I Spy

I have lost count of the number of times something I have mentioned in Council over the years was scoffed at by the (ever-dwindling number of) Labour councillors, only to be proven true a little while later. One such has been the warnings I gave on the creeping Police State of surveillance, intrusion and control via the police and security services.

The latest news is that the pilot for the Government's already-known scheme to monitor all our telephone calls and emails is now going ahead. The money has apparently already gone to GCHQ to put this into being. As commenters to the linked article have said, we are becoming ever more like the old East Germany.

As always with these things (including 42-day detentions without charge, Identity Cards and the rest) there is a ready excuse for "needing" to introduce the new measures. In reality, these are indeed just excuses, and the real agenda is — as some of us knew all along — furtherance of the Common Purpose plan to introduce an oppressive Socialist SuperState via the EU.

Gordon Brown's Big Eye and Ears have been all too willing to push all these initiatives forward, just as Tony Blair did before Brown became PM. They are both completely guilty of participating in and promoting the Orwellian society that now firmly exists in this country. There can no longer be even the slightest doubt of this, especially since it became known that Britain has a greater level of surveillance of its citizens than any other country in the world.

We are the very worst, bar none, and getting worse with every new proposal from the Labour Government — though they are acting largely as a fully-compliant conduit for the Common Purpose/EU plans.

Perhaps we can learn lessons from history, to find ways to ensure we can overcome all of this before it becomes so firmly entrenched that only a full-blown revolution could shift it. With some now thinking that Gordon Brown might engineer a suitable crisis when the General Election is due so that he can postpone it indefinitely, we really need to find some way to deal with this now. There might not be another opportunity.

Ideas, anyone?