The Cameron government is now attempting to re-introduce the snooper's charter. The only change seems to be that the police are not going to be allowed to obtain browsing history of computers in order to prevent them smashing the paedophile rings at MI6 and GCHQ, and allowing the police to no longer deal with burglaries.
I think Jeremy Corbyn should seize the situation like a man. I half-suspect that Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman were being bugged, but they seem to think they were being protected by the Wilson doctrine of no telephone tapping for politicians. A Govenment lawyer has recently said that this is not so, as Edward Snowden has said, bulk intervention is used on politicians and journalists and celebritiies. I don't think it is within the law, or should be within the law, as GCHQ insists.
What annoys me is that plonker Malcolm Rifind and Lord Carlile are all for bulk intervention with no legal safeguards, or judge's warrants. They look like a pair of stupid Jews to me. I suppose GCHQ consists of Irish with no principles. Some say "what does it matter" as you must assume your telephone is tapped, but I find it can disturb the mind, particularly if you are a teenager.
What I find a bit strange is that most women don't seem to mind as long as it is terrorists and whistleblowers and real professional criminals, and not bank fraud. It must be something to do with the female brain. I don't think our secret service have been particularly successful in regard to terrorist groups like Al-Shabab and Isis and Boko Harem, or even the IRA. They have never had to cope with austerity, like single mothers.
Without public criticism institutions, however excellent, become unhealthy and decay. It's like something from the Russian Secret Police.
