Posted in Civil Liberties, Freedom, Government, Human Rights, Labour, Police, Political, UK politics, democracy, tagged ID cards, Labour Party on January 9, 2008 | No Comments »
The decision to introduce a National Identity Scheme was announced in the Queen’s Speech on 17 May 2005. The Identity Cards Act received royal assent, becoming law, on 30 March 2006. The introduction of biometric residence permits for foreign nationals in 2008 and the first ID cards to be issued to British citizens in will [...]
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Gordon Brown has announced the beginning of a national consultation in view of setting up a written British constitution.
His speech makes particular reference to the following
• Respecting and extending freedom of assembly, new rights for the public expression of dissent;
• Respecting freedom to organise and petition, new freedoms that guarantee the independence of non-governmental organisations;
• [...]
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Its about time I made my feelings on foxhunting perfectly clear; its a contentious issue for sure and one that raises many heated arguments.
I live in a predominantly Tory, Countryside Alliance area and I have grown more than a little weary of the continued use of car bumper stickers protesting the injustice of the foxhunting [...]
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I’ve often ruffled feathers with my stance on Patriotism, I don’t see why it should ruffle feathers after all I’m not actively involved in sedition or anything in fact the very title of this post is completely fallacious in that I’m not an Anti-Patriot I’m just not a Patriot.
This is of course part of a [...]
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The point of most Philosophy is to return to the very essential questions and premises of reality and then work outwards, a concept which sounds so very simple and yet is more difficult than you’d think.
Because of course you have to find out the basic premise in the first place, otherwise you can spend a [...]
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