Friday, June 13, 2008

Bid for freedom

My heart sank when I got home last night to catch the tail end of Anita Anan telling us about David Davis resignation. Have we not had enough games?

When I heard him this morning however I felt a bit better

For some time it has seemed clear to me that anyone who went to the electorate on the issue of freedom would be on to a winner. There are so many complaints about infringements large & small these days, including plenty from lady columnists. And this blog

If even ladies no longer young – and yes, for the most part white - feel this way, what must it be like for others? At least it is unlikely – isn’t it? – that anyone will slap an ASBO on us or lock us up for 28/42 days

The Right to Buy was a winner for Thatcher in 1979. Although often seen in terms of property-owning democracy & having something to show for all the rent you paid, it was at least as much a winner in terms of getting the council-as-landlord off your back. Freedom to paint the front door any colour you damn well pleased & install a fitted kitchen would be a good start

Instead it goes on & on getting worse. We are even now supposed to spy upon, observe, record & report every action of every child under 5, from their first faltering step to their first, grammatically correct, letter to Father Christmas

I think this monitoring can be traced back to the same Thatcher governments attempts to make local authorities pull their socks up

Now it creeps ever onwards to keep away the bogeymen. Don’t you want to do something about paedophiles, terrorists, money-laundering drug runners, identity thieves, murderous GPs? It is the first duty of government to protect the people

Up until now we have not had any bogeywomen, as far as I can recall. We have one now. Yeshi Girma