2023-10-20
Leaving the EU in order to reestablish our national sovereignty was a good idea at the time, also the prerequisite for maintaining our traditional freedoms, but it turns out that it only served to highlight the tremendous gulf between the people's idea of freedom and our government's idea of freedom - the latter amounting to little more than the freedom to do only what we are told.
We have seen a succession of Bills trundling through Parliament in recent times (not counting the Coronavirus Act 2020 - all 348 pages of it - how long would it take to draft such a beast? - which was rushed through Parliament as an 'emergency measure' in 3 days flat):
Data Protection and Digital Information Bill
Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023
Health and Care Bill (Fluoride)
Not forgetting the UK - Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill 2019-21 which must rank as one of the most in-your-face attacks on our constitutional rule of law - so far
Most share the dubious traits of
(a) more centralisation of powers
(b) delegation to government ministers of freedom to effectively change, update, or repeal any and all aspects of the legislation by means of making "regulations". Such regulations are subject to minimal scrutiny by Parliament in so far as MPs are given a period of time to object to them, but if none object then they are carried by default.
(c) ineffective monitoring and control of abuse of the system
Thus the separation of powers between parliament (responsible for defining legislation) and ministers of the Crown (responsible for implementing legislation) is now cigarette paper thin. How anybody is supposed to keep track of such changes I do not know. For practical purposes, the government (ministers of the Crown) is now out of control.
Save Our Rights have helpfully made a presentation of the new UK GDPR measures that will (on past form) shortly be passed by Parliament. It's no surprise that the State seems to have a great interest in obtaining our data for its own purposes - purposes which are invariably accomplished by private corporations under contract to supply the State with the required services.
Will there be scope here for the misuse of our data?
And is it really true that the code of practice for CCTV operation is being abolished?
(24 minutes)
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