https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47313657
'Hoda Muthana: Trump says IS woman barred from US return'
Similar case occurring in the States now.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47313657
'Hoda Muthana: Trump says IS woman barred from US return'
Similar case occurring in the States now.
This tickled me, and got me thinking - are there any recent examples of the government abusing its power (or attempting to) or are those days in the past thanks to Twitter?
I thought of the Gina Miller court case where the government wanted to exercise article 50 without parliament's approval, and the government paying £1bn of taxpayer money to the DUP to get enough seats to 'win' the election. The ferry contract to a company with no ferries seems to have a few question marks over it. Any other recent ones?
The government taking the referendum as minding despite one of its biggest backers being illegally funded. Deporting windrush citizens then arresting those who protested against it on terrorist offences. Theresa May being best pals with Paul Darce and Aaron Banks and refusing to investigate LeaveEU because of it.
If only Twitter was around during the Blair years there’s no way the Iraq was would have happened and we wouldn’t even have Isis!
We wouldn't have heard of a citizen taking the government to the supreme court and winning or how the government achieved their majority after a general election?
Give over.
Social media and the rise of independent investigatiive journalists have done a lot for getting stories out there, yes - but there's no way we're at full transparency.
Trump won the election due to Russian interference, the whole of Twitter know about it but it’s changed nothing. How can you say the government can’t get away with stuff like this any more because of social media?
The Key words in my post are finding it easy, and i stand by that, we are all far to connected for that, so when the public find out, questions are asked, the ferry company fiasco was mentioned, questions were asked and the government back-tracked on it ( was it last week ? ? ? ) a prime example of not finding it easy
So the government doesn't find it easy to abuse power now because questions are asked on social media and keeps them in check.
Yet in this thread you are criticising people for doing exactly that
"Oh the old, It went on in the past, so it will happen in the future school of thought
I feel safe in the knowledge that Your good self and Lardy wouldnt just stand by and let the Government abuse its power, I can sleep safe in that knowledge
Or we can always look at everything in life with suspicion and mistrust, what a joyful life that must be "
The internet and social media are very much a double edged sword in this respect.
The collapse of newspaper sales has meant that traditional media employ a fraction of the number of journalists that they used to, and those that remain typically just repurpose press releases into stories as it is much quicker than going and investigating anything.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47310206
New article seems to point to automatic citizenship till age of 21...
Why are people happy to have her sent to Bangladesh? Do they think they deserve a “terrorist” more than the U.K.? Or do people just not care as long as we are rid of her?
It's her parents I feel sorry for.
Their daughter as a child is groomed/brainwashed into running away to a war zone and shacking up with a terrorist paedo.
Finally a glimmer of hope for them when she says she wants to come home to face the music, only for the UK to say, sorry you aren't British any more, you can be someone else's problem.
Is that really who we are as a nation? Does it make you proud?