Freedom - the party's offerings

It is amazing how in the last 13 years of Labour our freedoms have been slowly eroded. We have become truly a surveillance society, with movement, speech and association curtailed.

Here's what the different parties promise for the future:

Liberal Demoncrats - 13 points

Introduce a freedom bill,
Regulate CCTV,
Reduce local council surveillance,
Restore the right to protest,
Protect free speech,
Offer guarantees to investigative journalism,
Scrap ID cards,
End plans to spy on email and internet connections,
Scrap ContactPoint,
Reduce pre-charge detention to 14 days
Scrap secret evidence.
Limit the DNA database and
Wholehearted support for the HRA.

That is what I call an agenda. Hope they get into power and can do it.

Conservatives - 8 points

No ID cards
Cancel ContactPoint children's database
Scrap vetting and barring scheme
Curtail council surveillance powers
Give more power to the information commissioner,
Introducing privacy impact assessments on new legislation.
Change the law in respect to the DNA database,
Replace the Human Rights Act with a bill of rights.

Not a bad offering, but... could do more

Labour - only 2 points

Take the DNA profiles of children off the database
Tightened the rules around the use of surveillance

That's it? God I hope these guys get thrown out, I am fed up with super-state controlling me.