Comments on: A glimpse of the future - the light bulb police and higher Council tax http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/03/14/a-glimpse-of-the-future-the-light-bulb-police-and-higher-council-tax/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:32:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Geoff http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/03/14/a-glimpse-of-the-future-the-light-bulb-police-and-higher-council-tax/#comment-1118 Geoff Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:30:13 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=152#comment-1118 All of your points are frighteningly true - as are the ones raised by Stuart Fairney. Can you please give a guarantee that when we get in at the next election we will dismantle this Orwellian structure piece by piece and return to something resembling rationality and common sense? We need a bonfire of regulations - not rhetoric that we fail to follow up. Where are the Shadow Cabinet statements and commitments to end this sort of thing? If they are being made then they are not being made vocally enough to reach the politically active - let alone to the voter-in-the-street. All of your points are frighteningly true - as are the ones raised by Stuart Fairney.

Can you please give a guarantee that when we get in at the next election we will dismantle this Orwellian structure piece by piece and return to something resembling rationality and common sense?

We need a bonfire of regulations - not rhetoric that we fail to follow up. Where are the Shadow Cabinet statements and commitments to end this sort of thing? If they are being made then they are not being made vocally enough to reach the politically active - let alone to the voter-in-the-street.

]]> By: Brian Tomkinson http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/03/14/a-glimpse-of-the-future-the-light-bulb-police-and-higher-council-tax/#comment-1117 Brian Tomkinson Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:36:46 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=152#comment-1117 A very unappealing prospect but the way Cameron is talking can we really expect any salvation from the Conservatives? A very unappealing prospect but the way Cameron is talking can we really expect any salvation from the Conservatives?

]]> By: Stuart Fairney http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/03/14/a-glimpse-of-the-future-the-light-bulb-police-and-higher-council-tax/#comment-1111 Stuart Fairney Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:38:18 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=152#comment-1111 So if I understand the plans correctly: - They'll monitor everywhere I go, by means of their road-pricing GPS bug, - Make me carry ID so I can prove who I am, - Check every transaction I make by accessing my credit card records, - Arrest me if I cite passages of the bible, - Insist my kids are taught gay fairy stories in primary school, and call me a hate criminal if I object - Send questionnaires to my 12 year old asking if she has penetrative sex when she gets drunk, Whilst all the time taxing me to death, sending my sons to die in pointless wars they won't participate in themselves and regulating and restricting me at will, and saying "Well, if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear" even though they manage to get the attorney general to slap injunctions on anything they don't like the look of which incriminates them. So if I understand the plans correctly:

- They’ll monitor everywhere I go, by means of their road-pricing GPS bug,
- Make me carry ID so I can prove who I am,
- Check every transaction I make by accessing my credit card records,
- Arrest me if I cite passages of the bible,
- Insist my kids are taught gay fairy stories in primary school, and call me a hate criminal if I object
- Send questionnaires to my 12 year old asking if she has penetrative sex when she gets drunk,

Whilst all the time taxing me to death, sending my sons to die in pointless wars they won’t participate in themselves and regulating and restricting me at will, and saying “Well, if you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear” even though they manage to get the attorney general to slap injunctions on anything they don’t like the look of which incriminates them.

]]> By: Kit http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/03/14/a-glimpse-of-the-future-the-light-bulb-police-and-higher-council-tax/#comment-1107 Kit Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:55:32 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=152#comment-1107 Maybe we need to hand over a set of house keys to the government just in case they want to pop in when we are out? Maybe we need to hand over a set of house keys to the government just in case they want to pop in when we are out?

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