Many losses have been to do with our private life since 1997:

not being able to smoke in bars

not being able to speak on the mobile whilst driving and increasingly not being able to smoke whilst driving either (at the moment it's at police discretion)

tobacco advertising and sponsorship

hunting with hounds

smacking

fur farming

fizzy drinks in schools

using fireworks late at night

children being out alone in the evening

live entertainment

In thruth, all absolutley true. Well meaning fools rushing in to 'save everybody from themselves' and the 'Big Cruel World' end up implementing 'half baked' legislation that any future Petty Minded Vindictive government will use, and use to the full.

Truly was Mr Blair, and now Mr Brown - are they they 'New Big Brother?' All this legislation must be repealed by the Conservatives at the next General election, or 'down the pan we will all go!'

The spouses of Brtish citizens resident in Thailand are denied a free visa upon demand to visit the UK and instead have to make representations to the embassy in Bangkok in person, even if you are 1000klm away and if accepted have to pay a large fee for the privelige of visiting their spouses country, meanwhile every Pole and his dog gets to come to the UK for free as do any Americans, Australians Canadians etc. you get the picture....

The irony, if a Brit approaches any other EU country they get a free visa upon receipt of a marriage cert.

So, massive discrimination against a section of British citizens and their families that never gets publicised, maybe it's because the Brits concerned are mainly white and what hope have whites today, not being a minority, which is what counts I'm told.

Eavedropping on emails and telephone conversations including 'Scanning' of emails for particular words. It will shortly be possible to scan 'web browsing' on a massive scale.

Yes I would agree that NU Labour [New Marxist Peril Party] under B'Liar and now under Pa McHasbeen Brown are the most useless, control-freaked out government the UK has had the missfortunate to have since the end of WW2. During 30 or so years of IRA terrorism, no UK government, Conservative or Labour ever passed the legislation we have now.

Under the current legislation, anyone who the Govenment decides is a 'Threat' like Mr Walter Wolfgang a WW2 survivor, gets treated like he was an International Criminal. If I or anyone complains to a Government Quango, Local Government by Enail or letter, then we can be deemed as 'Criminals' for harrassing poor Civil Servants or MPs. What has this coutnry descended to.

Nu Labour [ NU Peril Party] have enacted more legislation in 10 years than any other Labour or Conservative government has in the past 40 years or so. Why? Why Now? And just what is wrong with Mr Browns NU Labour Party -- are they truly infected with 'Collective Control Freakism'? Or are they all suffering from 'Big Shotism' and 'Massive Egos?'

Once upon a time, perhaps in my imagination, the UK was a byword for human rights. However, this brief period of freedom, between Wilson and Thatcher (hag extraoridaire) the UK has lapsed back into the swamp of illiberalism that has characterised most of its history. The important thing is to believe in the myth of freedom, so recently debunked in the US, and insist upon increasing it by fighting against all the little maggots who are busily eating it away. The key fact is that politicians and public servants are just that, servants of the people. If they do not act accordingly then roll out the tumbrils.

An interesting list but what about the omission?

The most glaring being the loss of Freedom of Speech at Work.

Take the case of Karen Reissmann a Psychiatric Nurse for 25 years and Trade Union rep,she was sacked last year by the appalling Manchester Mental Health Care Trust. Her crime was to voice her concerns about the privatisation of Mental Health Services and the affect upon vulnerable patients of reorganisations.

The gagging of workers happening all over the country and especially in the NHS where catch all "breach of contract", "bringing the Trust into disrepute", "Compromising the Trust" etc is used to shut up anyone who speaks out. Flouting any ideas that we are entitled to free speech.

The gutless Labour Party encourages it of course.

I am surprised that Mr Porter does not take up these most important breaches of civil liberties.

Then again Mr Porter never mentions the anti Trade Union Laws, that basically remove the right to strike whenever and in support of whomsoever we chose.

Could there be some class bias in Mr Porters choice of laws one rule for the Liberal intelligentsia and the wealthy and another for the many working people?

How about English people being stripped of the right to vote on policies for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland; while voters in those countries retain the right to vote on English matters? Concomitant to that: English people being deprived of democratically accountable government, as they can no longer vote out all those responsible for making laws and policies that apply to England alone.

David, aka Britology Watch

During a recent research project on behalf of the Ministry of Justice Professor C Thomas let slip the comment that the Department may consider embedding monitors in the jury suite during trial deliberations by the jury. Sinister, or what? Can you imagine how twelve jurors, good and true, would be inhibited by the presence of 'the government man'? The very fact that the comment was actually made is further indication of this governments determination to control every aspect of our lives, including the dispensation of thoughtful judgement on others. There are so many questions that this raises that it is impossible to articulate here other than to say that this idea must be campaigned against.

Thanks gmonk, very helpful. It is imp to be alert to what indeed might be a softening up. Anthony

Anthony: Sorry, there is no link on this comment as far as I am aware. The only thing I can say is that this actually happened, I was one of the excercise jurors in the jury suite where this occurred. I have e-mailed Jon Bright giving him the pertinanent details. I also e-mailed Tony Benn who gave me advice on the subject. Further to this I wrote a note to the Professor in the hope that she might give a response. This she has, to date, failed to do. It is, of course, quite possible that the comment was simply a musing of the good lady to sound out the representatives of justice and learn their feelings on the matter. However, and this is what worries me, she is close to those in the Ministry and must have a pretty clear idea of their mindset and if it was a feeler it must have had the approval of these people. Noting the very nature and objectives of this website it seemed to me to be appropriate to write in and also to highlight, once again, just how untrustworthy this particular bunch of politicians are turning out to be. Many of our freedoms have been subverted and all in the name of New Labour's obsession with globalisation and "modernity", in effect Blair's war cry.

gmonk: can you give us a link or reference to this. Many thanks

Anthony

The right to free tertiary education?

See tuition / top-up fees timeline.

Introduced by people who all benefited from free university education and grants.

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I don't see any reference here to the 2003 UK/US Extradition treaty, which effectively makes UK citizens liable to US law and extradition to the USA without the need for prima facie evidence being placed before a UK court (but not, of course, vice versa).

This treaty was put in place via an Order in Council without Parliamentary oversight or debate.

I believe Nu labour has repealed all laws on treason because it was an offence to sign away the monarch's legitmate powers to another government or authorty.

If any member of the government had signed away these powers to Brussells whilst these laws were in force the signatories would have been guilty of treason

as adults we've lost alot of rights, but what about children and young people who can't vote?...under ASB legislation, they've....

lost the right to be outsite in groups of more than 2 people,

can be dispersed by the police

will have comitted a crime if they break conditions of their ASBO, that, as mentioned above, can be completely based on hearsay.

and if they're over 12, can have their photo published in a newspaper, along with conditions of their ASBO, encouraging the public to report breaches of the conditions...

What about the right to vote for true democratic political representation? As far as the English go, they've been politically disenfranchised for a decade!

What about the right to drink in our own English pubs?

What about the right to bring your kids up as you see fit?

No not noise control but control by noise.

What next?

'Mosquito to bite back against yobs

Police in the Staffordshire Moorlands have been using their lates weapon in the fight against anti-social behaviour.

The Mosquito device - which emits a high-ptched whistle has been installed outside business premises at Werrington following successful deployment of the device in Brown Edge and Endon.

The use of the Mosquito has resulted in a reduction in nuisance behaviour in the Moorlands and after buying one of the devices the police have bought three more.

The location at Werrington which is being kept secret has been chosen as a result of complaints from residents and businesses.

Inspector Mark Rigby, head of Cheadle Police, which includes Werrington, said: "It has had some success, but not 100%.'

http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/deterrent_news_27.html

Would we be in this trouble of we still had the right to bear arms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gk9sABtJxM&eurl=http://www.wearechange.org.uk/

We British need to Unite.

Birth Certificates, the Global Elite Own you and your children.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lOSgS9odK8s&feature=related

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