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Election Day: Vote For Change

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’m voting Conservative in today’s general election.  A lot of VFPJ is about the failure of the Labour “government”, particularly its complicity with and failure to answer questions about its involvement with Phorm and BT.

Labour, Phorm & RIPA: Facts & Questions

To this day I have yet to receive any response from Kent Ertugrul or Neil Berkett to my challenge over their use of DPI technology. I now extend that challenge to Labour ministers, MPs and supporters.

Why did you fail to protect internet users’ privacy? Why did you refuse to prosecute directors of BT & Phorm responsible for these breaches of RIPA? Why do you refuse to answer valid questions about your involvement with [...]

Parliament Shows Its Ignorance

The Digital Economy Bill serves only the vested interests of organisations like the BPI (and that’s a real dinosaur name. Phonograph? We moved on from that years ago!), UK Music and the “entertainment” companies. And not only did this pathetic excuse for a “government” buy into the questionable statistics but the opposition parties fell for it too.

Today Parliament demonstrated its ignorance. Across all [...]

Delroy Smellie Verdict

Judging by the various comments on the Twitter hashtag #Smellie I’m not the only one who is less than impressed with the not guilty verdict handed down by District Judge Daphne Wickham.

Quite what signal this sends to the Police I am not sure. Whatever it may be I doubt it’s a good one. It appears to legitimise coppers belting people with batons because that doesn’t count as [...]

The Road From Legitimate Suspicion To Rampant Paranoia

More vested interest protecting vested interests. Pathetic and self-serving. I have no hesitation in branding Lord Clement-Jones a disgrace to his party. Equally I have no hesitation in branding Lord Howard of Rising a disgrace to the Conservative party.

This week all the major parties have shown the kind of stupidity that is offensive to anyone who believes in a free, democratic society.

The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think. The House Of Lords has failed in its duty to hold the “government” to account and right the wrongs in this defective [...]

Vote For Change Or Vote For Gordongrad

New in the blogroll is A Future Fair For All, a blog which documents the many other failures of this “government” using its campaign slogan. And be sure there are a lot more than those I mention here. I do not believe New Labour can truly deliver “A Future Fair For All” because they do not have the desire to do so. New Labour stands for control freakery of the worst kind. It is the enemy of a free, open [...]