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Timed to coincide with the run-up to last week's freedom-themed Haltemprice by-election, the Tax Payers Alliance published a paper on The Cost of Big Brother Government.
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As commented in the Daily Telegraph: 'Big Brother' government costs us £20billion It compared the massively expensive (nearly £20 billion) but ineffective measures pursued by the Government - such as ID cards, CCTV and microchips in bins - with the notable failure to employ simple, affordable but useful measures such as proper border controls, deporting known hate preachers and properly enforcing existing laws. The paper also featured a "Hate Preacher Rich List" showing how much taxpayers have paid for the council housing, legal representation, benefits and incarceration of hate preachers who should instead have been deported. To read the full report click here.
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Following on from the theme in the Daily Telegrap's piece Is Labour's surveillance society costing us too much? David Davis, former Shadow Home Secretary, said:
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As commented in the Daily Telegraph: 'Big Brother' government costs us £20billion It compared the massively expensive (nearly £20 billion) but ineffective measures pursued by the Government - such as ID cards, CCTV and microchips in bins - with the notable failure to employ simple, affordable but useful measures such as proper border controls, deporting known hate preachers and properly enforcing existing laws. The paper also featured a "Hate Preacher Rich List" showing how much taxpayers have paid for the council housing, legal representation, benefits and incarceration of hate preachers who should instead have been deported. To read the full report click here.
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Following on from the theme in the Daily Telegrap's piece Is Labour's surveillance society costing us too much? David Davis, former Shadow Home Secretary, said:
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“This is yet further damning evidence of Big Brother’s expensive tastes. ID cards, CCTV, the DNA database and other measures are a huge waste of taxpayers’ money on policies that undermine freedom and are utterly ineffective in fighting crime or terrorism. At the same time, the Government has failed to deal robustly with extremists and terrorists, like Abu Hamza. Yet again, this government penalises the innocent, and is a soft touch for the guilty.”
Mr Davis has more than a point, the terrorists are winning and this Labour Government is acting in true Orwellian style.
“This is yet further damning evidence of Big Brother’s expensive tastes. ID cards, CCTV, the DNA database and other measures are a huge waste of taxpayers’ money on policies that undermine freedom and are utterly ineffective in fighting crime or terrorism. At the same time, the Government has failed to deal robustly with extremists and terrorists, like Abu Hamza. Yet again, this government penalises the innocent, and is a soft touch for the guilty.”
Mr Davis has more than a point, the terrorists are winning and this Labour Government is acting in true Orwellian style.
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