The Writing's On The Wall

This from the Guardian shows what a ridiculous situation we have arrived at. Under this great Labour government our long-cherished freedoms are under constant threat as the fuzz get more and more sweeping powers unfettered, it seems, by any resemblance of control from central government. Still at least we're safe from the evil chalk-wielding hordes of terrorists thronging onto our streets encouraged, no doubt, by the new pinko Prez in the big white bog in Washington. Boy, do I feel safe!

PS - I notice that the Guardian section is called 'Comment is Free' - have they got a surprise in store.


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KYC Extends UK Paranoia

Jesus H Christ it's getting worse by the day in the cradle of democracy. Has the whole world gone stark raving mad? Timesonline is reporting news that you will need to present a passport to obtain a mobile phone in future. So that's great. Now as well as having to present two (or is it three now) forms of identification to a person who's been taking my bank deposits for nearly ten years in case I'm money laundering, parroting some laughable excuse for a security check every, repeat every, time I want to discuss my meagre pension with some call-center exotic, being told that my call may be recorded for 'training and security purposes', I now have to produce a passport if I want get a mobile phone which is not much more than a glorified radio tag anyway. Well I've had about enough of this bollocks. Jaqui 'if you've done nothing wrong you've got nothing to fear' Smith has gone too far this time and this worm is ready for turning. I'm about as likely to vote Conservative as I am to stick a loofa up my arse and fart the Marseillaise but David Cameron is looking ever more appealing as the New Labour machine moves into Wermacht territory with Ms Smith as Goebbels goose stepping to the tune of the far right. What the hell happened to the Labour Party? Did someone scoop out their principles and replace them with those of the tin pot ruler of some banana republic. How did we let this happen and how can we reverse it? If Osmam Bin Laden had designed the best possible outcome for his personal jihad he couldn't, in his wildest dreams, have thought that all his desires would have been enacted voluntarily by the free society he so vehemently opposes. Game, set and match Osama Bin L. say I.

New Labour(Conservative Lite) Introducing Orwell for the Rest of Us

Cory Doctrow over on Boing Boing has written a scary piece on how he, as a non-British resident will have to carry one of the new biometric ID cards. Remember folks, this brave new world is being brought to you by the Association of Chief Police Officers centre-fold pin-up lickspittle Jaqui Smith our beloved Home Secretary. ACPO says, 'Jump!' Jaqui says 'How high?'

George Orwell would have been proud of her dedication to making the people of Britain into the most spied upon, most tracked, most databased population on the planet. But hey, if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear. Tell that to Jean Charles De Menezes or Stefan Kizko or any of the numerous other victims of the miscarriage of justice in this fine and pleasant land.

To paraphrase Neil Kinnock, we are being treated to the spectacle of a Labour Government, a Labour Government, scuttling round slicing huge raw lumps off our liberties in the name of security. Seems that they only have to scare us shitless to gain themselves carte blanche to massacre the very society hundreds of our dedicated forbears worked so hard to achieve.

That these abominations should be foisted on us by a governmet purporting to be left-wing is all the more ironic.