Queen’s speech revealed: David Cameron’s 500 day programme to change Britain 4


Patrick Hennessy writes in the Sunday Telegraph:

A late draft of the Queen’s Speech, obtained by this newspaper, reveals that the Government will spell out an ambitious programme of at least 21 Bills to be introduced in the next 18 months.

Within days, the coalition Government intends to bring in key school reforms and scrap plans for ID cards.

The paper carries a detailed list of bills in the legislative programme:

BILLS FOR IMMEDIATE INTRODUCTION

Identity Documents Bill (Home Office).

The imminent scrapping of identity cards and the planned National Identity Register is already being foreshadowed on the Home Office website. This Bill will enact a policy that both coalition partners put forward but the fact it is one of the first three pieces of legislation to be unveiled is a boost for Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems’ civil liberties agenda.

BILLS TO BE INTRODUCED BEFORE SUMMER RECESS

The Great Repeals Bill aka The Freedom Bill (Cabinet Office).

This will enact a raft of reforms described by Nick Clegg last week as the most radical redistribution of power from the state to the people in 200 years. It will include the scrapping of universal DNA databases and the placing of restrictions on internet records while the use of CCTV cameras will be reviewed, the ContactPoint children’s database will be shut down. Libel laws will be reviewed while limits on peaceful protest will be removed.


4 thoughts on “Queen’s speech revealed: David Cameron’s 500 day programme to change Britain

  • Ian Russell

    Don’t say goodbye just yet !!

    Automatic Number Plate Recognition (already well under way) and road pricing (if ever implimemted) are identification and TRACKING systems, each feeding information into giant databases. Worse if anything than thye ID and the NIR. These must be among the next targets for the likes of NO2ID.

  • Ian Russell

    Don’t say goodbye just yet !!

    Automatic Number Plate Recognition (already well under way) and road pricing (if ever implimemted) are identification and TRACKING systems, each feeding information into giant databases. Worse if anything than thye ID and the NIR. These must be among the next targets for the likes of NO2ID.

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