I believe it is still Labour Party policy to grant the vote to children it says cannot be trusted to scroll Instagram after 8pm.
Last I checked, the NSPCC - the leading child protection charity in the UK - was against the government's approach here. The Molly Rose Foundation, set up explicitly to counter online harm to kids, was against the government's approach here.
It is stricter and less workable even than Australia's model, which has not proven particularly workable itself.
It was not in Labour's manifesto. It entails a gross invasion of privacy, not only for kids, but for adults who must prove they are not kids
It imposes a vast and utterly unethical cost, to enact a policy that does not work, so a party of developmentally stunted mediocrities can appoint itself parent to your kids.
I am not a violent person. I despise violence. I have never thrown a punch in anger. And I would not trust myself to be in the same room as the Prime Minister, because I would probably hit him in his fat, vacant, smug, incompetent, undercooked gammon steak of a face.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban
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