugged by the influx of cultural enrichers and if the demand for housing could somehow be reduced by not importing the equivalent of the population of Birmingham every single year, then perhaps they might stand a chance of earning better wages and buying a house. I think that is more important to them than just making a few rich people a bit less rich so the government de jour can spaff the money away on virtue signalling projects overseas.