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Originally Posted by OldBear
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WTG, Phorm; only a ******* company passes the buck back to one of its own partners. 
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It buys them a bit of time to have a group hug and come up with a bit of spin.
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Originally Posted by labougie
My point is that there is sod-all you can do. What is about to be done to you has already been planned and agreed by so-called democratic governments in agreement with private corporations and the shift has been from the original perspective - in which we, the punters, used to elect governments to be trusted to handle the larger affairs we couldn't be fagged with or didn't know enough about, to a situation in which the government (in happy partnership with 'Private Enterprise') regards us as cannon fodder, to be used and manipulated as it sees fit. C'est ca. How do you propose we go back? Even if we could conceivably get a win out of this one, it still won't stop the way things are headed.
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I think i'm probably broadly in agreement with you. We no longer elect the government we want, we get rid of governments we have had enough of. Roughly every 15 years or so. During the first 10 of those 15 years they get away with murder.
We probably can't change the situation. One generation at least has grown up with an 'edutainment' rather than an education and most of them seem to think they went to school with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I don't like the situation, but I do think this is one we
can win. I think our MP's are largely a waste of space, but we may get something out of Europe. Maybe it will ultimately depend upon the Congress in the US. God help the 'Phormed' BT subscriber who visits a US web site if
they decide it's illegal. A free night flight and an orange boiler-suit for them.
Sadly, the reason I think we can win it is because we can embarress a shaky government that is coming up to it's natural (15 year) lifespan and they are worried about what Europe and the US might do. Not forgetting a whole wodge of useless MP's who will start to worry about their seats.
But if the Yanks decide it's super we'll get it anyway.
Just my thoughts as someone who has never written to his MP or logged into a forum until I heard of Phorm. I always vote though.