Snoopers

I am glad to see that the government are going to clamp down on local councils misusing powers brought in for countering terrorism and serious crime that have been activated for snooping on dog fouling and people who put their bins out too early. We all know that some employees of local councils are full of self importance at the best of times and given the sort of powers that allow them to snoop on every minor allegation of minor misdoing are likely to create a class of state employees with pretensions to becoming an english version of the late and unlamented East German Stasi. The only pity is that the government have taken so long to act on this matter. Unfortunately this action in itself will not stop people in Britain being amongst the most spied on people in the western world under constant surviellance from vast arrays of CCTV and speeding cameras which only seem to displace crime and bad motoring behaviour from one location to another and government agencies with a seemingly insatiable appetite for obtaining every last scrap of information on us, our families and friends.

Its no wonder that mental health studies indicate that anxiety and depression are on the rise. In this day and age you really dont have to be paranoid to think that big brother is watching you.