Election: Lib-Con Agreement

Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes!  Absolutely wonderful.

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.

I also note very little on Defence - a Strategic Security and Defence Review and maintenance of the deterrent (albeit with a review of Trident with agreement that the Lib-Dems don't like it.)