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Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.

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George Orwell wrote about The Ministry of Truth, which
concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The
Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which
maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for
economic affairs.

The Times
writes about new Home Office plans which are pure Orwell.

Council workers, charity staff and doctors will be required to tip off
police about anyone whom they believe could commit a violent crime,
under secret Home Office plans.

Civil liberties campaigners last night said that the proposal raised the
prospect of people being placed under surveillance and detained even though
they have committed no offence.

And a senior Whitehall
official, who leaked the plans to The Times, said that it would entail a
mass of personal information, including sensitive medical records, being passed
around many different agencies — even if there was no firm evidence of any
potential risk from an individual.

Bad day at the office, letting off steam in the car park, just had argument
with the wife, just been ripped off, just been cut up on the roundabout, mad,
angry. That’s enough…..

It
suggests that two new agencies — one for potential criminals, the other for
potential victims — might be created to collate reports from the front line and
carry out “full risk assessments”.

Are these morons at the Home
Office absolutely barking mad.

They want to turn us into a Nation of spies, of snoops and informers, neighbours telling on neighbours, sowing the seeds of mistrust. We saw what that did to East Germany. Do you really want that to happen here?

Dizzy sums it much better.

UK Liberty's view is also compelling.

NuLab – Destroying Britain
from the inside out.

Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.

IanPJ Main Page 1 comment

George Orwell wrote about The Ministry of Truth, which
concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The
Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which
maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for
economic affairs.

The Times
writes about new Home Office plans which are pure Orwell.

Council workers, charity staff and doctors will be required to tip off
police about anyone whom they believe could commit a violent crime,
under secret Home Office plans.

Civil liberties campaigners last night said that the proposal raised the
prospect of people being placed under surveillance and detained even though
they have committed no offence.

And a senior Whitehall
official, who leaked the plans to The Times, said that it would entail a
mass of personal information, including sensitive medical records, being passed
around many different agencies — even if there was no firm evidence of any
potential risk from an individual.

Bad day at the office, letting off steam in the car park, just had argument
with the wife, just been ripped off, just been cut up on the roundabout, mad,
angry. That’s enough…..

It
suggests that two new agencies — one for potential criminals, the other for
potential victims — might be created to collate reports from the front line and
carry out “full risk assessments”.

Are these morons at the Home
Office absolutely barking mad.

They want to turn us into a Nation of spies, of snoops and informers, neighbours telling on neighbours, sowing the seeds of mistrust. We saw what that did to East Germany. Do you really want that to happen here?

Dizzy sums it much better.

UK Liberty's view is also compelling.

NuLab – Destroying Britain
from the inside out.

House of Shame – Shhh don’t tell anyone but…..

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Following yesterday’s disgusting vote
to exempt MP’s from the Freedom of Information Act, comes the first of the waste
and excesses on expenses that they want hidden.

This is what the public get if you are on mobility allowance

This is what you get if you’re an MP, a £3,300 quad bike on
parliamentary expenses.

David Maclean MP, the author of the legislation to exclude
themselves from freedom of information laws to know about their MP's pay and
perks, has admitted that his top-of-the-range 250cc all-terrain vehicle was
paid for out of taxpayer-funded allowances.

Read the full story in the Mail
on Sunday.

David Maclean, like many MP’s and Ministers have seriously
underestimated public anger and disgust at this vote, and all MP's need to be
reminded once in a while that they work for us.

Any MP that does not work for us, for the public benefit, we don’t want.

We will have our say soon enough, and we will remember at the ballot box
those who took part in this vote on Friday. In the lead up to any election the
list of those who voted for this Bill will be republished, again and again and
again.

More MP’s excesses will be published when we find them. And
we will find them.

House of Shame – Shhh don’t tell anyone but…..

IanPJ Main Page Add you comment

Following yesterday’s disgusting vote
to exempt MP’s from the Freedom of Information Act, comes the first of the waste
and excesses on expenses that they want hidden.

This is what the public get if you are on mobility allowance

This is what you get if you’re an MP, a £3,300 quad bike on
parliamentary expenses.

David Maclean MP, the author of the legislation to exclude
themselves from freedom of information laws to know about their MP's pay and
perks, has admitted that his top-of-the-range 250cc all-terrain vehicle was
paid for out of taxpayer-funded allowances.

Read the full story in the Mail
on Sunday.

David Maclean, like many MP’s and Ministers have seriously
underestimated public anger and disgust at this vote, and all MP's need to be
reminded once in a while that they work for us.

Any MP that does not work for us, for the public benefit, we don’t want.

We will have our say soon enough, and we will remember at the ballot box
those who took part in this vote on Friday. In the lead up to any election the
list of those who voted for this Bill will be republished, again and again and
again.

More MP’s excesses will be published when we find them. And
we will find them.