"I believe that together we can chart a better way forward. In particular, I believe that by applying our enduring ideals to new challenges we can start immediately to make changes in our constitution and laws to safeguard and extend the liberties of our citizens:
• respecting and extending freedom of assembly, new rights for the public expression of dissent;
• respecting freedom to organise and petition, new freedoms that guarantee the independence of non-governmental organisations;
• respecting freedoms for our press, the removal of barriers to investigative journalism;
• respecting the public right to know, new rights to access public information where previously it has been withheld;
• respecting privacy in the home, new rights against arbitrary intrusion;
• in a world of new technology, new rights to protect your private information;
• and respecting the need for freedom from arbitrary treatment, new provision for independent judicial scrutiny and open parliamentary oversight."
And the answer? It was our very own Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, speaking a couple of weeks ago at the University of Westminster.
Bloody liar. Exactly how stupid does he think we are?
Does he really think he can dupe us simply by saying the very opposite of the truth? It might have worked for the totalitarian regime in George Orwell's "1984", but that was written nearly sixty years ago. It might still work for the parliamentary Labour Party, I suppose, but for us real people?
I don't think so. I imagine we've got a little more cynical since, or even because, Orwell put pen to paper …
Ken R
he probably thinks if he repeats these lies often enough , then they must be true ! This country needs him and the Labour party about as much as a goldfish needs a bicycle !!!!!!
Sandie Seward
The problem is, Ken, I don't trust the Tories to deliver either. What this country needs is a Brand New Party that puts the People First, and it's Elected Officers to actually Implement the peoples wishes.
In a true Democracy, we would have a Referendum on every issue that affects the General Public!
he probably thinks if he repeats these lies often enough , then they must be true ! This country needs him and the Labour party about as much as a goldfish needs a bicycle !!!!!!