Daily Mail out of touch with reality

Friday, 11 July 2008 10:27

The headline reads "Google Spies of Your Door" - the writers, David Derbyshire and Arthur Martin then go on to condemn plans by Google to implement their Street View service as a 'gross invasion of privacy'.

The article is written in alarmist terms that sounds like they are intended to whip up bad feeling against Google and its service. Don't these people know that the UK is the home of surveillance where there is one CCTV camera for every 14 people. Every person in the country will be photographed at least 300 times every day as they do about their business. The Google system takes one spanshot and makes that available. This is an alarmist story. The real threat to our privacy comes not from services like this but from the government, and Labour in particular.

We should all remember that Labour is the party of the left, and that in its extreme form that's communism and state control of everything.

The present labour government has sliced away our liberties and freedoms with great relish, giving more and more power to petty officials and encouraging snooping and tale telling. The Daily Mail should get things into perspective and look at what the government is doing and then they would see the real threats.

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Drugs in prisons and airport security

Tuesday, 08 July 2008 08:09

A recent report says that it's impractical to prevent drugs entering our prisons. At first sight there doesn't seem much connection between prisons and airports. The connection is security - or rather the lack of it. Our government imposes very strict rules at airports telling us what we can and can't take onto aircraft. We all know that it doesn't really make us any safer. If the same authorities can't prevent drugs from entering prisons then exactly the same can be said about airports, where you have a lot more people on the move.

Airport security is not about preventing certain things being taken onto aircraft. It's about control and stress. Putting the population into a position where the government has power and control over them. Giving power to small-minded petty officials who enjoy stressing people and taking knitting needles off old ladies, or toys off children.

 

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Taxation of energy saving is wrong

Monday, 07 July 2008 15:00

We have a government that says we should save energy - a good thing. So why do they make it more expensive that it needs to be by charging the full rate of VAT on energy saving materials, products and measures?

Here are some of the things that should be free of VAT to encourage us to use more of them

  • Cavity wall insulation
  • Roof insulation
  • Pipe insulation
  • All other insulating materials
  • Thermostatic radiator valves
  • High-efficiency central heating boilers
  • Low energy light bulbs
  • All refrigerators with an A energy rating
  • All washing machines with an A energy rating
  • All freezers with an A energy rating
The list could go on and on. You can't take a government seriously while it continues to rake in taxes on energy saving.
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