Do the people of the UK actually want this ban

Probably quite a lot do, yeah. Most people are astoundingly ignorant about technical things and neither no nor care about the broader consequences. So you have to put in your ID to use arsebook. So what? It's hardly any inconvenience and anyway we've got to do something. And this is something. So we've got to do it.

I love that you think Starmer has somehow managed to keep all of that quite despite his own party having knives out for him right now.

Many people pushing for it, and I suspect many MPs do genuinely want to help children. Just because the outcome is bad doesn't mean there's a simplistic conspiracy behind it.

Britain has bad libel laws but mate your argument is just stupid.

Drinkypoo shags sheep.

I can't prove it but it's TRUE. And you can't defend yourself because it's TRUE.

This also explains nicely how the BBC wound up handing so many kids over to a nonce for so many years.

You have no fucking clue about anything relating to the UK or the Jimmy Saville scandal. Your somewhat different libel laws didn't stop just so many people from protecting Epstein either. Heck you have one of Epstein's chums as president. Everyone knows. No one apparently cares. Libel laws ain't got nothing to do with it.

You don't think they care?

No, they don't. Trump is Jesus to them. Anything he says is the right and true gospel and he can do no wrong. Seriously if someone is still supporting Trump they are so far down the rabbit hole that another case of lying and grift isn't going to make a dent.

If you look at the opinion polls, the shift to more negative ratings has been from blockheads who were somehow on the fence before and now don't like high gas prices. The number of people who think he's doing a good job has barely shifted.

THEY. DON'T. CARE.

Your post is... historically inaccurate in an interesting variety of ways.

Indeed. One can have legitimate concerns with damp in the house, but the solution to shitty tradies doing a bad job isn't to set fire to the house (while yelling racist epithets).

No only do you still hold a torch for the EM drive perpetual motion machine scam, and utterly fail to do even the most basic of middle high school physics calculations, it seems you have a real problem with geography as well, never mind basic reasoning.

Do you deny saying this:

[...]all people that enter the future EU where "the British Islands" might be a part again[...]

Do you not understand how nonsensical that is? The ROI is part of the British Isles and is still part of the EU.

The British Isles is NOT the UK. Learn some fucking geography before you start trying to double down on claims about it.

What is your point?

It's nonsensical to talk of the British Isles (or Islands as you incorrectly write) "being part again", because the British Isles aren't one country and part of them is still in the EU.

I fail to see it.

I'd expect nothing less from you.

I get it, but I still think it's crazy.

Kinda... but having experienced s fraction of it, I know from personal experience that it's not quite that easy:

There are a million things to "do" that improve humanity and don't involve money. If I didn't have to work for a living, I could dedicate my life to picking up all the trash from near where I live. I could plant trees, or learn a language.

Being spoiled for choice makes it harder for many people. There are a million things you can do, you only have time to do an infinitesimal number of them, many (like pure leisure) may lack a sense of purpose or fulfillment etc.

It's not just a disease of billionaires, it's just more stark with them somehow. It's not that unusual for people who hit retirement to just stop and watch TV all day until they die. Even with meager resources there's a million things you can do. A little litter picking as you say, community volunteering, and so on.

If billionaires all retired to become farmers, I don't think that would be a bad thing.

OK not a billionaire, but have you seen Clarkson's Farm? His solution to the farming crisis is to be rich and famous to pull in punters for adjacent services. Real scalable that is...

We took more than one :(

I knew it was bad, I can see the numbers etc etc, but it got brought home to me in a very visceral way recently, being at a startup. It's based in London.

We got a customer in Ireland. Firstly supply chains are just shit now. It can take as long to import stuff from Germany as China, whereas this used to be friction free next day stuff. Sure there are global shocks, but cutting ourselves out of a fucking massive market has exacerbated our problems a lot. Many fewer local suppliers. Friction on import etc etc. It's not that we can't get stuff but everything moves much slower now.

And then there's the export! Basically it's complicated to sell goods to the EU now. It takes a ton of work and time and also money to sort out the paperwork even if there's no duties. And this is not productive time. This just sucks productivity away. No wonder we have a productivity crisis here.

Fortunately for now the UK still respects CE for now, so I can ignore UKCA certification and concentrate on the bigger market.

But it's just friction, friction, friction all the way down. We went into Brexit wit national productivity problems and now we have loads more paper shuffling jobs. that has not helped.

UK has been in decline, with overpopulation and underinvestment and corruption since the 1950s.
We were told that joining the EU would save us,

Well, being in the EU did put the decline on hold while we were a member. But fortunately we left, so the pattern from the 1950s onwards can continue apace. wouldn't want to beak the pattern.

All what violence?

There's been a few riots, but it's not like the UK has a monopoly on those around Europe. And also, some of them were in Belfast. You do know Northern Ireland can reunify with Ireland at any time at which point it becomes part of the EU? You know that, right?

By all means be angry about the aggressive stupidity on display from the UK (I am and I live here), but that's no excuse to be based in a false reality.

And as a border country, I assume the Margrave of "the British Islands", will do his duty and do border controls to all people that enter the future EU where "the British Islands" might be a part again: just as he is doing right now!

The British Isles includes the Republic of Ireland among its countries which is as of last week (it looked that way at the ferry port anyway) still a member of the EU.

The allegedly left wing biased BBC were Farage's biggest booster for about a decade.

Yes the British public may now be in favour of rejoining but it's only because they're still deluding themselves into thinking the European Union will let them rejoin on the same terms they left on, i.e. with exemptions from giving up the Pound and adopting the Euro or joining the passport-free Schengen Area.

Heh. Don't threaten me with a good time!