Number ten on this list of questionable acts by the Labour government (Linked to by the Adam Smith Institute) seems somewhat surprising:
The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act has also created a secret police force, the Serious Organised Crime Agency. The location of the agencies offices are not to be disclosed. Its officers do not swear to uphold the law like normal police officers, but are civil servants answerable only to the government.
I wonder if it is true. Not all of the rest of the list is.[1] For example, the government has never said that people would have to carry ID cards, just own them. And in fact, the card itself is not the point. But we digress.
Even if that list contains exaggerations, it is a startling list things to be cross about. As the year closes, Blair hangs on, searching for the last, great big idea, but everyone else, I think, whether from the left or the right, is wondering what and who comes next.
[1] A shock, I know, to more delicate readers, but rants on the internet are often factually inaccurate.[2]
[2] Even rants about how factually inaccurate “the internet” is.