It doesn't matter which party is in power, the state always wants more power over your life. The last Labour government tried to introduce this draconian control over our use of phones and Internet. However, for the usual party political motives the Tories and the LibDems opposed it, now they are in power and they plan to introduce the self same plans. This is probably the biggest step the state can take to pocking its nose right into your private and personal affairs. Every text, phone call, e-mail will be scrutinised, every web page you look at will be reported. Not only what pages, but how long you stayed on that page and how often you visit the page. All those silly little personal texts, and e-mails, all those very intimate phone calls, will be read and listened to by a bunch of prying government eyes and ears.
This is the sort of thing that our so called democracy spouts its mouth off about when it happens in some other repressive regime, calling it an attack on the human right of expression. It is bad when it is done overseas, but necessary when it is done here, hypocrisy rules as Big Brother bites deeper. George Orwell, why didn't we listen?
