Posts by Onion

Top Tory resigns on principle over 42 days bill

@ AC

'how would you feel if the law hadn't passed and some "brainwashed" fundamentalist came along and blew up your office / town centre and killed innocent people and it emerged that hmm we could have gotten him if we had more time, we kept working and proved it but too late to prevent this...'

Think about the recent Exeter bombing - the brain-washed bomber who had learning disabilities and his handlers were known to the security services, almost certainly through communications intercepts. If this evidence was admissible in court, they would have been arrested, charged and imprisoned before his failed attempt. How would you feel if he had succeeded? Detention without charge would not have prevented the bombing.

The security services claim there are hundreds of people plotting to attack us. They can only know this through intelligence - spies and intercept evidence. Our security depends on subjecting them to due process of law before they blow us up, not 42 day detention without charge.

42 days is about Brown politically posturing and nothing to do with our security.

Seven per cent of doctors are mad: Official

100% of anonymous cowards are running scared

It's very simple.

Anonymous Coward and his/ her ilk are frightened of losing his/ her non-job that is a part of Gordon Brown's client and surveillance state. That explains his hysterical ramblings and unfounded slurs against GPs

"Surely a better measure would be the number of Connecting for Health staff who have chosen to opt out?"

Why? Would turkeys vote for Christmas?

We are not sleepwalking into a surveillance state. We are living in it already. When the revolution comes, those anonymous cowards who inflicted this on us without our consent will be first up against the wall

Met plan moves police to out of town megabases

our 5 year plan

Sounds just like the government plans for the NHS - close GP surgeries/ hospitals and shepherd everyone into polyclinics (last seen in failing Eastern European healthcare systems). Remove doctors from frontline clinical care and replace them with noctors (nurse practitioners, emergency care practitioners, medical care practitioners, pharmacy care assistants etc.)

No doubt the system will cost twice as much, kill twice as many and make a killing for the privileged few private contractors/ PFI merchants that have the ear of this government.