Having said that, we have a party political system in this country, I don't hold any particular allegiance but must admit that I'm currently hearing good things from the Tories.
I've previously said that the Tories have made some promising noises but nothing concrete, I now read the transcript of a speech by David Cameron where he makes some bold statements:-
- The next Conservative government will revoke the unjustified and unreasonable powers that let people enter your home without your permission.
- We will change the law that allows councils to snoop on people for trivial matters.
- We will review the use of the Terrorism Act's Section 44, and the stop and search powers contained within it.
- We will change the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to strengthen the right to trial by jury.
- And we will review the operation of the Extradition Act - and the US/UK extradition treaty - to make sure it is even-handed and works both ways.
- ... the next Conservative Government will scrap the Contact Point database of children's details.
- We will scrap the ID Card scheme.
- And we will remove innocent people's records from the DNA database.
- ... because there is no complete list that can tell us exactly what data the government collects, we will create a new 'right to data' so that further datasets can be requested by the public.
All good stuff, I'm sure he can go further if pushed.......
Most of all I want to see all this, and more, written down in the election manifesto and actually becoming reality if they win the next election.
It's been a long time coming, maybe the politicians themselves are starting to realise that they've gone too far and the people will not wear it any longer.
Raed the speech at:-
http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2009/06/David_Cameron_Giving_power_back_to_the_people.aspx
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