PP2: Bugging Britain

Britain ranks bottom of the EU nations when it comes to respecting its citizen’s privacy and internationally is on the same level as those bulwarks of liberty, Russia and Singapore. If proof was needed it has now emerged that the Metropolitan police have been regularly bugging meetings between lawyers and their clients for years. This of course comes on top of us being the most watched nation on earth, with some ridiculous figure 4.2 million cameras operating in Britain, and that doesn’t include the ones that actually talk to you. The average Brit appears on camera 300 times a day. I really didn’t think we were that interesting.

This is all very strange for a country with a tradition of safeguarding its privacy. It is perhaps something the Conservatives might want to consider conserving. David Cameron should propose strict new laws to protect British liberties – something to go hand in hand with a strong move against the increased number of days that High Chancellor Brown wants to incarcerate people without charge.

Once again playing on the totalitarian image that Brown seems bent on painting for himself.