<story><title>Are we doing this again? Yes, we&apos;re doing this again</title><url>https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/11/08/investigatory-powers-act-amendment-kings-speech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>okeuro49</author><text>The UK Home Office has not raised an eyebrow about people shouting &amp;quot;jihad&amp;quot; on the streets of London. The UK government also gave a housing allowance to a leader of Hamas. [1]&lt;p&gt;The Home Office doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to care either about child exploitation in Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, if it is committed by a protected group. [2]&lt;p&gt;One could suggest that before implementing dragnet surveillance on the public, that the UK government could first investigate what is happening in public view, but is not talked about because it is politically inconvenient.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;hamas-chief-lives-london-council-house-uk-phnpsssx5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;hamas-chief-lives-london-...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mattgoodwin.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;what-i-told-oxford&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mattgoodwin.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;what-i-told-oxford&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>The Rotherham failings were not so much because of the &amp;quot;wrong type&amp;quot; of perpetrators, but the wrong type of &lt;i&gt;victims&lt;/i&gt;. Sexual assault and rape have pretty miserable conviction rates at the best of times, and victims experience substantial misogyny. In the case of Rotherham, most of the victims were young girls who were in the local authority &amp;quot;care&amp;quot; system, many of whom were known to the police already. So the police reacted to their complaints with the old &amp;quot;of course you were raped, you shouldn&amp;#x27;t have been there &amp;#x2F; doing that&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;(Think about it: do you know the names or faces of any of the Rotherham victims? Are they doing the campaigning? Or is it people using them to grind an axe which has little to do with the actual crimes?)&lt;p&gt;What is the actual reason for not giving Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, a person with no UK criminal convictions, the rights of any other resident? Are we saying that local authorities should screen people for political views before offering them housing as they are statutorily required to?</text></comment>
<story><title>Are we doing this again? Yes, we&apos;re doing this again</title><url>https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/11/08/investigatory-powers-act-amendment-kings-speech/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>okeuro49</author><text>The UK Home Office has not raised an eyebrow about people shouting &amp;quot;jihad&amp;quot; on the streets of London. The UK government also gave a housing allowance to a leader of Hamas. [1]&lt;p&gt;The Home Office doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to care either about child exploitation in Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, if it is committed by a protected group. [2]&lt;p&gt;One could suggest that before implementing dragnet surveillance on the public, that the UK government could first investigate what is happening in public view, but is not talked about because it is politically inconvenient.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;hamas-chief-lives-london-council-house-uk-phnpsssx5&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;hamas-chief-lives-london-...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mattgoodwin.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;what-i-told-oxford&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mattgoodwin.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;what-i-told-oxford&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leoedin</author><text>The home office aren&amp;#x27;t giving enough funding (and&amp;#x2F;or organisational change?) to the police either. Bike stolen? Car stolen? House broken into? Mugged on the street? They don&amp;#x27;t have time to investigate any of it.&lt;p&gt;This stuff is what actually reduces the quality of life of the average person. Why waste time and money putting this sort of draconian and technically infeasible law through when they&amp;#x27;re doing nothing about petty (or increasingly less petty) crime?</text></comment>