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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 :)

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately PR never quite works properly at a constituency level. In the worst case, let's say the BNP get 0.5% of the vote everywhere. That's enough for an MP somewhere so some place is going to get a BNP MP they did not even nearly vote for. OK, that's an extreme case but anomalies like that will happen in whatever version of PR you come up with.

I still think it's a better system but it's going to be bad for some.