Nothing to hide ... plenty to fear

The police are trawling for arrests, and thanks to Labour everything is arrestable, in order to fill up their DNA database. Accoring to the Times 'three quarters of young black men are on the database'! Almost all of whom will have done nothing wrong, but will still not be able to get their DNA off the database and now join the ranks of the 'guilty innocents' who are tainted by getting to close to the police. This can have serious repercussions, like this story of a high flying lawyer forced to work as a stable hand after she was sacked because she was on the database, despite doing nothing wrong.

Another step on the EU's path

Just a little something for those that dispute the claim that the EU is steadily marching towards statehood.

The Queen's Speech

Today is Gordon Brown's party political broadcast, oops I mean the Queen's Speech. In the past this was kept in such secrecy that leaking it could be a resigning matter. Not today though, and not just because no Labour Minister ever resigns for anything. This Queen's Speech has been so heavily trailed that it is perfectly possible to create a detailed critique of it even before it has been said and The Adam Smith Institute has done just that.

The War on Fish

The EU's War on Fish continues. They won't give in until the oceans have been cleared of this flappy menace.

Piracy

Posted from my phone, hence no spell check, however this story was rather more interesting than the rest that are circulating as Labour gasps its last autharitarian breaths. It was this rather depressing story about piracy on the high seas.

The crew of a UK military ship watched as a British couple were taken hostage by Somali pirates but were ordered not to open fire, it has emerged.

While an RFA it still had armed men on board (making it more powerful than the 'mighty' HMS Endevour that lefties often claim could scare off the entire Agentine military) and could at least scared them off.

Perhaps it could be something to do with this story from last year about how the Navy has been ordered not engage pirates because of the worries to do with the Human Eights Act.

What really is the point of having a blue water navy if it cannot protect our shipping? The reason that the USA formed it's navy was to protect American merchant ships from pirates, the operating base being Algeria rather than Somalia back then.

The Illiberal Conspiracy

A couple bits from the Illiberal Conspiracy.

First: Why don't pensions critics attack the fat-cats? Because how a private business spends its money is its business, but how the public sector spends my money is my business, perhaps?

Second their 10 point plan to save Labour ... from ever winning office again. It shouldn't really be surprising anymore that the ironically titled 'liberal conspiracy' would promote something as illiberal as getting bureaucrats to control peoples wages, and more and higher taxes, plus the mass expropriation of wealth.

In a way that this hodge-podge of higher taxes and more state control is actually being promoted in connection to somebody that is a possibility for next Labour leader is a good thing. It means that they are going to lurch to the left so far that it will be at least a decade before they are in the least bit electable, and that means at more than a decade before the time that people can be held without charge will be increased.

Insanity

ID Cards excuse de jour

The excuse de jour for ID Cards is changing, again. This time it is to help with with CRB checks, or why won't somebody think of the chiiiiildren! Not that CRB checks are much more than a invasive tax on voluntary work with an alarmingly high false positive rate. If a mind probe existed Labour would probably make thinking about anybody under 18 illegal as well.