Thank you.
I backed my gifs to Postimage just in case.
All have been stored in cloud sites for years.
Finding reliable 3rd party file hosting, there’s the problem.
I’ve been with Tinypic, Photobucket, Google (sites RIP), Dropbox (workaround, which I suspect will close one day).
Some members hotlink existing images, which regard as balls. It’s lazy, the images often humongous, and those might disappear in a breath.

I appreciate your phrase, “Hopefully the UK Govt will see some sense …” which made me laugh.
Sense? From governments national, regional, local?
And do you believe in leprechauns, little boy?
The world is mad.