Everything we say and do is now monitored by Big Brother. Even our Twitter accounts are now subject to review by the authorities – just in case we tweet something that might be considered naughty. Like a joke that sound like a terrorist threat:

Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!

This tweeter was then arrested and questioned for six hours.
How absurd it is. Why would any real terrorist be so stupid as to …

Do you remember Information Sharing Orders, to allow Ministers to override the Data Protection Act by fiat, smuggled into the “Coroners and Criminal Justice Bill” at the end of last year.

Well, Plan B to circumvent the Data Protection Act may have surfaced: rather than sharing data we will all have an “Integrated Citizen Record”.

The appearance of ID cards has been finalised – and they will not feature the Union Flag because it “may upset members of the nationalist community in Northern Ireland”. It is ridiculous.
However, it really doesn’t matter – the ID cards will be scrapped as soon as we get a Conserative government (which we will hopefully get after the next election within a year). And then they will confined the scrapheap of history, where they belong. Unfortunately taking a significant amount of taxpayer’s money with them.
This authoritarian Labour government has systematically …

No, we don’t live in a Big Brother state at all. How could we ever get such an idea?!

First we have to pay for the privilege let the government hold all of our personal details in one giant database and give us a laminated card reducing our life to a magnetic strip. Then we have tthing changes and we don’t tell them asap:

Women who change their name after marriage could face fines of up to £1,000 if they fail to tell the government, under new proposals.
Anyone with a biometric passport or ID card will be required to notify the National Identity Register of changes to the personal data …

The Lords are our saving grace, yet again. This undemocratic but venerable institution is doing its level best to save us from the authoritarian tendencies of Big Brother this Labour government.

The government has been defeated in the House of Lords over the issue of keeping people’s DNA and fingerprints on the police national database.
Peers backed a Tory amendment calling for specific guidelines to help people seeking to have their details removed from the database by 161 votes to 150.
But ministers are unlikely to redraft the legislation, arguing that existing public …

This morning, all 646 MPs in the House of Commons will be receiving their copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, with a similar message as in the copy I sent to my allocated MP:

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Two days ago, there were 12 MPs yet to be nabbed for the “1984 aint an instruction manual” campaign to send a copy of George Orwell’s most famous book to every MP in the Commons.
But now all MPs have been accounted for. 646 copies of 1984 will arrive at the Commons on November 5, one to be delivered to each MPs office.
This campaign has been organised by LPUK, because our MPs need to understand that they are our rights and we won’t let them be taken away with a fight.

On …

There are twelve MPs yet to be allocated a Nineteen Eighty-Four.
I signed up over a week ago to this plan to send a copy of George Orwell’s 1984 to every single MP:

This book cost less than a fiver; are you prepared to spend the price of a couple of pints for your freedom?
On November 5th 1605 Guido Fawkes, ‘the only man to enter Parliament with honest intent’, sought to end the repressive rule of a King from Scotland who brought repression to the Country. The rule of the Stuarts ended …

It is obvious that one area can only hold so many people, but this is an impossible thing to keep to:

This Government isn’t going to allow the population to go up to 70 million.

And how, precisely, could they stop it? Are they going to adopt a Chinese-esque breeding-prevention programme? Or is it going to be on a one-death, one conception basis?
If have other major problems with the rest of Phil Woolas’ plans as well – such as the idea that we don’t need immigrants to keep the economy going and …