Theresa May scrapping certain human rights

Link? Just when you think she can't get any worse...

So, she wants to introduce the most heavy surveillance on the planet (despite cutting all the neighborhood police who could have told her about the extremists by, y'know, doing normal police work), AND basically throw out "innocent till proven guilty"?

She's gone over the edge. That's what it means.

So, she wants to introduce the most heavy surveillance on the planet

I can't find any mention of this in the linked article.

Having read the article, it looks like typical Grauniad anti Tory hyperbole. Gunting - innocent people always have their lives surveilled, even if it's just by coppers with speed cameras or closed circuit tv in the street, it's a feature of modern life we have to live with.
You sound like you think that Guantanamo bay is a bad thing, a lot of people would disagree with you.

What a perfect storm for TM. She rides the wave of the terror attacks to scrape the Human Rights Act she hates so much. I don't know if she is desperate or maybe this is her best move so far? (best for her, of course).

No surprise there then.

@CrossWordSalad surely that is implied with her wanting to control movements of people who aren't even prosecuted

Oh, okay, so you want to extrapolate from what is actually said so you can be outraged about measures that aren't being proposed. Fine.

Are you happy with the current situation with 3,000 or 23,000, depending how you measure it, known jihadis on the streets of the UK? Do you not want the state's powers to stop the terrorist atrocities we keep seeing on our streets? From my reading of the article, the proposed powers would be for use with extremist terrorists.

Good levels of community policing are the most effective way of tackling this type of terrorism. This strikes me as just an opportunity to implement the scrapping of the human rights act, which has always been one of her personal crusades. TM strikes me as fixated on a couple of narrow policies (Human Rights and immigration) that make her extremely inflexible.

Anyone with the mildest technological literacy should be able to figure out why Hashtag Rudd's surveillance proposals will not "just" fuck over human rights, but also the tech industry in the UK. Wannacry demonstrates pretty clearly why "convenient" backdoors don't stay secret, and will be misused.

Just when you think she can't possibly get any worse

Grace Agree on the inflexibility. If May was on here, we'd think she was a bot. She's wanted to take a knife to human rights law for years, and she thinks she can use the attacks to do so.

She also needs to distract attention from the fact that for the last 7 years while those attackers were being radicalised, she was Home Secretary for 6 of them, and then PM - busily telling the police they were "crying wolf" about cuts.

We already know May isn't competent to fight terrorism.

Would anyone like to suggest what measures they would like to see taken to tackle terrorism?

Community Police are great when they are accepted by the community.

Would anyone like to suggest what measures they would like to see taken to tackle terrorism?

There have been 3 threads about this since Saturday. Some of them very informative.

Out of the 5 men who have attacked this country in the past 10 weeks, 4 of them were known to security services, yet nothing was done. How did their human rights get in the way here?

I don't know the details. But being "known to security services" is not a crime. I think this is one of the problems isn't it, that there can be reasonable grounds for suspicion but not enough evidence of a criminal action to do anything?

I agree the report should be published.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40183147
This is the sort of report that would panic any government going into an election.