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UK General Election 2017 |OT2| No Government is better than a bad Government

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This thread being in OT does really help with our awareness and it will be a real shame when we all get relegated back to community with wresslegaf and popgaf like a forgotten sideshow
like the Tories are making the UK right now
Don't worry, we'll have another GE soon enough
 
“Why are you so happy with another general election?! The country is in a mess and this just causes more problems!”
“Because it means we get to stay in OT on Gaf which is clearly more important”.

Going back to OT now would feel like being Harry Pottter having to go back to the Dudleys for Christmas after living at Hogwarts.
 
'tis the fate of all communities to one day be put to rest in the wheat fields of the Community fora.

Today is the first day of Brexit negotiations! There's no plan, no authority, and the chief UK negotiator might well be PM in a month.
 
I'd say it's only done with once a Queen's Speech has been passed

Yeah, that seems like a good point. I mean, once the Queen's Speech is passed then parliament's session is officially set and we have a new start mark for talking about what's happening. But I guess this thread has a few days left in it yet.
 
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/divisi...remy_Corbyn&mpc=Islington_North&house=commons

Corbyn was absent for the third reading.

164 Labour MPs voted for the third reading.

Only two Labour MPs rebelled.

Yup, there's things that the Labour MPs fall in-line with the Tories on that gets them being given the side eye from potential voters who may like the party overall. Being "Tory-lite" by Scottish standards is a part of the puzzle as to why they got wiped out in 2015.... Then we go and vote largely for the Tories in 2017 /stillsalty

Based SNP above, and okay Huw, Lib Dems too ;)
 
'tis the fate of all communities to one day be put to rest in the wheat fields of the Community fora.

Today is the first day of Brexit negotiations! There's no plan, no authority, and the chief UK negotiator might well be PM in a month.

Oh ho ho we're so fucked.

Going into negotiations without a functional government to back things up, how could this go wrong?
 
Oh ho ho we're so fucked.

Going into negotiations without a functional government to back things up, how could this go wrong?
Strong and stable strong and stable strong and stable stable strong.
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Just out for a late lunch after a seminar on the impact of Brexit and GDPR going forward.

Essentially, it doesn't matter what data protection regime the UK comes up with, if it's not GDPR compliant (and there's not an adequacy agreement) the UK will not be trading much if any services with the EU. Digital services will be the most affected.

Nice sovereignty you've got there...
 
Oh ho ho we're so fucked.

Going into negotiations without a functional government to back things up, how could this go wrong?

yeah but think of the entertainment value


Just out for a late lunch after a seminar on the impact of Brexit and GDPR going forward.

Essentially, it doesn't matter what data protection regime the UK comes up with, if it's not GDPR compliant (and there's not an adequacy agreement) the UK will not be trading much if any services with the EU. Digital services will be the most affected.

Nice sovereignty you've got there...


There goes my job then
 
Just out for a late lunch after a seminar on the impact of Brexit and GDPR going forward.

Essentially, it doesn't matter what data protection regime the UK comes up with, if it's not GDPR compliant (and there's not an adequacy agreement) the UK will not be trading much if any services with the EU. Digital services will be the most affected.

Nice sovereignty you've got there...
Bunch of idiotic cunts will just call this fake news or trumpian b.s.
 
All goes well I'm off to France in August/sept time will be working reduced hours at my work in london but based in France full time

Have to tale care of some other personal matters but this wait until we move seems to be dragging on forever. P
 
Just out for a late lunch after a seminar on the impact of Brexit and GDPR going forward.

Essentially, it doesn't matter what data protection regime the UK comes up with, if it's not GDPR compliant (and there's not an adequacy agreement) the UK will not be trading much if any services with the EU. Digital services will be the most affected.

Nice sovereignty you've got there...

yeah but think of the entertainment value





There goes my job then

Fuck me, that would gutter the Thames Valley economy wouldn't it?
 
It'll be okay, that's just scaremongering. Project Fear 2.0.

And if it isn't, eh... your loss is a sacrifice worth making so a few old people can die knowing you won't have it as good as them.

Maybe you can retrain?

Failing that, those fields won't harvest themselves.
 
Fuck me, that would gutter the Thames Valley economy wouldn't it?

Everything here is IT services. We host Terabytes worth of data for EU clients, that will all have to be moved offshore somewhere.


It'll be okay, that's just scaremongering. Project Fear 2.0.

And if it isn't, eh... your loss is a sacrifice worth making so a few old people can die knowing you won't have it as good as them.

Maybe you can retrain? Those fields won't harvest themselves.

I will lose my home safe in the knowledge that my racist old neighbour who hates the mentally ill bloke down the road because he's black managed to stick one up at the EU
 
Just out for a late lunch after a seminar on the impact of Brexit and GDPR going forward.

Essentially, it doesn't matter what data protection regime the UK comes up with, if it's not GDPR compliant (and there's not an adequacy agreement) the UK will not be trading much if any services with the EU. Digital services will be the most affected.

Nice sovereignty you've got there...
Yes. As for as the EU is concerned data needs to remain in the EU for the most part. I think I addressed this in a post somewhere. The impact will be immense especially if the EU goes forward with plans to further strengthen data protections which the UK might not want to adopt. Any lenience it got as a member is gone once it leaves.
 
Yes. As for as the EU is concerned data needs to remain in the EU for the most part. I think I addressed this in a post somewhere. The impact will be immense especially if the EU goes forward with plans to further strengthen data protections which the UK might not want to adopt. Any lenience it got as a member is gone once it leaves.

Yeah, I was at a talk with UKIE about the games industry when data was brought up. From what I remember, the EU demands the strictest data protections, including EU member data travelling within the US?

If so, the UK backdoor buffet ain't happening. I wouldn't put it past the Tories to try, though.
 
Just out for a late lunch after a seminar on the impact of Brexit and GDPR going forward.

Essentially, it doesn't matter what data protection regime the UK comes up with, if it's not GDPR compliant (and there's not an adequacy agreement) the UK will not be trading much if any services with the EU. Digital services will be the most affected.

Nice sovereignty you've got there...

I just googled "GDPR compliant countries" and apparently Uruguay has one of them adequacy thingies. Any reason to think we wouldn't be able to get one?
 
I just googled "GDPR compliant countries" and apparently Uruguay has one of them adequacy thingies. Any reason to think we wouldn't be able to get one?
Snooper's Charter. A lot of T. May's investigatory wankery is insanely harmful to commerce which is why the entire industry is trying to lobby to stop her.
But she will not listen. And the continent will have none of that. Accepting GDPR compliance as well is to make foreign regulations part of your domestic law.
 
So Argentina, New Zealand and Uruguay "accept primacy of EU law"? I thought the Commission just assessed their protections and said yeah they're ok.

I don't know about those countries but the British government is going to mirror EU law on the subject.

I imagine No deal isn't going to be useful in that department either.
 
So Argentina, New Zealand and Uruguay "accept primacy of EU law"? I thought the Commission just assessed their protections and said yeah they're ok.

Pretty much. If you want to get the GDPR from the EU, you have to accept the primary principles as part of your domestic law. As Theonik pointed out, the snooper's charter is a complete breach of personal privacy and the EU won't have any of it, since it leaves a loophole for anyone else to exploit. That alone sinks any any chance of the UK gain GDPR compliance.
 
So Argentina, New Zealand and Uruguay "accept primacy of EU law"? I thought the Commission just assessed their protections and said yeah they're ok.
Think of it this way. By definition, if your legal protections are deemed to be lesser than what the EU requires then you cannot comply, so you must accept the EU's restrictions.

Same goes with selling any good or service in the continent after leaving even without an FTA. Before the single market companies had to make sure their products complied with the regulations of some 27 different countries to sell them over there.
 
So Argentina, New Zealand and Uruguay "accept primacy of EU law"? I thought the Commission just assessed their protections and said yeah they're ok.

All I can really say is since the day after the Brexit vote we've had customers interested in having us move our hosting to another EU nation

In practice of course this company already has satellite offices in the EU, so with remote management its possible to throw up a bunch of hardware in say, a datacentre in Paris, but that's going to cost a lot of money to set up, and looking to the future will probably hurt job prospects for those of us in the industry, not to mention UK datacentres (there are a lot of them, but you wouldn't really notice because they generally look like unlabelled warehouses)
 
So Argentina, New Zealand and Uruguay "accept primacy of EU law"? I thought the Commission just assessed their protections and said yeah they're ok.

The EU sets standards for data protection. If you comply with the standards (and there is both a 4 year recheck and the EC is tasked with monitoring 3rd party countries from any deviation between those rechecks) then you can be deemed adequate. If your "sovereign" parliament decides, I don't know, to open up all personal data to law enforcement then you're no longer adequate and the EC prohibits all data flow from member states.

There are some exceptions and entities within non adequate countries can adopt EU standards to become adequately compliant themselves. (a major thrust of the seminar) However if you have something as wideranging as the snoopers charter or the derogation of end to end encryption it's next to impossible to see how any UK based company could be adequately compliant.
 
The EU sets standards for data protection. If you comply with the standards (and there is both a 4 year recheck and the EC is tasked with monitoring 3rd party countries from any deviation between those rechecks) then you can be deemed adequate. If your "sovereign" parliament decides, I don't know, to open up all personal data to law enforcement then you're no longer adequate and the EC prohibits all data flow from member states.

There are some exceptions and entities within non adequate countries can adopt EU standards to become adequately compliant themselves. (a major thrust of the seminar) However if you have something as wideranging as the snoopers charter or the derogation of end to end encryption it's next to impossible to see how any UK based company could be adequately compliant.

Interesting. The City State of London then? Or would everything just be shifted to Jersey / Guernsey / IoM?
 
Interesting. The City State of London then? Or would everything just be shifted to Jersey / Guernsey / IoM?
It is much more likely you lose single market access for those entire industries or a no-deal scenario is reached. It's really difficult for the Tories to carry on with their committments while still complying which is why May wanted a 'screw the economy hardest brexit ahoy' approach. It's pretty hard for her to do that now.
 
Interesting. The City State of London then? Or would everything just be shifted to Jersey / Guernsey / IoM?

Regions or businesses (providing there is an underlying legal framework in the country to allow for redress and which allows them to comply) can agree Model Clauses or Binding Corporate Rules with the commission.

The UK will initially be compliant but it'll need to work to stay there. You don't have to exactly mirror GDPR clause for clause but the legal framework should be roughly equivalent in totality.
 
Regions or businesses (providing there is an underlying legal framework in the country to allow for redress and which allows them to comply) can agree Model Clauses or Binding Corporate Rules with the commission.

The UK will initially be compliant but it'll need to work to stay there. You don't have to exactly mirror GDPR clause for clause but the legal framework should be roughly equivalent in totality.
Also keeps the hated EUJ bug bear. To get an agreement would require furious
Backpedaling because what little May has shared is precisely the opposite.
 
All this shit about backdoors and internet crackdowns is 100% coming directly from TM herself, she was always pushing this nonsense as Home Sec. I expect it will all get dropped when she gets the boot.
 
All this shit about backdoors and internet crackdowns is 100% coming directly from TM herself, she was always pushing this nonsense as Home Sec. I expect it will all get dropped when she gets the boot.
She's desperately trying to turn the news into a "what have you got to hide?" Shit
. I hope the media isn't idiotic enough to fall for it.
 
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