> Prime Minister David Cameron and his Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will tell a special cabinet meeting on Thursday that emergency legislation is necessary to keep the country safe.
Safe from what, exactly?
Safe from what, exactly?
(From Franke Boyle, but I can't find the tweet at the moment.)
> Frankie Boyle @frankieboyle Jul 10
> Oddly, a government that lost 114 files on child abuse thinks it's important to keep a note of every time you post a funny cat video online
> Frankie Boyle @frankieboyle Jul 10
> About time we had a new electronic surveillance law to uncover exactly no terrorists and 158 million texts about fucking
The tory party is now surely the baby-raping party in the minds of everyone who read about that investigation and the "lost" files.
TBF not much change there.
I suspect that the timing of this isn't coincidental as well on the basis that:
1. It was just after the allegations of these files being lost was made (5th July)
2. Everyone's going on holiday soon (22nd July) so apathy is at a high.
Not impressed!
It was a response to David Cameron's tweet.
Criminals and terrorists (Sir Richard Ottaway)
Pedophiles; radicals; criminals; terrorists; industrial, military and state criminal exploitation of communications networks, espionage organised criminal gangs; the threat from all sorts of criminals whose work is made easier by cyber-technology. (Theresa May) [1]
Basically, everything, because of how broad the act is.
[1] http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201415/cmhansrd/c...
From the BBC's coverage of the announcement yesterday: "PM asks if we want paedophiles and extremists to communicate without it being possible to intercept communications".