Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers?

ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Military and intelligence services are bothered by China. The government not so much. The conservatives are happy to sell our nuclear and communication infrastructure to China. It was the backlash in the media that made them change course.

The British government agreed to allow China to work on nuclear power stations in the UK, it was the intelligence service that made them reduce Chinas access to its design and operation.

This is the same government that stopped the EU from restricting cheap Chinese steel into the EU (prior to Brexit). Recently the UK closed one of its major steel manufacturers. We can only recycle steel in the UK now.

Steels needed for boats and tanks. Especially if a land war in Europe broke out, or a naval war in the Pacific.

The conservatives are weak on all advertising. The shear amount of gambling adverts in the UK are abysmal. As well as direct marketing to children for high strength vapes. We nearly got rid of nicotine addiction in young people, it’s was falling significantly prior to vapes being allowed to advertise to children. They don’t care, they’ll sell anything to the highest bidder.

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