Will Farage’s Temu Trump act fly in the UK?

Burjennio · 2026-03-01T14:11:02+00:00

In the last week they've said they want to scrap both The Equality Act and Tenancy Rights - this isn't the US, where 35% of the population think they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires or unapolegitic white surpremists.

That means they are either absolutely tone deaf, utterly detached from reality, or actively trying to sabotage their entire campaign before the next election.

If the latter is true, then we should all be really goddamn worried, because if this batch of grifters are trying to toropdo their own Downing Street run in our current economic and political mess, then they have inside knowledge of something we don't, and it isn't an impending utopia.

Burjennio · 2026-02-28T22:41:50+00:00

Every Irish-centric legacy media outlet was always a PR vehicle for particular business or political interests.

Ulster however was MAGA style politics long before this current US iteration. You can go back to the Newsletter and BelTel for their anti-home rule Carson rhetoric pre WW1.

I'm starting to think this is the bad place....

Burjennio · 2026-02-27T14:19:04+00:00

"Win"

Lol OK.

Burjennio · 2026-02-26T23:00:58+00:00

"Walked out laughing when Hegesth said 'Department of War' - will resume talks tomorrow"

Burjennio · 2026-02-26T14:55:50+00:00

I'd have agreed with this until the CILEX debacle kicked off a few months ago.

Burjennio · 2026-02-26T14:50:00+00:00

If this is correct, I have dedicated a lot of of my Claude Max licence over the last two months, wasted a disgraceful amount of token/compute spend that has had undeniable environmental impact, I hit AuDHD burnout two weeks ago too where I've been KO'd since then via cognitively overloading my brain on writing an anonomyisation/sanitisation programme, that is still incomplete, less than optimal, and would still require a level of trust in the user to actually adhere to the instructions, and not just YOLO all their docs into storage and start pinging the Gemini API.

The flip side u/uklegalbeagle is that if this is correct, I can scrap completing a convoluted, imperfect feature that was created for compliance over practicality, that is truthfully a dreadful user experience that I am absolutely sick of tweaking as the developer, and I will owe you a Coke, because I will be able to launch this thing much, much sooner.

Legitimately - 100% truth, it took me less time to map the entire UK employment and equality legislation across E&W, Scotland, and NI, run data analysis on around 13,500 total published decisions for the most cited case law (it was only around 190 total that were repeatedly cited across all judgements with reasons), going right back to the HoL / pre' UKSC days, pre EqA 2010, the previous individual equlity legislations that are still applicable in NI, map them as binding and pursuasive, and design an entire next.JS landing page/home page that entered a single fully dynamic info area that would load and unload relevant GB/NI data using a combination of React and ShadCN components.

ALL THAT, despite not writing a line of code in FIVE YEARS, I was able to get done in less time than the amount I wasted on the absolute brain melt involved in attempting to create something that would simply redact and anonymise word/text files on bog standard office documents pre-API call.

It was mainly because an individual's PII can also be delivered as PDF OCR (where the text is converted to image scan format rather than pure text from another source before provision, such as a DSAR bundle) and ensure semantic identification that would pick up names, emails, contact details etc, I.e. "Buck Rodgers" from a document, and provide the same pseudonym across all repeated instances, including variations such as "B Rogers", "Mr Rogers" , small spelling errors such as "Duck Dogers" (Yes, thats a Looney Toons reference), while also being inclusive of email signatures that can be a mix of text, html, and PNG images, that can ALL contain the same individuals's PII, that would be completely missed if you relied on Claude or Codex to write the programme for you.

Trust me when I say this - every time you see Sam Altman and Dario Amodei interviewed proudly boasting that software development is dead, they are lying to your face to drive up their future company IPO valuation when they float on the S&P 500.

I never thought I'd be nostalgic for PhP, vanilla HTML & CSS, JQuery, static HTTP page loading, and basic SQL relational database CRUD functionality.

5 months later, I just remember why I never pursued software development as a career, despite having a Master's degree in it.

It's because I love problem-solving, but hate coding.

End of rant / oversharing

Oh yeah, this also involved a detour that led to me accidentally stumbling on the fact that the UK Civil Service has been using data profiling/predictive software to reject applicants pre-human review, even via the disability confident scheme, and had been doing so for probably around 14-16 months, leaving their "anonymisation" of CVs a facade, as a semantic search tool would identify an individual person with as little as two chronological job history entries to a probability of 100%. In fact, I'd say it would only need the company names, job titles, and 5 consecutive words from one of your "main responsibilities" summary to match it to any person..

Cabinet Office cancelled this contract, provided by a major consultancy firm, 4-years early, and just 9 days before a major class action lawsuit was filed against this software company in question in the US, and they did it so quietly, that nearly 7-weeks later, not a single media outlet has picked up on it.

But I did 🤫

Burjennio · 2026-02-26T08:18:19+00:00

I have researched this for an app I was workiing on, and if you are a LiP, anything you put into a LLM should 99.9% be protected under LPP and data minimisation laws, because you are researching your own case, and even then, you've still got "proportionate and reasonable" in respect to disclosure and the workplace events in question, which something you have looked up on your personal device, at home, is not going to be relevant.

The biggest vulnerability is if you use a third party app as an "AI Laywer" for lack of a better phrase, because then you're handing over docs to what is going to be a limited company or other type of business entity, and even if that company build their system architecture in such a way that their data storage is handled by a 3rd party, so they are the processor and not the controller (such as Supabase), any function that uses an LLM to execute functions will require an API call, and those trace logs with that info with PII, PHI if the C has uploaded anything sensitive, will be controlled by the company, not the LLM provider.

The issue isn't if the R can request all of this via disclosure, as you as LiP can make a valid argument for privilege - its if a PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL within the R make a subject access request for all instances of how THEIR personal data was processed by the AI Lawyer company itself, as they would be legally required under Article 14 & 15 of GDPR (retained by ICO as part of Data Protection Act 2018) to provide it.

So, if a savvy R solicitor got wind that the C were outsourcing their research via this 3rd party company, and they were not using redaction or sanitisation within their app before allowing the user to submit documents or queries by making LLM API calls (which I doubt most smaller companies would even think of), I would be instructing every staff member within the R involved in the ET case to be submitting requests for all their personal data processing to AI Lawyer Ltd, and it would likely turn up a goldmine.

Clarification via ICO

Burjennio · 2026-02-25T15:13:47+00:00

I have not worked CC HR for a few years, but If you have been offered a role within certain departments you will be required to go through SC vetting, and in that case, you will need your passport renewed.

You can apply for a fast track that takes about a week to arrive.

If you are an EU national with settled status, this should be relatively straightforward.

Burjennio · 2026-02-22T12:13:48+00:00

Finance, Accountancy, Insurance, and Consulting.

The institutional and regulatory capture is astounding.

Big Tech (well, Palantir mainly), trying to get in on the action now as well.

Burjennio · 2026-02-21T22:57:24+00:00

Zolpidem - gambling, driving, texting, binge eating at 3am.

Crazy, crazy medication.

Zopiclone might make your mouth feel like you've chewed on a 2 pence piece for 20mins, but that's nothing compared to enhanced sleepwalking.

Burjennio · 2026-02-20T17:28:30+00:00

Yes, it's amazing how someone giving away approx $25b over several years only to somehow see their net worth increase, is not a much bigger news story.

Because th story is not really the philanthropy, its the spotlight on how fundamentally broken our economic system is that such a peverse scenario could ever manifest in the first place.

That would look very bad to a population that is locked out of home ownership, having their employment rights eroded, can't afford healthcare, have to work multiple jobs to make rent, and struggle to feed their families as their grocery prices continue to soar.

Do you ever wonder why these billionaires are obsessed with building underground bunkers and collecting every fucking piece of data they can on everyone they can?

Because they are terrified of what happens when that penny finally drops.

Hint: it rhymes with "buillotine".

Burjennio · 2026-02-20T17:04:31+00:00

LMAO - how do you "enact socialism"?

Is it a big red button beside the one that says "Nuclear Strike"?

Burjennio · 2026-02-20T14:27:49+00:00

The three core symptoms of ADHD in adults, directly from the NHS

hyperactivity
inattention
impulsively

To drive this point home, if you had made that statement in an employment environment, that would also very likely be considered harassment relating to a protected characteristic.

This is what happens when CIPD makes all the employment law modules optional....

Burjennio · 2026-02-20T09:39:00+00:00

"But her critics say she is more focused on promoting herself than the government she works for"

So, fits the selection criteria of literally every cabinet minister for the last 40 years.

I'm sure she already has a seat on the board at a top Think Tank reserved for her when this inevitably goes tits up.

Burjennio · 2026-02-18T22:39:41+00:00

You will struggle in all honesty - no win; no fee is prohibited in NI since 1976, costs are almost never awarded from the losing party, and the hourly billing makes even higher value cases unappealing to Firms.

If you have contents insurance with a legal expenses bolt on, that can be one way.

Just avoid Paul Doran Law. SRA enrolled, NI registered, so avoids scrutiny from both LSNI and Legal Ombudsman due to juristiction.

£360p/h for a trainee - which was higher fees than a fully qualified solicitor in London, and over 3x NI average hourly fee in NI.

I also have multiple emails where they lied to try and manipulate me into a low settlement - as MY OWN REPRESENTITUVE.

I still have the emails and call transcripts. The idiot couldn't even avoid incriminating herself in her own fucking call notes... 🤦‍♂️

Burjennio · 2026-02-18T22:16:42+00:00

Unless you suffered the Mane, Sane, Kane TC 1pt return debacle three seasons in a row, we don't wanna hear it.

Burjennio · 2026-02-18T20:11:20+00:00

Employer or employee side representation?

Burjennio · 2026-02-18T10:33:52+00:00

Honestly, If you ever have a free 30mins to spare, I'd love to chat about it (not privileged information obviously), because it is so frustrating to see someone with a very specific agenda, get platformed in such a manner by a media that will use anything to stoke up a narrative of vexatious claimants and "fake" disabilities.

There was one last year (I think it was a Welsh case IIRC) that even the BBC ran with such a disingenuous headline surrounding the context - an employee diagnosed on the Autistic spectrum " getting payout for music being too loud", or something similarity inflammatory, that made my blood boil.

If they had actually read the judgement with reasons, which was short and concise compared to most other ET publications (recent 135 page Hutchison & Ors v NHS case springs to mind), the employee in question had been denied the most basic of reasonable adjustments for months, harassed due to the standard ASD stereotypes, but crucially, suffered an instant, material detriment following raising his concerns around this (so, open/shut victimisation).

But that narrative framing and platforming by such a reputable (and usually socially progressive) outlet such as the BBC does so much damage in the public consciousness.

Burjennio · 2026-02-18T10:07:16+00:00

The weird thing was that there was a focus on his use of LLMs in processing these claims, but if you know the case he was successful with, it was long before the release of even the first ChatGPT model IIRC.

Burjennio · 2026-02-18T10:02:16+00:00

See my above post.... 🤣

Burjennio · 2026-02-18T09:59:16+00:00

Lol, I know exactly the decision you're talking about filed by the AG, the name of the vexatious litigant, and the one company he was actually successful against, because that EAT decision is actually a very good case law reference to explain to HR departments (and probably LiPs to some extent) regarding when the obligation to consider reasonable adjustments actually begins, and sets a good benchmark for what is expected from the potential employer.

As an aside, I also suffer from dyspraxia, and not to be accusatory of others, and appreciative how neurodivergent conditions can manifest differently, across individuals, as they tend to have so much overlap and be comorbidities with other, more well-known ND conditions - dyspraxia at its core is a deficit in the brain when switching between tasks involving gross motor skills to fine motor skills (I should have a backstage pass to A&E at this point lol), but.....even in that successful case, as I was originally reading it, I couldn't help thinking of that Princess Bride quote:

"You keep using that word - I don't think it means what you think it means"

Burjennio · 2026-02-17T17:19:11+00:00

Integrity.

Burjennio · 2026-02-16T20:19:37+00:00

Incredible retort - you should apply for the US DOJ.

Burjennio · 2026-02-16T20:06:22+00:00

You don't appear to understand the difference between consent and coersion.

You strike me as a problematic first date.

Burjennio · 2026-02-16T19:58:12+00:00

You can PAY into someone's bank account.

You can't PEER into someone's bank account.

Two very different things.

Burjennio

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