not bad? in britiain? you guys have it much worse there than in the US....well for now.
we're going to get the same treatment as brits very soon.
i can't really specifiy atm, but i have read countless reports of brownshirt activity, police brutality, rioting, protests, medical issues involving vaccines being forced on people (who thankfully knew not to take them)
that and the bills that they are attempting to pass such as being required to install government cameras in your home to make sure you are "raising your children properly"
...yup
Been watching the O'Reilly factor? :-D
I was talking about the craziness of some American politicians and pundits. We have a few ourselves whose perception of reality is questionable, but yours are on a different level.
Now a few words on the other things you said. It's true that Labour have been pissing all over personal freedoms and privacy recently. Fortunately, the number of people installing cameras* is a lot greater than the numbers watching them. A camera on its own can't invade your privacy; someone needs to be watching through it. Most of what the government has been trying to do is completely unfeasible, much like attempts by Australian politicians to censor the internet. The thing that's most worried me is their attempt to say what pron we can watch: f*ck you, puritan freaks.
Also, Labour only has nine months left to try to pass as many laws as possible, and Gordon Brown's authority as leader (he was almost ousted a few months ago) is so weak that Labour MPs don't worry very much about rebelling and voting against him. Why nine months left? Because Brown needs to call a general election at some time before 3rd June 2010 (since the last one was in 2005), and ATM the only thing that could stop the Tories winning would be an announcement by David Cameron that he is a paedophile or a terrorist. The Tories are way out in front of Labour in the polls; in fact, at one point earlier this year Labour became the third most popular party in the UK, overtaken by the Liberal Democrats (although I think that's changed now). Since Labour usually benefits from the first-past-the-post system, the general election will probably be closer than the popular vote, but still, their time is up. Hopefully the Conservatives won't be as bad (you know something is wrong when you hear yourself saying this
). I mean, they can't be any worse, right?
* something a lot of people who complain about CCTV in Britain forget is that the majority of cameras are in private hands, for things like home security and small businesses.
