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Comment by maeil

15 days ago

From the macrumors thread:

> So much for personal liberties. I'd like to give Labour the benefit of the doubt and assume this is a holdover from the last government knowing how fast the civil service actually works but given the Tory 3.0 plan they are going with I wouldn't put it passed them.

>We didn't vote for this.

You very much did vote for this, you voted for Labour under Keir Starmer and he did not particularly hide his being tory-lite. If one is surprised by this they must not have paid any attention before voting.

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blibble  15 days ago

quite why Labour deserve the benefit of the doubt on anything authoritarian I don't know

Labour was behind:

    - forced key disclosure (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000), still in force
    - 72 day detention without charge (Terrorism Act 2006), defeated before it became an Act
    - national identity register and mandatory id cards (Identity Cards Act 2006), ripped up by the next Tory government
    - various attempts at removal of ancient right to trial by jury (partially successful)

they are as bad, if not worse than the tories

scrlk  15 days ago

Have people forgotten the authoritarian tendencies of the 1997–2010 Labour governments? This is nothing new.

alt227  14 days ago

Its crazy how people still think one political party will be 'better' than another! I guess they must be young. After you have seen 10 or so government terms play out you soon learn.

mistercheph  15 days ago

Yeah yeah vote for the other clowns next time, they'll definitely roll back these totalitarian policies :)