Cameron pledges war on 'Big Brother' state

**-:Undertaker:-** · 25-06-2009, 08:11 PM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...nt-voters.html

Conservative leader David Cameron warned today that Labour has created a 'control state' with sweeping powers to intrude into people's private lives.

Officials now had more than 1,000 reasons to knock on people's doors and demand to enter their home, he said.
That was more like a 'foreign dictatorship or bygone age' than a modern democracy.

Mr Cameron also attacked the erosion of the right to trial by jury, ID cards, blanket stop and search powers, creeping extensions to the national DNA database and extradition to other countries without evidence of wrongdoing.

Mr Cameron, in a speech at Imperial College, London, said: 'Today we are in danger of living in a control state. 'Almost a million innocent citizens are caught in the web of the biggest DNA database in the world - larger than that of any dictatorship. 'Hundreds of shadowy powers allow officials to force their way past your front door, and soon we will be forced to surrender our fingerprints, eye scans and personal information to intrusive compulsory ID cards.

'Every month over a thousand surveillance operations are carried out, not just by law enforcement agencies but by other public bodies like councils and quangos. 'And the tentacles of the state can even rifle through your bins for juicy information.' Civil rights groups warn the steady erosion of traditional freedoms and the increasing use of surveillance have left Britain on the brink of becoming a 'Big Brother' society. Almost 800 public bodies have been given permission to carry out surveillance and intercept communications.

Councils launched nearly 10,000 spying missions last year, including surveillance of petty offences like dog fouling and even under-age smoking. Section 44 of the Terrorism Act, which gives the police power to stop and search any person on the street, was used over 120,000 times last year, a threefold increase on the year before. Yet only one per cent of the searches conducted led to arrest, let alone changes or convictions. Mr Cameron said that powers were being so seriously misused that one woman had been stopped for walking on a cycle path.

This is good news, let us just hope that when in power the Conservatives roll back the powers of the state which Labour have imposed on our lives, chips in wheelie bins and losing our personal information on trains etc. It is worse than the Soviet Union, as David Cameron said we have something like more records than any dictatorship.

Technologic · 25-06-2009, 08:21 PM

I like cameron, he's a hell of a lot more charismatic than the gelatinous blob that currently rules.

**-:Undertaker:-** · 25-06-2009, 08:28 PM

When he is like this, he makes me think he could be a strong leader like Margaret Thatcher was, hopefully he is anyway, for the countrys sake.

Technologic · 25-06-2009, 08:29 PM

S'almost like he's our Obama

**GommeInc** · 25-06-2009, 08:43 PM

I hope he pulls us out of these rediculous EU rules like the oe imposed on Microsoft and the pension problem... The EU in itself is becoming a control state... National freedom is dying, I feel sorry for other EU countries

**efq** · 25-06-2009, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by Technologic

I like cameron, he's a hell of a lot more charismatic than the gelatinous blob that currently rules.

Ditto and he can give a hell of a speech.

Sammeth. · 25-06-2009, 09:03 PM

The Daily Mail is an awful newspaper lol. But anyway, politicians are all the same. They'll tell you what they think you want to here, and then once they're in control they don't follow through.