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BRITAIN’S PRO-EU opposition Liberal Democrats has elected its first female leader on a promise that she will do everything possible to “stop Brexit”.
Jo Swinson will take charge of a 31-year-old party on the rise due to its unambiguous anti-Brexit position.
Its firm stand against Britain’s split from the European Union saw it come a surprise second behind populist eurosceptic Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party in the European Parliament elections in May.
Opinion polls put the centrist party on more than 20%, should a snap general election be called to resolve the three-year Brexit crisis.
Britain is due to leave the EU on 31 October.
“As your leader, I will do whatever it takes to stop Brexit,” the 39-year-old Glasgow native told a packed London nightclub where the leadership contest result was announced.
I am ready to take our party into a general election and win it.
Swinson became the Liberal Democrats’ first female leader after beating rival Ed Davey by 47,997 votes to 28,021 on turnout of 72% among party members.
Swinson has spent two years as outgoing party leader Vince Cable’s deputy.
Davey (53) served as energy and climate change secretary when the Liberal Democrats were in a coalition government led by Conservative prime minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2015.
Davey, is a passionate environmental campaigner who sees climate change as one of Britain’s biggest threats.
Boris Johnson is likely to take over as leader of the governing Conservative Party tomorrow and replace Theresa May as prime minister on Wednesday.
Despite the Conservatives commanding a razor-thin majority in parliament, Johnson says he intends to take Britain out of the EU on 31 October, with or without a divorce deal.
Swinson said Britain “deserves better than Boris”.
But she ruled out forming a coalition with the main opposition Labour Party due to its vague Brexit stance.
“Any party that can’t decide where it stands on the biggest issue in a generation doesn’t deserve my time– and doesn’t deserve your vote,” she said.
Labour’s socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn is a lifelong eurosceptic who only this month backed the option of holding a second Brexit referendum – a key Lib Dem demand.
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If you want something kept private then don’t put it online. Least of all on social media. Users need to take some responsibility for the volume of personal information they happily put on the internet.
It’s a little more complicated than that.
No it really isn’t. If its private don’t put it online. No need to blame Facebook for peoples need to blab.
It isn’t solely what people put up online.
It’s about Facebook tracking your online habits, the sites you visit. Your GPS tracking data through your smart phone is also used. And it’s about the right of that company to sell people’s data on to third parties.
So it is a little bit more complicated than that.
Everything tracks your online habits not just Facebook as for the GPS tracking, if people didn’t freely tag themselves in every movie theatre, sporting event and restaraunt they visit then you might have a point. I’ve seen people gag themselves watching movies at “my comfy couch”
Online privacy is never going to happen. The sooner people realise that and adjust the information they share accordingly, the sooner we’ll all be safer “on our comfy couches”
Still, everything they track you put online or someone did because its interesting. Either way its never private and banning it online is just backwards.
Checking in at your home address or any other private home address always seemed unbelievably stupid….. There’s even a b
There’s even a bloody map
Everybody delete your Facebook!
i challenge anyone to delete all their private messages, comments, and friends on Facebook. then delete your account…Under Section 3 of the Data Protection Acts, you have a right to find out, free of charge, if a person (an individual or an organization) holds information about you. write to Facebook and ask them for everything they have on file about you within 21days you will be surprised to see that all these private messages, comments, friends and all other information will be pages long nothing is deleted from Facebook you may think its gone!!
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