Do you feel less watched these days?

[Peter]

Yep, you'd think with 20% of he worlds cctv cameras in this country, (covering just 1% of the worlds population), they'd manage a slightly better conviction rate of 0.1% from using the bloody things.

[jimslip]

The bumbling fools running the Olympics are quite reassuring if you are worried about totalitarianism. New Labour puppet-masters were scary because they managed to regiment and control all their MP's, no one dared say a word. A Labour convention was resembling a convention of North Korean's all clapping in unison. If arch twat, Jacqui Smith had announced all TV's would be fitted with cameras, there woudn't have been a murmur of protest from the New Labour back benches.

The Coalition is far too bumbling and preoccupied with other stuff to crush our freedoms, whereas it is in the very nature, the actual fabric of socialists to do exactly that.

Just look at how David Johnson patrols the corridors of BGAFD, do you think for a second that if he had the power to censor posts on here, he wouldn't hesitate to use it? It is in his nature, he cannot help himself. I think it is reassuring that topics are being discussed on here that would have been avoided a few years ago. Topics on immigration, pakistani paedophiles and race are being discussed freely. In the old days DJ would have savagely attacked anyone who even dared to bring up these topics for discussion.

I believe if New Labour had won the last election, we would not be discussing these topics for fear of having crossed the lines of Political Correctness set out by the government. I also believe that by now David johnson would have had the power to make phone calls to the authorities and report people who he believed had transgressed these rigid boundaries.

[David Johnson]

http://bgafd.co.uk/forum/read.php?f=3&i=258931&t=258927

Scores on the doors so far

1 Yes for "Do you feel less watched these days?" Guess who cupcake?

8 No's

I think New Labour must have taken control of people's brainwaves.

Ooooooh scary!!!!!!

[milton]

I just love the new freedoms under the ConLib con party...



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[Arginald Valleywater]

Got to disagree Jim. Nanny State is running at full pelt and getting stronger by the day.

[Essex Lad]

If you give more power to almost anyone - policeman, politician, headmaster, local councillor - they will always, always always abuse it.

People quote Lord Acton's dictum "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" but leave off or forget the next line "Great men are almost always bad men."

[David Johnson]

Absolutely correct.

A fairly typical example was Labour bringing in an act covering surveillance which allegedly was aimed at terrorists. The act was then used by councils to spy on people who were living outside a catchment area and were trying to get their children into a highly regarded school by renting nearby.

Councils also applied to use the act to keep surveillance on owners who's dogs were fouling the pavements.

[Flat_Eric]

And let's not forget those microchipped bins.

- Eric

[Essex Lad]

I really don't understand why councils do/did this - it just gives the public more reason to hate them. Blair said that his government was the servants of the people (hence the title for the first Rawnsley book) but most councils seem to prefer Herbert Morrison's comment.