UK Liberty
A blog on issues relating to liberty in the UK. “I take the view that it is part of being a good citizen, proving who you are, day in day out” - Andy Burnham, Home Office Minister. “Unfortunately we were unable to maintain the legislation which we wanted to do which would give us the power to detain people [without trial].” - Tony Blair, Prime Minister. “we should see an identity card, like a passport, in country, if you like” - Meg Hillier, Home Office Minister. “People who hope to be due for re-election in two years’ time are not the best people to trust with the liberty of the individual.” Alistair Carmichael MP
RSS Feed- JCHR - still no case for 42 day detention without charge
- A five billion pound scheme to allow us to carry one bit of paper instead of two
- High Court dismisses Commons appeal against release of MPs’ expenses
- Crewe and Nantwich Labour campaign xenophobic and dishonest
- Police libel Channel 4, public pays
- MPs don’t want to tell us how they spend our money
- Farce
- CCTV doesn’t work as well as we thought
- Yet another unlawful immigration rule
- Let’s have more transparency in lobbying
