Totalitarian Tony trashes further freedoms

The latest move giving the police power to fingerprint any stopped motorists seems to be starting today, read here, without even any pretence of prior parliamentary discussion. Sky News is this moment reporting that this system has already been in use in Luton for two weeks. Apart from brief coverage on the Radio 4 Today programme this latest outrage seems to yet again be meekly accepted by the cowed and once proud British population. According to the Telegraph report of this latest persecution of the public, linked here, passengers too will be subjected to such fingerprinting and identification, so even by electing not to drive our privacy is not secure. Meantime families will have their children constantly monitored according to this article in the Daily Telegraph, which will be undertaken in conjunction with an army of state-employed busy-bodies presumably with rights to enter your home to supervise your children. It is not as if the government is in control of events clearly within its own proper area of control such as deportation of illegal immigrants read here and also on uncounted legal immigrant workers as The Sun points out here today:

Government figures showed 510,000 immigrants have come to work in the UK from Poland and other countries since they joined the European Union in May, 2004.

Statistics for July to September this year show 59,365 new arrivals signed up to the Worker Registration Scheme.

But the numbers do not include self-employed workers - thought to include a significant number of Eastern Europeans in the building trade. It also excludes those who are here but not working.