Sunday, January 15, 2006
The Paranoid PM.
If Tony Blair gets his way, anyone phoning their constituency MP will have to consider the possibility that any conversation they have with the elected member may be monitored by MI5, a situation that will surely enrage MP's of every political persuasion, and should be of great concern to members of the public and organizations who expect to be able to communicate with their MP in complete confidence.
Blair wants to give security services the powers to bug the telephones of MP's, overturning a forty year ban on the practice, a step that will do away with any pretense of Britain having a free parliament. To try to justify this on the grounds of security and the prevention of terrorism is absurd, and the move should be resisted by all as an attempt by a paranoid Prime Minister to assert his control-freakery even further in a country he has increasingly turned into a secret state with little regard for the civil liberties of its population.
It is common knowledge that Tony Blair, nearing the end of his time as Prime Minister, is scrabbling round frantically trying to create a last minute legacy for himself. In truth, he's dreaming, and he's too late. The legacy, or obituary, is already cast in stone.
A control-freak who wasted his premiership on an illegal and disastrous war, based on lies, in the wrong country, and the architect of the British police state.
But then I would say that, being a socialist who used to support the Labour Party.......
Blair wants to give security services the powers to bug the telephones of MP's, overturning a forty year ban on the practice, a step that will do away with any pretense of Britain having a free parliament. To try to justify this on the grounds of security and the prevention of terrorism is absurd, and the move should be resisted by all as an attempt by a paranoid Prime Minister to assert his control-freakery even further in a country he has increasingly turned into a secret state with little regard for the civil liberties of its population.
It is common knowledge that Tony Blair, nearing the end of his time as Prime Minister, is scrabbling round frantically trying to create a last minute legacy for himself. In truth, he's dreaming, and he's too late. The legacy, or obituary, is already cast in stone.
A control-freak who wasted his premiership on an illegal and disastrous war, based on lies, in the wrong country, and the architect of the British police state.
But then I would say that, being a socialist who used to support the Labour Party.......
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