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[sarah_orange]

I don't put much politics up on here cos every knows I'm a lib-dem (hell I used to be an active one before I had a nightclub...) and people who only post about politics can be boring/patronising etc. But something a chap I know posted on Eddy's facebook suggesting the lib-dems didn't actually have any policies *really* pissed me off.

here's a link to their policy pocket book - an abridged (ie mostly lacking figures) version of their fully numbered manifesto.

I was just reading through it and I came across this bit. I knew all this already but I wondered how many people who aren't rabid lib-demmers like me knew it:

Introduce a Freedom Bill to restore and protect our civil liberties – Liberal Democrats
have put together all the freedoms that have been undermined by Labour and the Tories
in the last twenty years to restore them in a single Act of Parliament. We will scrap ID cards;
get innocent people off the DNA database; regulate CCTV; allow people to protest at
Parliament; stop councils from spying on people; and stop unfair extradition to the US. See
http://freedom.libdems.org.uk/

End plans to spy on your email and internet use – Labour want companies to store
information about your email and internet use – even storing data about what you do on
social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. This is a huge waste of money and
time, which we will scrap. We will ensure your private data is kept safe.

there you go that's me for today :)

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[steer.livejournal.com]

:( It's the sad thing about being a third party -- because election coverage dominates the first two parties stupid people assume your party has no policies because those policies are rarely reported.

Our local PPC for the Lib Dems is excellent and I've got the Lib Dem diamond up in my window already.