"Tagged on almost as an afterthought, Clause 152 of the Bill gives powers to ministers to order personal information that you or I might have handed, say, to the Inland Revenue, to be passed over to the benefits department or some other agency without our knowledge. This will be known as 'an information sharing order'."An information sharing order: Orwellian euphemism for giving government agencies details of private individuals that they should in no way be entitled to have. There is of course a very good reason as to why this clause has been so slyly slipped into a Bill which it otherwise has absolutely no relevance to:
"The reason a bill is needed to allow data sharing is because there are statutes that specifically forbid it. The reason they do so is that past governments and parliaments have considered it wrong to gather information about people all in one place because that would produce a comprehensive picture of an individual's life, and what business does the state have in obtaining that?"Yes, but of course, we in this country have sadly gone from the halycon days of having governments and elected (*cough*) Prime Ministers who actually had some scruples concerning freedom of the individual to the government of the day, beholden as it is to a terrifying communitarian ideology whose only logical outcome, becoming actualised more and more every day, is an absolute socialist nightmare.
This is being done by means of an increasingly hefty and unsubtle salami-slicer, in tandem with the one being wielded simultaneously by Brussel's Eurocrats.
How? The? Hell? Did? It? Get? To? This?
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Psst! http://lpuk.blogspot.com/2009/01/information-sharing-orders-sneaked-in.html
Probably good to repeat this story though.
Saying that it's difficult with everything else that's currently happening - Cash for laws, the pan-EU "criminal" database, economic crash etc..
Yes, it was ... er ... deliberate repetition. Okay, not really, I just need to go to Specsavers.
No, no, I think the more times this is repeated, the better - it's the only way to get people to pull their heads out of their arses and, besides, they've been taught to respond to PR-style repetition by 'Labour'. Once we've lost our privacy and are living in a parody of Plato's Republic's Philosopher Kings' idea of Utopia (and our idea of hell) it'll be damn' hard to get it back.
I've set up a FB group - no to the Coroners and Justice Bill. Am urging people to write to Cameron so that questions can be asked in the House; also contacting the Earl of Errol (Lord Hay) in the Lords as he's very much for civil liberties, personal freedoms etc.
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