is the UK in a death spiral.

Originally posted by Garlic munched: ↑

Probably had an arguable case until you said the UK was in a death spiral because:

Assange, "who has committed no crime apart from honest journalism" - Assange ain't no journalist. Journalists don't just dump complete information files out in public without consideration. Its even more egregious when the files dumped contained personal medical details, the personal details of teenage rape victims and even disclosed details of homosexuals in Muslim countries.

It has "Cameras everywhere eliminating privacy". Putting aside that loss of privacy in "public" doesn't really equate with a country death spiraling, the US and China must have already gone, gone, gone down the gurgler with both having approx. 2 x as many cameras per 100 individuals as the UK.

Then of course, the UK doesn't have China's social credit system which is based on many data points, from financial creditworthiness to social factors assessed by the Communist Party, such as honesty, hard work, and devotion to family.

China has national and regional blacklists that are based on individual violations of its social policy, and a poor score impacts a person’s ability to travel, gain employment, or access credit and you worry about the UK's loss of privacy?

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Hey Garlic, thanks for the reply. Pointing out that others are worse does not therefore mean you are in good shape. China was already at the bottom of the barrel regarding privacy. That social credit system could be OK if they eliminated the politics. We have credit ratings agencies.
It is hard to compare camera numbers considering both the USA and China each have areas to cover the size of Western Europe.
IMO The UK should be held to a much higher standard, but with other considerations, such as degraded social conditions due to incompatibility between migrant religions and British law. That will just get worse as minority numbers increase with higher fertility rates. Was Enoch Powell right? As the economy goes into recession it could increase crime and the need for cameras.
The UK needs politicians who can turn their economy around.
We will have to disagree about Assange. As I see it the US is attempting to kill free press by pulling a journalist out of a foreign country. UK is co operating like an obedient vassal state. Assange didn't steal the files. Why not snuff out the last of the free press? Deport him to the country whose war crimes he exposed, the country that was plotting to kill him.