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From the macrumors thread: > So much for personal liberties. I'd like to give Labour the benefit of the doubt and assume this is a holdover from the last gover
by maeil 2y ago
From the macrumors thread:
> So much for personal liberties. I'd like to give Labour the benefit of the doubt and assume this is a holdover from the last government knowing how fast the civil service actually works but given the Tory 3.0 plan they are going with I wouldn't put it passed them.
>We didn't vote for this.
You very much did vote for this, you voted for Labour under Keir Starmer and he did not particularly hide his being tory-lite. If one is surprised by this they must not have paid any attention before voting.
- scrlk 2y agoHave people forgotten the authoritarian tendencies of the 1997–2010 Labour governments? This is nothing new.
- blibble 2y agoquite why Labour deserve the benefit of the doubt on anything authoritarian I don't know Labour was behind: - forced key disclosure (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000), still in force - 72 day detention without charge (Terrorism Act 2006), defeated before it became an Act - national identity register and mandatory id cards (Identity Cards Act 2006), ripped up by the next Tory government - various attempts at removal of ancient right to trial by jury (partially successful) they are as bad, if not worse than the tories
- zahllos 2y agoAs I posted under another comment, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Data_Bill_2008 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Data_Bill_200... - communications data bill 2008 / interception modernisation programme. A precursor to what became the IPA.
- Jigsy 2y agoDidn't they abolish double jeopardy and introduce secret trials as well?
- blibble 2y agoyes, more Jack Straw specials
- physicsguy 2y agoLabour are social democrats, not classical liberals…
- mistercheph 2y agoYeah yeah vote for the other clowns next time, they'll definitely roll back these totalitarian policies :)
- alt227 2y agoIts crazy how people still think one political party will be 'better' than another! I guess they must be young. After you have seen 10 or so government terms play out you soon learn.