David Davis on Liberty

Thank God for David Davis.

His speech could and should have been made in the House of Commons. It is a disgrace that the Speaker should decline to let him make the speech in the Commons. Yes, the issue was discussed yesterday, but when one of the most prominent English politicians, the shadow Home Secretary no less, resigns both his office and his seat in the House of Commons, he should be heard in the House of Commons. Michael Martin is the embodiment of partisan mediocrity and so perhaps we should not be surprised at his decision.

What is David Davis complaining about?

• The most intrusive identity card system in the world
  
• A CCTV camera for every 14 citizens 
  
• a DNA database bigger than in any dictatorship, with 1000s of innocent children and a million innocent citizens on it.
  
• An assault on jury trials—that balwark against bad law and its arbitrary use by the state. 
  
• Short cuts with our justice system that make our system neither firm not fair.
  
• the creation of a database state opening up our private lives to the prying eyes of official snoopers and exposing our personal data to careless civil servants and criminal hackers.
  
• state security powers to clamp down on peaceful protest
  
• so-called hate laws that stifle legitimate debate
  

And there is more. Much more. Soon, if the government has its way, your personal medical details will up uploaded to a state run centralized computer.

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And for some inside track information see Iain Dale's "David Davis' walk into the unknown"