Update on the surveillance society

Former Member

apparently the old-bill have taken up model-helicopter flying in the fight against drunken teenagers and other miscreants;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/6676809.stm

Lol, I can just imagine how they'll counter this; "Long-ting blood, dem tings in da sky is bake; lose da shank an get ya'self an EMP, get me?"

Former Member

I was more concerned by the move to exempt MP's from the Freedom of Information Act.

Former Member

I was more concerned by the move to exempt MP's from the Freedom of Information Act.

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Thats a very good point, I saw that. For those who don't know, the story can be viewed here;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6667431.stm

Means that we can't peek into their expenses anymore, along with a host of other things.

Former Member

budda wrote: »

I was more concerned by the move to exempt MP's from the Freedom of Information Act.

I was going to post about that, but figured that a string of expletives wasn't much of a debate really.

ETA Perhaps we could ask the Police to fly their Helicopter over Parliament, that way we can keep an eye on what our MPs are up to. Afterall if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear...

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Man Of Kent wrote: »

ETA Perhaps we could ask the Police to fly their Helicopter over Parliament, that way we can keep an eye on what our MPs are up to. Afterall if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear...

But they are different clearly, they need to have secrets to be able to goven properly, we cant have secrets or we'd just break the law.

Former Member

Sounds like a reasonable idea, certainly a lot cheaper than using the helicopter, although the helo is very useful at night and for actually chasing the miscreants.