Now I know absolutly no politicians can be trusted.....

[Polarbear]

Nicola is doing a good job of ensuring that fact is true.

UK Covid inquiry: Nicola Sturgeon's Covid WhatsApp messages 'all deleted'

Mind you. I don't blame her. Delete everything because some wanker will blame you for saying something bad 20 years ago.
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[virus]

Mr Polar Bear,

With respect, Please teach me how you have managed to get to the age you are now and yet have only just lost faith in politicians? I would like to regain some of the blissful ignorance of youth that in your case seems to have never looked at a calendar.

Respectfully
Virus
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owned: 85 rat CG (sold), 91 GS500e (stolen), 84 gsx400f (scrapped), 81 z250 (siezed, siezed, scrapped), 83 cb250rs (sold), 84 gpz750r ratfighter (killed) 84gpz400 (sold), '80 cb650 ratfighter (wrote off) 95gsx6/12f ratfighter (killed) 91 xj900 (sold)
stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[Polarbear]

[virus]

We all did, Its just most people gave up in their late 20s/ early 30s at a guess, I dont know many people of your generation that have only just given up on them all.
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stinkwheel Well I just had my hands up a pigs fanny. Which makes your concerns pale into insignificance.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Cancel Blair’s expensive, failed devolution idea now. When you look at the astonishingly low calibre of candidates stepping into Westminster, and the corrupt or idiotic folk running county councils, why would we expect the ‘too ambitious for council, too useless even for government’ yet dangerously empowered middle men and women to function well?

Ongoing Northern-Irish sectarianism means the fools won’t even meet in their own parliament, and Sinn Fein still won’t attend Westminster. The Welsh parliament’s achievements appear to be an even worse NHS and a namby-pamby (it even sounds like a Welsh word) obsession with 20 mph speed limits. Scotland’s drugs problem leads Europe, their education system has declined significantly, they couldn’t/wouldn't even report a national census, they lost a referendum but want a rerun, the SNP is riddled with electoral, policing and financial corruption, and Holyrood politics has been somehow dominated by trans-sexuals (if you want to wear a dress and still go to the Gents I don’t care) with a paedo- or anti-women mentality (now I care). Meanwhile the devolved leaders are spending taxpayers’ money attending international conferences beyond their remit (like Sadiq Khan, shamefully the Mayor of London), and the UK government can’t object for fear of being anti-something or other which isn’t allowed.

As a chap from a working class background in the twilight of a professional career I wonder how Labour abandoned the working class (or how the working class was replaced by an underclass and a new, barely self-sufficient middle class) and became the party of the long-term bennies, the gimmedat immigrants, the art-grant dependants and the deviants.

We’re now a ‘first-world nation’ which can’t even make its own steel or manage its own utilities. I despair, I have no kids but I worry for my nieces. I’m sure they’ll be fine but it should have been so much better. I did my bit. It wasn’t enough to stop the madness.

[stinkwheel]

Surely it's just good security not to leave years of potentially sensitive information lurking on whatsapp ready to be stolen with a single mobile device?

How many of us would like all our whatsapp messaging in the public domain anyway?

What boggles me is that politicians are allowed to use it for work related comms at all.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

They were using WhatsApp to discuss and decide political policy so yes, it should be available for scrutiny, unlike the banter yer mate sends. Even if you think it shouldn’t be available, the diligent deletion of all of it while pledging full transparency (they meant for others) should be concerning.

[Polarbear]

[Easy-X]

[MCN]

[MCN]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/matt-hancocks-former-aide-gina-24418666.amp


This is the sort of elected trash we are forced to contend with.

I blame their peers.

Matt Hancock. (Former MP/Cabinet Minster/Adulterer

Health Secretary blew off his own covid rules.

Was pumping his personally appointed secretary/adulteress.

The sort of behaviour that will instill confidence in respectable citizens that politicians are untrustworthy scoundrels.
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[bhinso]

No, you're wrong. It's only the Tory party that reeks of corruption.

Absolutely no stench in the SNP.

Oh wait...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/08/scottish-health-secretary-michael-matheson-resigns-ipad-roaming-bill

Matheson was being investigated by Holyrood authorities after he admitted his sons had used his iPad to watch football matches on their Christmas holiday in Morocco, running up a £10,935 data roaming bill.

£11k for football matches? Surely more to it than that.

[Polarbear]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Easy-X]

Let's go with 1080p HD taking around 3GB an hour to stream. Match warm up, both halves, post match analysis... 4 hours tops. 12GB of data. If I say to, for example, Vodafone I'm after roaming data for Morocco they charge that at ~£7 per day for 25GB. Being generous we'll say the kids are streaming for 12hrs and you get hit with £14 per day.

£10,000 equates to running 25 iPads for 12 hours per day... for a month

So not data. In-app purchases charged to the contract?

<addendum> the alternative is the government paying 10x the going rate for data. That sounds more likely.
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[bhinso]

I pay £32.99 a month on Sims4homes for unlimited data.

Now I'm not sure if this is UK only but wouldn't have thought it would be like £11,000 to move it outside UK

I think someone's been browsing the equivalent of 0898 numbers

[Ste]