As we welcome in the New Year, and I wish everyone a very happy and prosperous Year to come, we read and see endless lists in the newspapers and on TV of the events that shaped our world in the year just gone.
Is it not time that one of those lists
included all the curtailment of freedoms, civil liberties and rights that we have lost, and the restrictive practices that are in place because of government
legislation, highlighting the changes that have occurred either by direct Acts
of Parliament, the sneaky changes which have been enacted by Statutory
Instruments or the powers that we believe have just been taken and are awaiting
challenge.
There are thousands of bloggers out there
in the
Would it not be nice to see all the dots
joined up, to see all the changes that have occurred, and have a list that can
be presented to the opposition parties, so that we can challenge them, ask them
what rights they would give us back, what freedoms they would re-enable, and
what legislation they would repeal.
Let us the public start to set the political agenda, rather than blindly following the politicians who assume that we passively accept the entire manifesto of a party at election time, and to let them know that when they lie, when they fail to deliver on promises, when they prove to be incompetent or are seen to be corrupt, we will no longer tolerate it, and we wont idly sit back and let them hide it all behind more restrictive legislation.
Send your suggestions, comments and lists
to me at blogmail@parker-joseph.co.uk,
which I am happy to begin to compile, properly referenced, so that I can
distribute for all bloggers to publish, in a united voice.
Why restrict this to last year, lets look at legislation enacted during the lifetime of this government, or even earlier. If we want our rights and freedoms back, we need to ask for them, if we want to stop the creeping tide towards an authoritarian state we have to say so.
