Noo Labour is to democracy what Hitler was to Jewish welfare

So Musharaf has done what all tinpot dictators do when threatened with relegation to "normal" status - rounded up as many opponents as possible and stuck them in prison.
Predictably,our world-famous Foreign Secretary, Davis Millimetre I believe his name is, has piped up and condemned this latest assault on democracy. In this he undoubtedly has the blessing of Brown Bottle who bangs on about his love of liberty and, more specifically, of his belief in the tradition of personal liberty that is so central to the elusive quality of BRITISHNESS he is so anxious to recover..
What total bloody hypocrites he and the rest of the chattering classes truly are.
Great Britain - wait I'll change that because a lot of what I am going to say doesn't apply to Scotland - England is now the most spied upon, monitored and controlled country in the developed world. Not only do we have more spy cameras than any other nation but we have a Police Force that is determined to fingerprint and DNA swab as many of us as is humanly possible as quickly as possible: Probably to match that information with the prints and bodily fluids we will have to provide to qualify for the dubious honour of carrying an ID card.
While all of this is going on, eroding our personal liberties even faster than the rate at which the government can draft new bills, the nonentities that represent us to the rest of the world tut tut and shake their heads at perceived breaches of the democratic principle in other countries. .
If it wasn't so tragic, it would be laughable.
The only thing that stops this country sliding into a dictatorship is the fact that the people running the show are so totally incompetent. Give them a computer system to develop - for whatever purpose - and they'll spend a couple of billion but still cock it up so magnificently that it , in most cases,it just gets quietly abandoned. Ask them to create an integrated Transport system and we end up with sclerosis on most main roads and trains that struggle to match journey times from the steam era.
Unfortunately, the same brand of incompetence is evident in their attempts at enforcing national security. Can you imagine a private enterprise with the CCTV cameras, DNA and fingerprint databases, electronic eavesdropping and the other paraphernalia available to the modern snooping society , screwing up so comprehensively that an innocent man ends up with seven bullets in his head? Neither can I.
So, while I believe that Brown is to democracy what Hitler was to Jewish welfare, I am quietly confident that I will never see ID cards introduced in my life time. It won't be the once-famous English stubborness or love of privacy that will save us. Just the inability of this current crop of politicians to run anything more serious than a bath.