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Talking 'bout a Revolution...

Posted October 30th, 2005 by ringverse
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I have been stuck in a frenzy of decorating for the last week or so, the reason for the recent lack of posts, and have not been following the news. The snippets I have caught on the radio have been sounding more and more delluded, from the smoking ban debacle, to the Bliar's attempts to start a war with Iran, the attempts to sell the Iraqi constitution as a way forward to the country, and today's proposal ban drinking alcahol anywhere other than in a 24 hour pub.

But the latest offering, the threat to seize the houses of those who breach an ASBO [hat tip to Tim Worstal], is the icing on the cake. Yup, that's right. You, or one of your family breach an ASBO, and you can kiss goodbye to the house you have spent the last 25 years paying for. This last 'initiative' is enough to incite the normally pragmatic Mr Worstall to risk the wrath of government 'incitement to' or 'glorification of' terrorism legislation, by calling for Guido Fawkes to have another go this year.

The 40 separate proposals include moves to allow local councils to seize the privately owned homes of people convicted of serious anti-social behaviour offences.

The policy proposals follow a brain-storming session held at Chequers last month, which was chaired by the Prime Minister and attended by a range of officials including Louise Casey, the controversial anti-social behaviour "tsar".

A while ago we noted Jonathan Friedland's suggestion that the Bliar's anti terror plans were based on the TV series '24'. Are we to infer from this latest plan that New Labour policy wanks wonks have been watching too much of The Shield?