The comments on this story say it all:

I’ve voted Labour all my life but this is really the end. Their intrusion into our liberty is frightening and they have ground away the last of my support.

– Niki, Reading, UK

So Bliar won’t even tell us if Leo has had the MMR jab, but all our kids details will be on a register for Lord know’s who to access. Where are the Civil Liberties groups when you need them?

– Sarah, France

When Germany tatooed the Jews there was a human outcry, now our govenment want to bar code it’s citizens. We’ll be known as ‘Barcode Britain’. It’s a good job this didn’t happen when I was a child, I’d have been put into care years ago!

– Alison Johnson, Lanark.UK

Yet again the state is grabbing total control of peoples lives. The outrage however is the lack of opposition by the Conservative and Lib Dem parties to stop this happening. If they truly believed in liberty and freedom they would be shouting from the rooftops, holding the government to account.

– John Galloway, Stanton Upon Hine Heath, Shropshire

Let’s hope that the opposition parties can put a stop to this Dictatorship as soon as possible.

– Fred, Northants

What is this Country coming to? The whole of Britain should take a stand and do something about this!

– Mel, Oxford, UK

No surprises, coming from the same control-freak government that seeks to force every law-abiding citizen to be fingerprinted like common criminals and inform the police when moving house, like a registered sex offender!

– Oliver Coombes, London, England

Completely ridiculous. This is undesirable, unworkable and unethical!

– Frances, Redhill, Surrey

My question to the people of Britain is are you going to let the government and its officials get away with this? Is it not time adults took back control of their families from the state?

– Mabon Dane, Haverhill, UK

What has happened to the spirit of Great Britain? From my side of the Atlantic it seems the British people are oblivious about losing their freedoms. It must be that the majority of the citizens are comfortable giving up their responsibilities to Big Brother. Little by little you are losing your individuality, effectively making the State your dad, mum, boss, etc. I am not anti government, I am for good government, and good government is limited government. I guess there is a childlike comfort to have someone or something looking out for you. But it comes with a big price to pay…your freedom. Maybe I’m totally wrong here, and if that is the case will someone please enlighten me as to what I’m missing.

– George Ruggiero, Whitney Point, New York USA

I can’t believe the over bearing restrictions of personal freedom I see coming out of England. Is there something in the water? What other excuse for the behavior of supposedly intelligent politicians? Either the birth rate will drop even further or couples will start leaving the country.
Next move? Inspectors at the borders to prevent pregnant women from emigrating.

– Joyce B. Goetz, Westlake Village, CA USA

This is outragious! British citizens should take a cue from France for once and riot in the streets.
Don’t depend on civil liberty groups to take the government to task as they are even more left than Labour. No wonder the West is slowly sinking and losing all it’s greatness it once had.
China Inc. will be smiling in the wings.

– John Main, Auckland, New Zealand

Children need one register to keep them safe – the Child Protection Register. It works very well. Tragically, the government is to abolish this by 2008. This register focuses professional attention on the few children identified as at high risk of child abuse – there is very good reason to be monitoring them and their families to keep the children safe from harm. Most children are well cared for and to electronically monitor their progress is an affront to good parents and carers and a terrible invasion of human rights. Please campaign to save the Child Protection Register. Vulnerable children depend on you to contact your MP.

– Liz, london UK

Papers please. What are we coming to? This is only the beginning of complete monitoring of all citizens. Trouble is, as long as we only complain about this in bars and take no action, we are eventually going to have to accept complete state control. Whatever happened to “never again”?

– John, Darwen, England

Britain seems about time for a revolution. They’re just doing this so that in 30 years, they can start tracking these babies as adults as they build their careers… the entire country is becoming a sick social experiment where the government is a scientist, tracking, analyzing and trying to play god with the human race.

– Matt, Carroll NH, USA

How can this even be done? To monitor whether a child is eating 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day? How is that even possible?
I don’t see how this could be implemented in any practical way, just more bureaucracy and more paperwork and more confusion. Also more jobs created by the government. It’s scary to think the govt. will give so many people power over the lives of families. This isn’t going to help children at risk, it’s going to prepare an entire generation to obey orders and to be, essentially, helpless in the long run.

– Desha Devor, Washington, DC, USA

What happens if you refuse to give details?

– John De St Croix, London England

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The Daily Mail

The hate is swelling in them now.

Look at all of these comments!

It looks like a rough ride for Bliar and the Neu Labour fascist enterprise. The best comment, the most satisfying, exiting and hope inducing one is:

“What happens if you refuse to give details?”

FINALLY someone somewhere (and this person CANNOT be the only one) is waking up, and saying, “fuck that for a scream, I’m just not going to do it”. Awesome.

I would suggest however, that the way forward is not to ‘refuse to give details’ but to simply ignore any and all requests for information. When you refuse, you actually provide feedback to the system, which is then recorded by and which engrosses the very system you are trying to strarve of information.

Imagine this; they send out 16 million letters to parents up and down the country, and not one of them replies. What are they going to do?

There is NOTHING that they can do. If no one reples, and no one responds, they are dead in the water. They might of course, try and cobble this information from schools or other sources, but that may be illegal, and fundamentally they need everyone’s cooperation. If you don’t give it, they die.

This entry was posted on Friday, July 21st, 2006 at 3:53 pm and is filed under NIR.