EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

According to this Mirror article, he's said this before so it seems to be A Thing for him: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/theres-big-new-row-over-11590151

I'll be fucked if I know what he's on about, though. Maybe when he says "people have an outdated view of borders" he doesn't mean people in the sense that you or I are people?

Maybe when he says "people have an outdated view of borders"

Or maybe he really means himself? Like maybe some other people his age, he really doesn't have a clue how many things actually function once technology gets involved...

ERG meetings are conducted in treacle naked except for Tricorns and ladles..?!

Or what does not function...people seem to think computers are some sort of magic you can throw at anything.

They won't fix business process issues, process issues and the complete ineptness of government IT outsourcing. See the lel debacle with the settled status app not working on one major phone OS :)

JRM protests

https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1039825276509855747

Poor kids, look at those clothes...
Quite weird that they all just stayed outside sucking it up, why not protect your children and get them to go inside?

Paterson was famously outwitted by badgers hiding in the treacle.

Fixed.

Bloody Dutch, coming over here, winning our bookshops:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/11/customer-wins-bookends-bookshop-raffle-cardigan-west-wales

I can't really imagine that merely using a title of an article in a link would require a licence, so I'd happily believe that's nonsense, but how do people see the rest of this law? Is it likely to have been one of the drivers of 'Brexit'?

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/sep/12/eu-copyright-law-may-force-tech-giants-to-pay-billions-to-publishers-facebook-google

It's utter nonsense.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180912/09265740626/eu-gives-up-open-web-experiment-decides-it-will-be-licensed-web-going-forward.shtml

This was done in Spain and what happened was Google killed all their referral traffic - the papers lost more money. Madness.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150725/14510131761/study-spains-google-tax-news-shows-how-much-damage-it-has-done.shtml

Aha. So if I post a short snippet of a news article on here, do I cause problems for LFGSS? Will this have a big impact on us, @Velocio?

#breaxitwillsaveus

It is almost as if Google has too much power... ;)

But classic case of unintended consequences going on in Spain then.

Google is just a search engine. There are others. The papers buried their heads in the sand for 20 years. Their strategy is to pay politicians to save them? Fuck 'em. It's not the strongest that survive, it's the most able to adapt and the papers have not proven themselves to be adaptable.

Paterson was famously outwitted by badgers hiding in the treacle.

Fixed.

The badgers I have discussed cycling with routinely extol the virtues of a freewheel.

I’d happily pay one of your badgers to shit in JRM’s tricorn after a night out on the treacle.

The broadly unbiddable badgers of the Domesday Book village of Ruislip know better than to venture to JRM's Somerset manor. There be culling!

The Badgermeister himself on Newsnight. No sign of the treacle pot, yet.

I know, they're all on bad gears.

Astonishing that a fomer Northern Ireland minister, (2 years), could have learnt so little about the nature of trade on the island of Ireland.

Pater didn't teach son much.

"just a search engine" hmmmm I have to disagree there. Android phones, Youtube, Ad Space, looking to offer a new "approved" search Engine for China with built-in censorship, they have their fingers in a lot of pies and laws.

That doesn't excuse the papers looking the other way or the EU making bad law of course. But if one newspaper or TV channel cannot completely destroy another one by withholding services.

We have to see how this new law pans out, I don't quite believe the "break the internet" hype but it may accidentally screw things up rather than make them better.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-collection-violated-human-rights-strasbourg-court-rules

We really need to get that pesky EHCR off our backs. Next they're going to say you can't whip peasants.

AFAIK I know the UK won't leave the EHCR?

Not that leaving the EU human rights framework is good btw, because now laws can be applied by UK courts, there is a decent minimum standard and you don't have to spend mega £££ to defend your rights.

AFAIK I know the UK won't leave the EHCR?

I don't think that any promises on that front are worth the puff of hot air that accompanies them.

Unless there are Brexit deals that are contingent on keeping the ECHR, my guess is that as soon as the ECourtHR rules against whichever government is then in power, the HRA will soon have an amendment in it* that says "We will subscribe to the ECHR. Except when it pleases us not to."

* No doubt through a Brexity statutory instrument that requires no Parliamentary oversight. Because fuck sovereignty.

the HRA will soon have an amendment in it* that says "We will subscribe to the ECHR. Except when it pleases us not to.

The government would still be bound by the European Convention on Human Rights though, being a signatory to it. OK, they could just ignore it, but that puts you in some pretty unpleasant company.