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Rambo Reid wants yet another Criminal (in)Justice Bill, with yet more draconian liberty destroying powers for the police.

Officers in England and Wales will be allowed to temporarily throw out nuisance neighbours, whether they are council tenants, private renters or even own the properties.

Notice there is no mention of arrest or trial. The police think you are up to no good so then they throw you out on the streets. Rather different from the way that the founder of the modern police service saw their role.

Police should always direct their action strictly towards their functions and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary.

Of course we are told not to worry because these powers will only be used rarely and in extreme cases. Pull the other one, once this power is introduced it will be used more and more for crimes that it was never supposed to cover. Just as the Nat West Three where deported for doing something in this country which is not considered a crime in this country under the terrible extradition treaty that Labour negotiated supposedly for dealing with terrorists.

Lets hope Gordon Brown shuffles him away from the home office before this abomination can hit the statute books, but even then there is the real possibility that this Bill will not go when he does having already been tried out in Scotland and so will probably find its way south sooner rather than later.