Leveller

Jailed for 5 months, by Manchester Magistrates, for accepting a pair of looted pants.

Judge Andrew Gilbart QC said he was setting aside the prison sentence because Nevin had not actually taken part in the riots.

When was the last time that London was in flames?

… that the legality of the drug mephedrone will be examined “very speedily, very carefully” following the deaths of two teenagers.

Whilst at it he may like to examine why it is that a report on the drug is delayed … Oh that’s right its because his colleague

Home Secretary Alan Johnson hard at work

the Minister for ‘Hookar Smoking’ sacked the chairman of the Drug Advisory Council and the working party committee resigned in protest.

Hillier, Minister at the Department for Work and Pension’s, said that the controversial ID scheme has ‘Jerry built’ three databases. “There is the one that holds the fingerprints and facial image, the biometric data, and then the other information which is broadly what is on your passport already and the third bit is the one that links the two,” she said.

In most system this would be separate tables in one database; not three separate databases. Is it any wonder that Governement employees are busily dumping data from database onto data sticks, which they then lose?

She also said that what was important about the identity card was the chip and suggested that in the future it may be possible to install the chip in another device. I suggest that we chip all MPs and RFID tag them too. If after 50 years we can see a decrease in MP criminality we can consider rolling it out to the larger population.

Story from Kable.

Tzipi Livni – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2007, originally uploaded by World Economic Forum.

It doesn’t matter whether you are an elected politician or a shitbag terrorist. You don’t get to bomb densely packed civilian areas or fire rockets into towns without answering to charges of war crimes.

The face of a cunt

Alan Johnson parades the new ID card that is being rolled out in Manchester. The expectation is the students whose grants are delayed due to governmental incompetence, will fork out £30 in order to buy beer in bars.

Note that the card he is flashing is a fake, the bastard can’t even sign himself up for a real one.

In answer to a question from Christopher Price MP, Home Secretary Merlyn Rees said that under the control of the Metropolitan Police there are nine closed-circuit television cameras on fixed sites used mainly for crowd and traffic control.

Mr Rees added: "The Home Office has asked chief officers to satisfy themselves that the use of surveillance equipment is justified in all circumstances and is authorised at an appropriately senior level in the force. Chief officers are well aware of the sensitivity of material obtained in this way’.

Hansard 27/11/1978

Surveillance not to be used to catch litter droppers

Council leaders have been warned this week to stop using surveillance equipment to crack down on “trivial” matters such as “dog fouling and littering”.

In a letter sent to councils this week, Sir Simon Milton, Conservative chairman of the Local Government Association (LGA) called on authorities to undertake an urgent review of surveillance operations carried out under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).

The letter stated that powers in the Act should only be used after “careful consideration” and that the required operations are “necessary and proportionate to prevent or detect a criminal offence”, as stipulated in the Act