UK Government goes Big Brother

11:03.12 - Sunday 11th March 2007   (Link to This Entry)

It doesn't matter who's in charge anymore, the UK Government seems to want to track everybody at all times, and they're trying to fix it so you don't move about too much while they're at it. It's not enough that the UK has a CCTV camera for every 14 citizens - in the last year or so it's really getting Orwellian.

It started with ID Cards and Biometric Passports linked to a Big Brother-style Identity Database where everything they can glean about you will be recorded and cross-referenced in the name of "fighting terrorism".

The Government wants to track every car via satellite, ostensibly to charge you more for using congested routes at peak times. Tracking and recording the movements of the UK's 26 Million cars would allow them to find anyone quickly and easily and give a list of where they'd been. They already have a system using a network of cameras watching central London that can track every vehicle entering the area and look up the registered owner.

Now they want to tax domestic flights to help the environment. With the increase in flight costs, people will move to (tracked) car journeys or be forced to use the UK's crappy, and frankly unsafe rail network. How long before you need to show your compulsory ID card to board a train "to fight terrorism"?

And according to the present Government's own man in charge, James Hall, you soon won't be able to leave the country if you don't agree with these measures, even if you want to leave the country precisely because you don't agree with them.