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Illegal electioneering by No.10 website

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Shane Greer has spotted something on the Downing Street website over here.

We all know that Labour likes to waste taxpayers’ money, but we also know they like to breach the rules (you know, like ones relating to party funding). Imagine then the joy that must have gripped Brown and his increasingly beleaguered cronies upon realising that the Downing Street website afforded them, with the assistance of some compliant civil servant(s), the opportunity to do both.

The Downing Street website, like all government websites, is of
course subject to the civil service rules pertaining to impartiality;
meaning that government websites can’t be used for party political
purposes.

Labour though have apparently decided that the rules governing impartiality weren’t ever really meant to apply to them, and so the following can be found on the Downing Street site:

What exactly is the justification for using taxpayer money to drive
traffic to the Labour Party website? Oh that’s right, Labour don’t need
one.

When clicked the
link to Brown’s “political speeches” on the Labour Party website
actually brings you to Labour’s local elections site:

You have to hand it to Labour, when they break a rule they really go
for it; not content with simply using the public purse to promote the
party they’ve taken it upon themselves to use the public purse to
actively urge people to vote for them!

And that I believe IS ILLEGAL.

Had enough yet? There is another way!

Your Life, Your Country, Your Choice.

Illegal electioneering by No.10 website

IanPJ Libertarian Party, Main Page Add you comment

Shane Greer has spotted something on the Downing Street website over here.

We all know that Labour likes to waste taxpayers’ money, but we also know they like to breach the rules (you know, like ones relating to party funding). Imagine then the joy that must have gripped Brown and his increasingly beleaguered cronies upon realising that the Downing Street website afforded them, with the assistance of some compliant civil servant(s), the opportunity to do both.

The Downing Street website, like all government websites, is of
course subject to the civil service rules pertaining to impartiality;
meaning that government websites can’t be used for party political
purposes.

Labour though have apparently decided that the rules governing impartiality weren’t ever really meant to apply to them, and so the following can be found on the Downing Street site:

What exactly is the justification for using taxpayer money to drive
traffic to the Labour Party website? Oh that’s right, Labour don’t need
one.

When clicked the
link to Brown’s “political speeches” on the Labour Party website
actually brings you to Labour’s local elections site:

You have to hand it to Labour, when they break a rule they really go
for it; not content with simply using the public purse to promote the
party they’ve taken it upon themselves to use the public purse to
actively urge people to vote for them!

And that I believe IS ILLEGAL.

Had enough yet? There is another way!

Your Life, Your Country, Your Choice.

The abuse of RIPA

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When RIPA was passed in 2000, only nine organisations, such as the
police and security services, were allowed to use it, but that number
has risen to 792, including 474 councils, the Daily Telegraph tells us.

In 2006, more than 1,000 applications per day were being made to use
Ripa powers. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (Ripa) allows councils and others to authorise surveillance, obtain
phone records and details of email traffic from personal computers
(though not their contents) and obtain details of websites individuals
are logging on to.

It is logical to assume that in 2008, there are many more abuses of this disgusting law.

Now we have WAKEY WAKEY, Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the Commons home
affairs committee, who said: “I am astonished that this very serious
legislation is being misused in this way in cases which seem to be
petty and vindictive. We have just completed an inquiry into the
surveillance society and we have noted that there has been a huge
growth in the use of these laws.

Was Keith Vaz is so stupidly naive that he didn't believe that such powers would be abused when this law was first passed. He and the rest of the parliamentary morons were warned at the time yet they still voted for it, including most of the Conservative and LibDem front benches and members.

Now this is only 1 law which this government have introduced over the past 11 years. What of the other 26,000 new laws introduced which are probably being abused on a daily basis?

Everyone has the right to respect for his private and
family life, his home and his correspondence.
Article 8(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The extent of intrusion using RIPA is outlined by MagnaCartaplus.org

Who is allowed to spy on you using RIPA is outlined here, and includes bodies such as The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, The Food Standards Agency, The Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce, The Post Office and the NHS. So, just about anyone then.

Britain has become a “surveillance state”, and we liken the tactics
employed by councils and others to the Stasi secret police in the former East
Germany, and this must be stopped.

Like most of the new laws passed by this government, which unjustly govern our lives totally, they are disproportionate to needs and should be abolished forthwith.

There is another way!

Your Life, Your Country, Your Choice.