MamaGoblin,
In the 70's and 80's we were still fighting the cold war against the communists and who were the Labour party then? It's small wonder that number plates were logged really, but why does Labour feel the need to log every number plate, of every person driving around there town and beyond? Firstly they say it's because of terrorists.. then they say it's to increase the revenue by catching people without tax or insurance, then they say it's to catch car's stolen, they really should get their stories straight.
I'm not talking about recycling, (that's a different thread) I'm talking about when they stealth off with your rubbish in the middle of the night to 'check' it's contents, or add monitors to your wheelie bin to make sure your being a good citizen.
It's not just credit card companies who monitor what you buy and sell on that information to interested parties. The government has and uses the technology available to 'monitor' your internet and credit transactions, just as they monitor your calls and emails incase something is 'flagged ' up.
Yes, I have read 1984, and if you don't believe that government do not act in such ways then I would like to view your rose colloured glasses.
Labours 'advances' in human rights has given rise to what the popular press call the 'criminals charter', not to keen on the name but I suppose it's an accurate representation of the way things have panned out under Labour, parents defending their children from yobs arrested, criminals suing the police and home owners for 'injuries'. A farmer sentences to five years for defending his property. Travellers allowed to set up camp wherever they feel like to make life hell for the local residents. Bullies in schools allowed to carry on until a child feels they have no alternative to kill themselves. The state knowing better than parents what their children should be eating, thinking, doing.
And god help anyone who rocks the boat, stands up for themselves and their children and doesn't toe the party line.
Gay and lesbian rights would have followed no matter who was in power, the Conservatives do have gay and lesbian members (MP's and Councillors ) you know, they didn't all join the labour party.
To look back on decades past in an arguement on political standing is a lost cause, times were different, people were different, the country was different, the generation of Blair and Cameron are a different breed to the generation of Thatcher and Callaghan, so who is to say what life will be like under the Conservatives after the next election.
But Labour are now collectively as 'bonkers' as Thatcher was at the end, so it's time for them to go.