Westministenders: Gin O'Clock

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After disaster after Salzberg and a very predictable humilation over the Chequers Deal which the ERG reject, moderate Brexiteers reject, Remainers reject and the EU reject....

May does a press conference...

...which is delayed by a power shortage inside No. 10.

And....

www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/24/uk_issues_first_gdpr_violation_against_brexit_campaigner/

The first ever violation notice over Europe new data privacy laws has been issued – and has landed on a Canadian data analytics firm that campaigned for Brexit.

The GDPR notice was sent by the UK's Information Commissioner (ICO) against AggregateIQ, a firm linked to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, and it faces a possible €20m ($23.5m) fine. The company has appealed.

The notice is the first in the new data privacy environment where companies are legally obligated to limit the personal data they gather on people, be open about how they use that data and allow people to demand that their information is deleted.

Amazingly, given its status as the first GDPR notice, it was sent in July but was only noticed late last week by eagle-eyed law firm Mishcon De Reya. For some reason, the notice wasn't posted on the ICO's enforcement page, and in fact there is no mention of it anywhere on the ICO website. The notice itself [PDF] was hyperlinked in an annex at the end of a "investigation update" into the "use of data analytics in political campaigns."

The report [PDF] title refers to the Cambridge Analytica scandal where the shady data company gathered information on millions of people by using a feature on social media giant Facebook where a company could suck in information on the friends of people who downloaded a particular app – in this case, a "survey."

plenty of space singing

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45625724

'Much has been written in the past few months about the Institute of Economic Affairs, the right-wing think tank. But there is one element of its work that could do with more scrutiny: its maths.'

Chris Cook has analysed the IEA Brexit report. Here's his tweet about it

twitter.com/xtophercook/status/1044219975408529408

I thought it had gone quiet about the Facebook data, glad someone has done something instead of a shrug of the shoulders like everything else that was wrong with brexit campaign. Nice it's made a historical first we know how the brexiters like to feel special.

My climbing days are over. Have you got a hoist?

It's a special magic tree. A bit like these ridiculous rock climbing feats and you wonder how on earth people get up, there's actually some nice steps around the back!

< waves from a tree in Germany; chucks across some bars of Lindt choc to save you all from the US Cadbury atrocities >

If it’s the faraway tree, shuffle up a bit. I have to pay my way.

Mmmm, Lindt, tasty tasty

Maybe we should start a thread in Brexit about today's UK govt no deal "guidance" ?
That might be cruel to the unicorn-religionists, though

😂 John Gace: Hard Brexiters’ new plan gets A+ for idiocy

Entertainment while we're lounging / burping along the branches

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/24/hard-brexiters-new-plan-gets-a-for-idiocy

What we should have been doing is signing loads of other trade deals with the US and the rest of the world behind the EU’s back

– the US was apparently just gagging to do deals before it knew what final trade arrangement we had agreed with the EU –

because the EU would definitely never have found out was going on and pointed out its illegality,
said the country’s leading trade lawyer 😂

"He concluded by saying that deregulation was the way forward
– British workers deserved the same rights to be crushed to death by collapsing buildings as their counterparts in Bangladesh" 🤦🏻‍♀️😂

Talking OF trees, what was the 'singing ringing tree' all about? It was 'foreign' made so relevant to the Brexit thread (sort of). Boo Bah was pretty way out too. I think MNHQ are punishing us for talking about Brexit too much so they have confiscated the 'enter' key.

Lindt! Yum. Good article that one Swedish what a wee fibber. Good idea for no deal thread. BCF

Where is this tree of which you speak? I’m all for a bit of direct action. I got arrested at Greenham Common when I was 15 and my DF was the local Tory mayor. I made the front page of the Newbury Weekly News much to my dad’s shame. Is it my imagination or has the Macron thread gone kaput?

There was some chocolate in Lidl in France last week. 3 X 100g bars for about £1.20. Made in Germany I think and it was at least OK and didn't say palm oil.

YES PROPER CHOCOLATE! Might getaway with a thread outside of brexit, still have the med one running in chat and had a half serious and half tounge in cheek AIBU macron thread. Neither has been moved, med one attracted no vocal leavers that I know of either. But that may be because obviously the no deal plans are so shite no one can defend them?? Had a PM from a Westminster mnetter today who had a response from an MP - so that's 3 responses! Skipped over no deal but assured that the government is commited to spending money on social care and NHS.