Recession is not an excuse to declare war on our freedoms
Mary Riddell writes in the Daily Telegraph:
We cannot, in human or financial terms, afford ID cards and the assorted panoply of a surveillance state whose likely costs, according to the Convention on Modern Liberty, equal £33 billion, or the price of keeping our Armed Forces on active service abroad. In the reductive world of economic crisis, priceless values are being cast to the wind by both main parties. The shadow home secretary has made clear that civil liberties will be secondary to getting even tougher on youth crime.
