Alex

"Comme si nous interdisions les baguettes ou le vin": la Suède furieuse de l'interdiction française des sachets de nicotine (six autres pays européens contestent la loi) bfmtv.com/economie/conso…

I don't do repeat business with companies that treat me like shit. The clubcard price is not cheaper, its the standard price, the other is randomly double. Shopping is not fun anymore, no one wants 100 cards for every fucking company you buy something from.

should genuinely be taken to the EU courts as a direct restriction on free trade targeting a specific member country without any valid reasoning based on public health due to a lack of restriction on other nicotine products btw

Britain’s Nanny State is out of control. While the economy stagnates and taxes crush families, politicians obsess over micromanaging your private life. Here’s some of the latest insanity: - Generational Tobacco Ban: Born after 2009? You’ll NEVER legally buy cigarettes. Forever. - Disposable vapes banned outright. - Junk food ads banned online 24/7 & before 9pm on TV. - No more BOGOF deals or end-of-aisle displays. - Calorie counts forced on every restaurant menu. - High-caffeine energy drinks banned for under-16s. - Sugar tax expanding to milkshakes & more. - ULEZ-style charges hammering older cars nationwide.
 - Online Safety Act: Age verification & scanning for legal adult content + private posts. They're treating adults like children and families like idiots who can’t make their own choices. Why is Westminster so obsessed with what we eat, smoke, drink, watch, or drive… instead of cutting red tape, slashing taxes, fixing immigration, and making Britain prosperous and FREE again? Enough. Prioritise freedom and growth, not this petty control freakery.

Take it to the ECHR as a violation of Article 14, LOL.

One of my biggest redpills was finding out just how many people do not understand this. They actually think infinity free stuff to infinity uneducated third worlders could work if we just tax the rich more or something. These people number in the hundreds of millions.

@VietNewsGateway These puritanical weirdos with their stupid ideas need to be stopped.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has proposed banning people born on or after January 1, 2010 from purchasing or using tobacco products as part of efforts to create a future smoke-free generation in the country. Full story: news.tuoitre.vn/vietnam-health…

The UK is training a new generation to become VPN experts. Australia has shown that an under 16-year-old social media ban doesn't work. Keir Stamer is determined to make the UK number one in VPN use.

@EadrictheWild @kateferguson4 I agree.

@Admalez @kateferguson4 It should all be harmonised. Its a complete mess. If your old enough to vote your old enough for everything else. Or make it all 18 (my preference)

EXCL: Sir Keir Starmer is expected to ban social media for under 16s. A government consultation on curbs ends on Tuesday & no final decision will be taken until after that. But I understand No10 policy chiefs have privately said they expect a total ban thesun.co.uk/news/39197313/…

Meta is lobbying for KOSA in the US. But watch what they already did in Australia, broken down by TechWinCyber in his new video. Australia was the test case. Now they're coming for you. NewsCorp is also behind this. They must be stopped. youtube.com/watch?v=kUMItA…

I agree tbh

@sandylanceley Western appears to be shorthand for majority white countries except for Japan and Indonesia.

I don’t think you can include Russia as a western country anymore, perhaps ever. Certainly Indonesia isn’t western.

@EadrictheWild @kateferguson4 Also driving is 17, army is only 16 with parental consent and can't be deployed, marriage is now 18 with no execptions.

@EadrictheWild @kateferguson4 Currently, smoking purchase age is 18 but they have just voted to ban future adults from that as they are bunch of meddling cretinous authoritarians.

First it was: just pass the Online Safety Act to make UK "safest place in the world online" Now: "we must ban social media for under 16s" If the first claim was true, why the second? We warned OSA would chill political speech - and it is. We dread to think what comes next

@TheDesKelly Why didn't you advocate joining Schengen before Brexit if queuing was such a big deal?

Brexit dividend? Remember? If you voted for that you're a moron. Happy holidays.

When in political panic, they always grab the BAN bag. Ban social media for under 16s but give 16yos the vote; proclaim digital ID will be voluntary but age-gate post 16s to access online public square; evidence-based policy that ignores ALL evidence from ban in Australia...GRRR

@kateferguson4 Is it really hard not to implement unworkable authoritarian stuff all the time?

Not nearly as bad as Ukrophobia among the extremes on both sides.

729,000 young people in Britain are unemployed. That's a 16.2% unemployment rate. Successive governments chose to fail them. Why?