Any Excuse

[GastonJ]

Labour and the Conservatives could unite to push through the controversial communications bill despite Lib Dem objections, a former Tory leader says. The bill, allowing the monitoring of all UK citizens' internet use, was dropped after a split in the coalition. But Lord Howard said David Cameron had "to act in the national interest" following the Woolwich murder.


Who's contacting who'

The Communications Data Bill would have given police and security services access, without a warrant, to details of all online communication in the UK - such as the time, duration, originator and recipient, and the location of the device from which it was made.

It would also give access to all Britons' web browsing history and details of messages sent on social media. The police would have to get a warrant from the home secretary to be able to access the actual content of conversations and messages


BBC News - Tory-Labour pact could save data bill, says Lord Howard

Using any excuse possible to put more monitoring in place once more. This would have stopped the sick murder how? F**king MP's use a muder to justify such a law when it would have done nothing to save that poor man's life. What next TV camera's in everyone's house because Osame bin Laden took a sh*t in a house once?

[ajax2061]

welcome to the great british police state !

[Meat-Head]

CONFUSED

So thus solider that got murdered, did he get ran over with a 386 DX with a 10 meg hdd, then was he stabbed witha quote from f@kebook, then finished off with a whack round the head with justin beavers myspace?

so if anybody has access to the accused who are off line in hospital, are they dk members?

[Canker_Canison]

I was expecting this, just not within the week of the incident.

Guess we might have the answer as to why the security services turned a blind eye to a pair that carried out the attack. They knew about them & have made a load of arrests very quickly. As much as it's a horrifying thought....'sacrificial goat' comes to mind.

[GastonJ]

Aye these things happen, can't get a law passed through the house of commons? Just wait until something totally unrelated happens and use that as an excuse, works every time. I'm surprised they didn't try for compulsory ID cards this week as well. Perhaps having your ID card nailed to your head with a 6 inch nail to your head with your criminal past, and possible future, for all to see would have been the answer. I'm sure criminals will be more than ready to show their ID before they commit any criminal acts with the cheery line "It's ok my ID card says I can kill people, so not a problem", or "I skyped my mate that I was planning this, so the police knew in advance - not my fault they let it happen".

I can't decide whether MP's are just stupid or just have their heads up their ar$es thinking that the public will go for that one. Absolutely no evidence whatsoever that monitoring inter and communications would have stopped this sick attack at all. Perhaps teh MP's are the sick ones for using this as the excuse to get the sheep behind them (normally they're in front of some MP's) and call it support.

[Meat-Head]

Thing is who is paying fir the fuzz to check gmbs cut and paste jongs?

[darwins]

Bills like these end up with a twist on the way.. A bit like TAX !

Maybe we should scrap MI5 and employ journalists.. now there is a thought

[ajax2061]

Bills like these end up with a twist on the way.. A bit like TAX !

Maybe we should scrap MI5 and employ journalists.. now there is a thought

If they used the old sunday sport reporters you would get more truth in reports also