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Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

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361 points gloxkiqcza | 3 comments | 24 Aug 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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hungmung ◴[24 Aug 25 17:34 UTC] No.45006064[source]▶
More made up problems for a fundamentally inept government to solve because fixing real problems like a broken healthcare system is hard and not a guaranteed political win.

Thanks Starmer, you're a worthless turd and no different than your predecessor.

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1. pessimizer ◴[24 Aug 25 21:16 UTC] No.45007859[source]▶
I still can't believe the UK got suckered into the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act. All it took was like two years of making you vote every three months and you gave up your democracy.

You're not like the US. The US turns over a good portion of Congress every two years, and re-elects what is basically a active King every four. All you did was make sure that no one in government has to think about the public for a second, while they do what their backers and buddies ask, then retire in five years.

There's no way out of it. Starmer should try to get down to an <10% approval rating just to make the history books.

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2. frereubu ◴[24 Aug 25 21:34 UTC] No.45008013[source]▶
I can't quite tell whether you know this from the way you wrote your comment, but the Fixed-Term Parliaments act was repealed in 2022: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-term_Parliaments_Act_201...
3. Nursie ◴[25 Aug 25 04:39 UTC] No.45010260[source]▶
The fixed term act, as the other poster pointed out, was repealed in 2022

It was also a hilarious failure given that during the 11 short years it was active there were two two-year parliaments. It also didn't stop PMs being deposed from within, during that same period there were 5 different prime ministers.

So I think your read on it is a little exaggerated there.