What happens today ?
On Thursday, June 8th, the U.K. will go have to elect its ‘new’ prime minister, just two years after the last one and the failure, by Cameron, to win the referendum last year. (Brexit sounds familiar ? )
Today is important because much of the future, for Britons – but not only - , will be at stake. In particular, you have to decide between two old, idealess and tremendously boring people: Jeremy Corbin (commie) and Theresa May (I don’t understand how the internet works, baby!)
Corbyn has led a really good (from his perspective at least) campaign, focusing on his ‘strong’ points, mainly more taxes, full employment (whatever this means), environment, no more messes abroad; May , au contraire, despite thinking to be the new Margie has led one of the worst in modern British politics history, collapsing from double-digit lead to a small gap of 5 points or so.
Source: The Mirror
Apart from the political differences, what might be really interesting for STEEMIT users is that May ,recently, talked about an ‘Internet Law’ that would push for more control over the internet and its users, not understanding neither the web nor how these terrorist attacks happen.
This is the second 1984-style law, just after the one that allowed ISPs getting their hands dirty for the government to collect users’ browsing history.
According to the May:
We will introduce a sanctions regime to ensure compliance, giving regulators the ability to fine or prosecute those companies that fail in their legal duties, and to order the removal of content where it clearly breaches UK law.
What does this mean? Well, in one word, control. Basically it’s a seller ‘ Foot-in-the-door’ technique, where you put some small thing under the nose and then you move up the ladder, very common in politics. (See: Wikipedia)
Would this fix the ‘terrorism’ problem? Of course not. This would hit common people doing common things; the great majority of these attacks develop because of conditions outside the Internet, de facto making this law totally worthless.
So far I have not wrote about the other two parties somewhat relevant in the elections: UKIP and Liberal Democrats. The first one despite pushing for Brexit, has to recover the loss of Farage - who decided to quit politics and are basically struggling to reach the 5% share. Their points are always the same, immigrants, sovereignty, independence,
The others, after the failure of the last elections, has decided to rewrite everything from scratch: their website is quite explanatory.
Maybe after reading this you might think: why would I vote ?
That's a good question, I will let you decide.