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All hope abandon hope ye who enter here!
Irregular meanderings on security and law, with occasional swearing (and politics - with regular swearing).
10. Civil liberties
The parties agree to implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties under the Labour Government and roll back state intrusion.
This will include:
- A Freedom or Great Repeal Bill.
- The scrapping of ID card scheme, the National Identity register, the next generation of biometric passports and the Contact Point Database.
- Outlawing the finger-printing of children at school without parental permission.
- The extension of the scope of the Freedom of Information Act to provide greater transparency.
- Adopting the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database.
- The protection of historic freedoms through the defence of trial by jury.
- The restoration of rights to non-violent protest.
- The review of libel laws to protect freedom of speech.
- Safeguards against the misuse of anti-terrorism legislation.
- Further regulation of CCTV.
- Ending of storage of internet and email records without good reason.
- A new mechanism to prevent the proliferation of unnecessary new criminal offences.
Theresa May is only the second ever female home secretary - let's hope she follows in the illustrious footsteps of Jacqui Smith.
And all the Star Kingdom requires to vote is that a citizen pay at least one cent more in taxes than he receives in government transfer payments and subsidies
Conservative | ![]() | 32 | ||
Liberal Democrat | ![]() | 22 | ||
UK Independence | ![]() | 13 | ||
Green | ![]() | 10 | ||
Labour | -30 | ![]() |
Conservative | ![]() | 38 | ||
Liberal Democrat | ![]() | 24 | ||
UK Independence | ![]() | 9 | ||
Green | ![]() | 6 | ||
Labour | -8 | ![]() | ||
Scottish National Party | -15 | ![]() |
Conservative | ![]() | 44 | ||
Liberal Democrat | ![]() | 30 | ||
UK Independence | ![]() | 15 | ||
Green | ![]() | 12 | ||
Labour | -14 | ![]() | ||
Scottish National Party | -21 | ![]() |
underhand, unfair and damned un-English
(c) 'Surreptitious Evil' 2006 - 2017.