Westminstenders: Exit 2020 Vision

[RedToothBrush]

Yet it is a great mistake to suppose that the only writers who matter are those whom the educated in their saner moments can take seriously. There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and the superstitious. There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, capturers and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people, who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility. And it occasionally happens that this underworld becomes a political power and changes the course of history.
Norm Cohn ‘Warrant for Genocide’ 1970

(As referenced by Nick Cohen).

We have a deal (or bits of a deal). Bino til Dec 2020. Then the cliff?

Still a long way to go. It sounds better than it could be. But worse than it initially seems.

John Crace has nailed it in the Guardian as usual. Poor old DD probably wishes he'd retired early.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/19/barnier-tickled-pink-as-british-red-lines-and-davis-turn-green

emily m @ maitlis
Tonight on #newsnight we have an EXLUSIVE broadcast interview with @CamAnalytica ceo Alexander Nix. Facebook, Data harvesting and the ethics of what his company does.

This was tweeted two hours ago. Before c4 broadcast.

emily m @ maitlis
"The Guardian...have been propagating a lot of this misinformation or fake news" - Alexander Nix on the media's portrayal of Cambridge Analytica #newsnight

Pre recorded interview.

So this looks like the angle the bbc have taken.... hope its better than this looks at face value

In response to the maitlis tweet with video of nix:

Krishnan Guru-Murthy @ krishgm
To be clear : He said this without seeing any of the #c4news
#CambridgeAnalyticaUncovered film and used the BBC to get a rebuttal out before they had seen it either so they couldn't ask him about what he'd been secretly filmed saying. Not a bad media strategy - anyone fooled?

Will be interesting to see how the beeb covers it
It's our fault.......and it does't matter.

And it may be the case that the influence of this company is much overblown

A new era is upon us, in which the data of masses have made a few firms massively rich. The masses need to think harder about what that means for them

www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43461779
(in entertainment and arts section of bbc website )

The pro brexit demographic is in reverse in 2020 according to OFOC.

Thanks red.

Bulletin for bbc news at ten doesn't wven mention CA.

Driverless cars killing people but not CA.

Meanwhile the bygone age of politics is summed up by this:

Esther Webber @ estwebber
Lords debating how medical devices will be regulated after Brexit - peers declaring interests left right and centre as recipients of hip/knee replacements

Driven, no it hasn't. Bbc has lost the plot.

www.gregpalast.com/cambridge-analytica-aint-nuthin-look-i360-datatrust/
Cambridge Analytica Ain’t Nuthin:
Look Out For i360 And Data Trust

I fear this is the truth... CA are, just one of many. But crooks no less.

Ha, just posted this on the trump thread:

Andy Wigmore
@andywigmore
@CamAnalytica are finished but there are a hundred more CA hovering in the background with the next adaptation of a marketing technique waiting to be launched used and abused

Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla
BREAKING: Facebook WAS inside Cambridge Analytica's office but have now "stood down" following dramatic intervention by UK Information Commissioner's Office..
The ICO is trying to get a warrant tonight to go in tonight. BUT no judge available...
Team being assembled for tomorrow morning...

The ICO is trying to get a warrant tonight to go in tonight. BUT no judge available...

Sorry, but bollocks ... imagine them shredding as we speak ?????? (Yes, I know it's 2018)

Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla
"Won't they be deleting everything right now?"
"Hopefully not."

Brendan Hughes
@brendanhughes64

DUP paid almost £33,000 to Cambridge Analytica-linked firm AggregrateIQ for its #Brexit campaign for the EU referendum

www.irishnews.com/news/2017/05/11/news/dup-s-brexit-campaign-spent-33-000-on-social-media-micro-targeting-firm-1023022/

#CambridgeAnalyticaUncovered

Reuters Business @ reutersbiz
JUST IN: European Commission says, if confirmed, the misuse of Facebook personal data for political purposes is unacceptable $FB

What’s up with this “wait til the morning” business?

Its the sound of drilled hard drives and typewriters being installed.

There must be no judges on social media that can be contacted.

No judge available Courage fail.

@Haggis_UK
Baroness Butler-Sloss - if a vote in the House of Commons rejects the deal... what will the government do?

Lord Callanan - We hope Parliament won't reject the deal but in such circumstances that would be an instruction to move on without a deal. 😲

Duh.

Rees-Moog is doing a fish flinging stunt tomorrow.

Something to look forward to.

amp.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/19/where-is-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-ceo-cambridge-analytica-scandal?__twitter_impression=true
Where's Zuck? Facebook CEO silent as data harvesting scandal unfolds
Amid calls for investigation and a #DeleteFacebook campaign, company releases an official statement but its figurehead keeps quiet