Amazing list of civil liberties restored:
– Reform the vetting and barring scheme
– Remove convictions of gay men for consensual acts
– DNA samples deleted for innocent people from Police databases
– Reduction to 14 days for terrorist suspects.
– Scrapping section 44 powers used to stop and search hundreds of thousands of innocent people
– Rogue wheel clamping stopped
– Schools kids no longer fingerprinted without parental consent
– Fraud trials held with juries
And these are just the headlines. Liberal Democrats in action from within the coalition.
What about control orders? Oh no they’re staying but being rebranded, you libdems really are providing some comic relief – I mean replacing curfews with “overnight residence requirements”, newspeak or what!!!
Hi Cat,
Blimey, you’re hard to please. A huge tranche of liberties in one go meeting the Lib Dem agenda and you quibble over one that’s stuck because of the coalition with tories.
This represents huge progress reversing 13 years of Labour and some Tory years liberty taking.
“huge tranche of liberties”
Yeh, schools no longer using fingerprint recognition to control access to their libraries is a real blow against big brother…
Control orders and 28 day detention were the only things that really mattered.
Hi Cat,
Understand your point which impacts ther 48 people who’ve had control orders since 2005.
Yes what is felt possible now isn’t what we thought could happen when the manifesto was written. The Lib Dem involved now has stated that in future security briefings should occur so that all parties have sufficient information so that their proposals are complete.
But internal excile has been removed from what Labour introduced and the threshold for a home secretary to impose such controls from suspecting somebody was involved in terrorism to “having reasonable grounds to believe” should improve things.