Comment on Google facing £5 billion UK lawsuit
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
So I guess we’re gonna have a far right government next election then when this is inevitably dragged out until the rich can buy the election by drumming up enough hate to make the average Brit spit in their tea if they thought it’d make immigrants/transes/youth sad.
I’m sorry to soapbox about politics in a tech thread, but this charade of “law and order” and endless debate about the actual merits of the actual lawsuit under the actual law are so tiresome when these corpos just bypass this shit anyway.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
If Labour are smart, they’ll opt to abolish FPTP before the next election. This 40% majority bullshit is enough.
Rogue@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Labour aren’t smart though. They believe FPTP gives them an advantage and thus we’re destined to misery under the conservatives as soon as the party gathers together the resources to bribe Farage into disbanding reform
tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Theyre gonna have to outbid Musk…
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
That’ll just give more seats to reform.
Rogue@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
That’s honestly fine. Everybody deserves fair representation.
If we’d had PR a decade ago and the disenfranchised had had a voice in parliament then perhaps we never would have been dragged out of the EU.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
they’re going to get them anyway, look how close the AfD came in the last election in Germany.
At least with coalition powers, the other parties (Greens, Lib Dems, Tories…, MRL) can make a coalition with Labour and ignore the Reform.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
You don’t need PR for that necessarily but yeah I see your point.