The Stirrer site has information on an “astonishing scale of Walsall snooping”.
Walsall Council has been Conservative controlled for years now.
What was the name of that bloke who was the Shadow Home Secretary who resigned his seat claiming we lived under…. “the ever-intrusive power of the state on our lives, the loss of privacy, the loss of freedom and a steady attrition undermining the rule of law.”?
Perhaps instead of embarking on newspaper stunts he would have been better employed talking to his Conservative colleagues to ensure they set an example across the country.
Or could this be yet one more example of say one thing in opposition, do another in power?
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Once again legislation with not enough safeguards, and yes how big is the iceberg.
But better still what is the cost and who does the snooping, some private firm with connections no doubt!
That was certainly the case when I worked there, John. They used to use one man and his dog private detective agencies to film staff taking their kids to school when they were off work sick, and record what time they opened the bedroom curtains in the morning.
Mind you, as the private defectives were even more useless than the personnel officers (or ‘account managers’ as they pretentiously called them) it was usually a doddle getting people off a disciplinary charge. Still a diabolic intrusion into people’s lives though.
DD might also like to ask George Osborne how his wonderfully original (and not at all nicked from HMG) scheme to reward recyclers would work without “council bureaucrats snooping into every citizen’s bins”.
So because David Davis didn’t know about and tell a Conswervative-run council not to abuse the sweeping, illiberal powers that the Liebour government has given them under RIPA, it’s not Liebour that is at fault for enacting such a hideous piece of legislation, but the fault of the Shadow Home Secretary.
Bob, you could think yourself through a cork screw.