Christopher J. Buckley

The BBC leads today with a story of great concern to anyone who holds any remote hope that Britain has not sleep-walked into a surveillance society. Ex-Communist, and current Home Secretary, John Reid blindly pontificates that these cameras will only concern those…

In the minority who will be more concerned about what they claim are civil liberties intrusions. But the vast majority of people find that their life is more upset by people who make their life a misery in the inner cities because they can’t go out and feel safe and secure in a healthy, clean environment because of a minority of people.

Britain now has more CCTV surveillance cameras than any other nation on earth – yes, even more than China and N. Korea. Well, i don’t know about anyone else, but i’m scared. This is how democracies fall into autocracies; through the subversion of democracy by the democratically-elected political ruling elite.

Please, people of the UK, vote this government out at the next election. To not do so would be a reckless injustice to what little is left of Britain’s democratic process. Already the government is re-drawing political boundaries to give their candidates unfair advantage, after having spent years trying to (misguidedly) re-haul the House Of Lords (the voice of sanity recently).

Enough is enough! You have a vote on May 2nd – use it.