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It looks like the Labour party is once again preparing to shoot itself in the foot, seemingly because the current Prime Minister is boring.
It's true that Kier Starmer lacks the charisma of... well... cold rice pudding, but after the clown car politics of the previous 14 years of Tory governments, I'll take boring and beige over braying and backbiting.
It’s been a few days since the Brexit vote dropped a metric (damn you, EU bureaucrats, with your pesky decimal systems) shit-ton of depression and uncertainty on the UK, European, and global economies, and after a few more pressing matters were attended to I have now had time to think about it in a bit more detail.
So, the governments of the USA and UK have managed to acquire unwarranted access to pretty much any and all digital communications, and now they can crack encryption?
Scary stuff - apparently the price of freedom was freedom itself.
Or was it?
What should we make of last nights Question Time appearance by Nick Griffin, head of the controversial BNP?
His appearance on that stage marked a watershed in modern british politics, with mainstream politicians sharing a platform with a man that many consider to be very dangerous indeed, representing as he does an organisation with historic overtones of overt racism, violence, and civil discord.