Hodge: winner of Big Brother award
In 2004, Privacy International, a civil liberties campaign group based in London, awarded Margaret Hodge, the Labour MP for Barking in East London and the first ever Minister of State for Children, the ‘Big Brother’ Award for “Worst Public Servant” after she backed controversial government measures that trespassed upon personal privacy, enhanced the power of the burgeoning database state and helped compromise our hard-won civil liberties.
Hodge backed nanny state
Also, in 2004, she strongly defended the idea of greater state regulation of individual’s choices and supported more state interference in family life, particularly in the way we bring up our children, by declaring, “some may call it the ‘nanny state’, but I call it a force for good”.
Of course, Margaret Hodge plans to be ‘Super Nanny’ in any such state!
Votes against freedom
She has also strongly backed the power of the state to regulate our personal choices and tastes, including support for the smoking ban.
She has also rejected the idea of external audits on MPs’ allowances, opposed the strengthening of the Freedom of Information Act, voted against the idea of allowing legitimate protest outside parliament, backed controversial measures on terror suspects being subject to control orders with only limited judicial review, supported the Iraq War, yet opposed an investigation into its conduct and, significantly, strongly supported the forcing us all to carry ID cards, which will only bolster state interference into our lives. Hodge has voted against freedom.
I assume that according to some, Self Regulation is the answer to everything. How does Self Regulation tackle “greed” which has forced thousands out of work while those with their snouts in the trough carry on regardless.
John Worker.
Comment by john worker — April 9, 2010 @ 2:16 pm |