[tonyedgecombe]

>lots of governments pass lots of laws and regulations and are untruthful about what they'll do later.

If I was giving them the benefit of the doubt I would say they are trying to avoid losing face.

[bananapub]

what on earth does that mean?

the bill passed: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137

the entire thing that happened yesterday is a nobody minister (not the actual person in charge of any of this) said they wouldn't do a thing the law allows them to do. they didn't change the law, or pass a regulation or anything, they just did a speech.

[Ylpertnodi]

>they are trying to avoid losing face.

After boris johnson, liz truss, not achieving much after 13 years etc, etc, etc I rather suspect saving face is the least of a Tory worry.

[tmpX7dMeXU]

That’s not how you save face. Genuinely, if nobody said anything about this anymore, basically everyone would forget about it. The privacy nerds that would remember this 6 months from now would be utterly politically immaterially few