So now every site has cringe popups that nobody reads or understands, thanks regulators!!

It's not the law that mandates the awful UI of those popups... it's Google. I'm an adwords publisher, on my blog and a couple of (formerly!) popular web-apps. My sites were all compliant with the legislation, but not with Google's policy for adwords publishers. Their algorithm sent me an e-mail threatening to cut off my income unless I implemented one of their "approved" cookie scripts. As any fool knows, it's simply not possible to contact a real human at Google, so I was forced to do as they wished. So now all my sites have pointless, annoying cookie popups.

Everyone hates those popups, but don't blame the legislation - blame Google for forcing the whole Internet into malicious compliance.

LOL. They list Digg as a Reddit alternative.

Someone had a giggle when they wrote that.

I certainly want a MicroSD slot and a headphone jack on any phone I buy. These are features I use. A lot.

Just wait. Some asshole Google employee will read his blog, and unapprove him.

What the actual fuck?

I suppose when you are down in a dank shitty hole of your own making, normal sunlight and open ground must seem like an ivory tower.

Would you like me to let down a rope ladder for you?

Conservative members chose Liz Truss as leader too. It's really not a good look.

The real problem for the Conservatives is just how far their membership has diverged from the mainstream of British society. Post Brexit entryism from UKIP supporters has left the Conservative Party in real trouble.

The country needs more people. Locals are not having enough babies to cover that, and the world is full of fantastic other people who want to come here, and help make the place great. The only reason to turn them away is a toxic mix of short-sightedness and racism.

Nobody said that racism was going to be cheap.

I literally think that Corbyn would struggle to organise a piss-up in a brewery.

We really need electoral reform. Whilst I'm happy for the Labour Party, it really isn't healthy for them to get 500 seats with 47% of the vote, especially when they are simply benefitting from the "anything but Tory" votes, rather than having an overwhelmingly popular programme of their own.

If Starmer got in with a massive majority like this, then it's really setting the country up for a massive crisis a few years down then line, when everyone gets disillusioned with Labour, and has literally no safe place to move their vote... It would present a dangerous opportunity for fringe crazies to play the populist card, and send us all straight to Hell.

PR would give fair influence to sensible centrist voices which are currently being stifled.

This makes me angry.

Fortunately for them, my adblocker isn't on YouTube. It runs on my browser!

MY browser.

A timely reminder to never accept a caution (unless you are damn sure you would also plead guilty in court - because that's essentially what you're doing).

Your Mum's journey seems quite positive, overall. Is she now in favour of re-joining? If not, then she still has a long way to go.

Oh my goodness. I just read her Wikipedia article, and she appears to be the worst sort of racist, low-life chancer, somehow elevated to the House of Lords.

The two finest innovations of postwar British planning were green belts and urban conservation areas.

Lol. There's no hope for rational discourse, if this is the starting point of your opponent.

Green belts (and restrictive planning policy more generally) have been a disaster for the country. They are directly responsible for our crushing housing costs, poor housing quality, terrible urban design, and the stranglehold over our built environment that is held by a handful of gigantic, pointless building companies.

https://txtify.it/https://www.economist.com/britain/2017/02/11/britains-delusions-about-the-green-belt-cause-untold-misery

Fascists do wind themselves up over the weirdest things.

We urgently need proportional representation.

This has to be bad news. Given the UKIP entryism into local parties, this will likely further embed the Conservatives' shift away from the centre, towards the far-right.

We need a centre-right party in UK politics. The longer the far right are able to wear the skin of the old Conservative party, the more unwarranted influence they will have over the direction of the country.