Thousands sign petition opposing government’s ‘toxic’ Bill of Rights
“The public, quite rightly, is very concerned that the government is putting themselves above the law and making themselves untouchable.”
“The public, quite rightly, is very concerned that the government is putting themselves above the law and making themselves untouchable.”
Where was the Tory outrage over the attacks on liberty over photo ID for elections or the attacks on the right to protest?
Lord Pannick led the charge against May’s Brexiteer Cabinet in a debate over keeping EU’s human rights charter in British law – and won.
Border control measures are being imposed on virtually every area of life in Britain
On Monday the shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper gave a speech at demos.
The United States of America is not one for letting things go. So when Edward Snowden – a 29-year old CIA employee seconded to the NSA – leaked classified information on highly-secretive surveillance systems, he will have known that his days of anonymity and free-living were numbered.
The truth is we will all be worse off if these proposals become law. The prospect of legal intervention is the surest way of securing a society where respect for human rights, equality and due process guides the behaviour of our decision-makers. This botched attempt to get justice on the cheap would put justice out of reach for all but the most powerful.
Whilst blanket surveillance will inevitably bring some law enforcement gains, monitoring of an entire population smacks of authoritarianism, and will undermine the proud reputation for liberty we have developed as the oldest unbroken democracy in the world.
An extnesion of State snooping and surveillance powers simply cannot be allowed to happen on the Lib Dems’ watch, says the Social Liberal Forum’s Prateek Buch.
Isabella Sankey, director of policy at the human rights group Liberty, explains the fatal flaws behind the police tactic of kettling.