• mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    This speaks to the incredibly short sighted and, let’s be honest, incompetence of the civil service and elected governments over a number of years.

    Had they been more forceful in expanding the scope of GDS when it started instead of watering it down, the UK government (a huge buyer of US IT) by now would have had a better bargaining chip against this extortion from the Trump administration plus our own infrastructure to rely on. Or had the government created the conditions and championed alternative digital networks (yes they exist look at what we’re using right now) they would also be in a better position.

    Instead we’re in a race to how far we can goatse ourselves for Musk and Trump.

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      3 days ago

      This isn’t incompetence. Like every 21st century major “Labor” party, the UK’s is a neoliberal corporate whore, and Starmer is at the top.

      Remember Brexit? The UK is much closer to fascism, and is more of a plutocracy, than the majority of the EU.

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        2 days ago

        The secret to a good shit post is to spell the actual party you’re trying to malign correctly 😊. Not simply fill your reply with all the buzzwords you can think of.

        Neoliberalismo, corporations, fascismo, racista… That’s numberwang!