Your Freedoms?
The Deputy Prime Minister has been allowed out for the day to promote his ever so caring and listening Your Freedom campaign. Littering his morning media appearances with anecdotes about squirrels, Clegg is asking for your submissions for laws to repeal.
The Taxpayers’ Alliance’s new model of Susie Squire, Emma Boon was on the Today program calling for an end to taxpayer subsidies for unions - so called “utilities funds” that allow public sector workers to carry on being paid from the public purse on days that they are doing union activities. While this can be a matter of hours, there are cases where teachers are paid not to teach but be regional union coordinators all week. A ridiculous waste of money that Labour turned a blind eye to.
As serious as some suggestions have been, perhaps we should all have a little fun. Submit your suggestions to the Your Freedom website and then post them in the comments below. The best, wittiest, or soundest ideas will get a t-shirt…
Billy Liar
Get rid of the Lisbon Treaty
European Human Rights Act. Replace it with something that gives the law abiding citizen rights.
the irony of a bunch of ex commie and ex nazi europeans telling us what our human rights are
Make MPs subject of employment law and introduce terms and conditions of employment that are similar to the public sector. Make them subject to the Nolan standards for public life. We could start their terms of employment with a pay and expense freeze. Pay tax on expenses. Pay tax on flipping second homes. In fact they should not be allowed second homes on the backs of the taxpayer. Bring an independent body to scrutinise their behaviour and finances- not the inept IPSA or Commissioner but someone who actually does the job. MPs not allowed to employ spouses or special advisers after all equal opps are rammed down the throats of everyone else and that is what the civil service is for. Not allowed to make a fortune after leaving office ie former prime minister. If found guilty seize his/her assets and off-shore trusts. Be able to dispense with the services of politicians much easier. Do not let disgraced ministers back into the cabinet. Make politicians tell the truth. Is this too much to ask?
steady Rita there trouble at mill
They are all guilty of terminlogical inexactitudes. So don’t rely on Mandelson’s memoirs for accurate history. Meanwhile cheesy-grin Blair and his avaricious wife sail off into the sunset with more millions.
Weed for all
You have to login and register on the site,it’s data mining.
that sounds like freedom
That’s what put me off. It isn’t ‘open’ to every visitor at all.
Oh, fuck me, it’s another site you’ve got to register with in order to post or rate ideas.
Yep. You have to ‘get involved’… yuk.
Uhm, obviously, if you’re going to post ideas or rate existing ones.
Why make the process of ‘getting involved’ more complicated than it needs to be? Basically some nerds in an IT department sat down and had a good long think about how to over-complicate the solution.
I wanted to rate ideas without joining some half-arsed club to do so.
It’s soooooooooooo ssssssssssssllllllllllllllooooooooooooow!
But what makes you think that you have to give honest or identifying details to register?
remove benefits from anybody who has voted labour in the last 5 years
Remove the head from anybody who has voted Labour in the last 5 years.
I’d suggest that operation must have already been performed on anyone who voted thus.
They’ll still manage a postal vote!
Yes!
And stuff it up their ringpiece.
Hear Hear!!
Remove the financial assets of all Labourite MP’s and supporters and deport them.
Make being a Labour MP a capital offence.
On the BBC breakfast news they did a voxpop and one old woman said that they should ban football.
Looking at England’s performance recently, I thought that they already had!!!
She was cool, as were the other cantabridians of her generation — smoking and hunting were on that board.
Sadly though, the true face of Cambridge was the washed-out middle-aged hippy woman who said, “It’s not up to the public to change the laws…” like the good little lefty droid she was.
two number 3′s.Snap Ms Tickles
Cool! I was told many years ago that database design made such events impossible.
I’ll have a number 2.
On my rocking horse.
And a toffee apple.
Repeal all laws and loopholes that allow Ed Balls to be a Huhning oxygen thief.
Deport every raghead muzee Huhne.
Deport anyone with a name that sounds like Hoon.
Second prize is two T-shirts?
a triage system for crime reporting. if the victim is a criminal then the police don’t follow it up
This I like, rather like burglars should be leaving their ‘ooman rights at the door when they break in to help themselves to your property.
Here’s a good place to start Mr Plod:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1290933/Gipsies-illegal-site-allowed-lay-water-pipes-council-despite-court-order.html
The police are too scared to visit most of the travellers’ sites around here.
They don’t mind residents taking the brunt though. The Public Sector: not only holding our coat, but wearing it and selling it to the highest bidder on Ebay.
That’s a fact.The pikeys will not take any shit from the cops at all ,and they are armed to the teeth and the cops don’t want to start a war.says something for arming eh?
It’s got nothing to do with force. The police are only too willing to tool up and give the public a kicking, but only if it is politically correct to do so.
Going in against the pikeys is NOT politically correct and the paperwork and compulsory diversity courses to cope with the allegations of racial discrimination would be a nightmare…
That is why the police turn a blind eye. They are not afraid of the pikeys, they can’t be arsed with the bureaucratic hassle of being accused of racism.
Mention the word ‘Frankham’ to our fuzz and they turn white and start trembling.
Nah, they’re scared shitless.
There is a huge open space near where I live and many years ago the Pikey’s drove their wagons onto it. The Police were powerless, the council was powerless.
The local yobs set fire to a couple of caravans and they were off in 2 seconds flat. Funnily enough they have never come back in decades now. Seem averse to takin on the locals. Police never did find the culprits to the arson.
No real change there then, now they just don’t turn up.
Cut our financial contributions to the EU by at least the same percentage that UK government spending is being reduced.
Not being able to beat my wife – what a fucking ridiculous law.
Weed too – legalise it, oh and fox hunting.
In fact, i want to be able to hunt foxes with hounds whilst smoking weed and when i get home i should be allowed to give my wife a good fucking kicking.
You and who’s army you pathetic little weed?
Welcome ladies and gentlemen, to order order.com’s weekly ‘sense of fucking humour fail awards’.
This mornings winner goes to, (drum roll)………………..the wanker at post 21!!!!
Congratulations.
Or even the post at 23.
CP, you seem to be having the sense of humour failure old chap.
post 14 made me smile
post 23 made me laff
post 44 written by some self important tosser
I think that you should only be allowed to hunt foxes in your bedroom.
Mind you, the horses might struggle with the stairs.
Not my Henry. He could take the stairs in his stride.
and in the babies cots
That’s a cracking idea for the village fete…
How many cots with sleeping babies can Henry jump over?
guido, can you please leave out the pop-up? it just hangs my computer (not on broadband).
Thats Guido oppressing the poor again!
Download Firefox, download Flashblock. No more ads! No more popups! Sorted.
i have to use chrome at home. firefox is bordering on unuseable.
and i am at home a fuck of a lot as i work for the government.
You can block flash with Chrome, too, but it’s not as simple. You need to google for a script, which you must install (I forget where) and start Chrome with the options “C:\Users\Tessa\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe –enable-user-scripts”
Actually, it looks like there is a Flashblock plugin for Chrome now, but I’ve not tried it. I use some Javascript thingy.
But I am not called Tessa. Do I have to change my name in order to use your solution?
\Tessa\ will need changing on his PC
No, just your user-name.
don’t be a nerd tessa…this a blog not GeeksRus
Flashblock for Chrome doubleplusgood. Saves a small fortune if you’re browsing this site via a 3g dongle too.
Use lynx in Solaris!
LMAO!!!
Mr Ned, I like your style!
Get a Macintosh and thus get a life – MP3 Player, Phone and Pad all synch with your Mac and you can simply tell the Mac to block all pop-ups no matter which browser you use.
YAWN…..
Taking our eye off the ball are we Guido. Nonsense to make you think you are involved. If they get 100,000 responses who the fuck is gonna trawl throught them. Yep NO ONE
FT DOWN AGAIN !!!!!!!!
11th day in a row.
Double dip here we come
I do hope so. There are still some scented candle shops lurking on the high street. A double-dip should see ‘em off.
And you’re absolutely right about no one trawling through the responses. It’s like the petition thing on the Number 10 website.. an exercise in pretending the government’s listening. Still, it keeps the proles happy.
Yup! When Clegg was asked if they got an overwhelming response demanding to withdraw from the EU, would the government do it.
Can you guess what Clegg said?
orders from the muppet coalition?
oh, and expand the definition of ‘criminal’ to include Labour voters, benefit claimants and scousers
I thought benefits claimants and Scousers were all Labo*r voters, as are immigrants, criminals, public sector workers, Mancs, Jocks, Geordies and some Brummies and Cockneys.
do dont do da doh do dee
We spent 80k on a cannabis coffee shop in Bournemouth.Labour gave very strong signals that they were going to make it legal,so much so even the cops thought it would happen.Most of the cannabis on the streets at the time was poisonous soapbar which we educated people about. We had a very strict policy of no one under 18 allowed in,No other drugs were allowed,only members could buy and smoke in the separate cannabis room,there was a front and rear part to it. The BBC money program filmed it all and new statesman ran a feature on it. Labour cost us a lot of money and owe us big time.
Yeah, we all though that at the time. Thankfully, for my conscience, I was too stoned in ’97 to get off my ocelot-skin divan and vote Labour!
What to repeal: Every budget since 1908.
And the Parliament act!!!
Lower the age of puberty
So-called ‘improvement grants’ for unions, which is nothing less than handing over taxpayers’ cash in return for the unions handing over the same cash as a ‘donation’ to NuLiebour.
Sorry, not witty at all. In fact, distinctly un-funny in my view.
Prison for defrauding the taxpayer. You know what I mean. Public servants drawing a salary but not actually turning up at work. Are you listening McDoom?
laws for MP’s that apply to us apply to them
Yes McBust, I believe that the word ‘servant’ is something to do with serving others, rather than helping yourself to an MP’s salary and expenses, not to mention your obscenely generous PM’s pension, while sitting at home watching the footie and those hot young ladies at Wimbledon?
More likely keeping a keen eye on the ball boys.
Or the boys’ balls.
High chairs for speakers
Seriously; get rid of the funding of millions of pounds for the unions from the DfID (why on earth is this done?); and secondly allow pubs to be smoking or non-smoking as they wish.
Guido go fuck yourself mate. If workers need protection by their union then you cannot expect those reps to go without pay whilst they organise it.
Well I’m the union spam
Amazed at what I am
I don’t give a damn
for bread n ham
as long as they don’t get jam
I think he is suggesting that those with a vested interest should pay for it, not the taxpayer as a whole.
No one does expect them to do that. Just don’t see why it should be paid for by the taxpayer. What are union dues for if not that?
A socialist will never ever be capable of comprehending your logic, so I wouldn’t waste time trying to explain it.
workers need protecting #from# their unions.
the NUM finished coal mining in the UK
the RMT is pricing train drivers out of work – the underground will become automated
And the RMT is pricing Caledonian MacBrayne’s ferry services out of existence too.
Absolutely correct, so the Union should pay for their services not the employer.
So what are Union Dues for- to pay for Union Staff – Simples! (well, for some)
Scrap the £500m a year paid to the BBC out of central funds, ostensibly as compensation for free licences for over 75′s. Pay for it by cutting outrageously overpaid “star” salaries. Who gives a fuck if various crappy light entertainers piss off to ITV or Sky?
And as for the BBC newsroom, it has become so utterly dysfunctional that a complete clearout of anyone on more than £100k a year would improve the quality of output beyond all recognition. Replace them with cheap and unflashy, but honest and impartial, journalists and watch the quality soar.
Not long ago they were calling themselves “the show”
Any more than £100k????? There’d be no one left to man the ship. Shrapnel, absolute shrapnel.
Waaaaaaaaaaa boooooooooooo hoooooo wage cuts sob sob sob
Handguns back , full auto weaponry (for whites only)
Out of the EU
Death penalty for walking about with your pants around your buttocks
Homosexuality outlawed and punishable with a flogging on first offence then death
Christianity in all schools
Child molestors to be publicly crucified with murderers getting the same punishment
very restrained
This is moderate and I support it
a ‘progressive consensus’ has been reached!
I’m not joking
REALLY
Ask any African (a real one) what they do to local scum bags
F uck all this soft stuff it doesnt work this is why we are in the state we are in, When the lights go off and we have no food then the penny will drop for the sheep
GOOD
africa may not be the best example for us to follow, but i do like your idea for ‘rehabilitating’ people who don’t wear belts
I was walking behind a yoof the other day. Not only were his trousers hanging around his buttocks, but he was wearing pink underpants.
I think, under Beast’s dictum, he should be flogged and then hanged. Excellent.
Not at all keen on Christianity in schools, though.
Paganism. The real stuff.
Tough but fair
That’s just so vague and spineless, Beast, but it is at least a start I suppose. Truth is, we were hoping for something a little more demanding from you.
Mrs Tickles
PINK UNDERPANTS?
fU**
You should have just asked him why he was wearing dem
“Yo momma buy them fo yoos??”
Would the public crucifictions take place near to schools inn order to demonstrate the suffering of Jesus Christ on the cross to our revitalised Christian youth?
On school grounds during assembly
My old beak would have approved
He once paraded myself and several others then made us bend over and thrashed us in front of the entire school for bullying younger boys
Beast is a mere youngster of 47
My how times have changed
Don’t be such a liberal softy wuss Beast,
We have the technology available now whereby we can literally kill someone and then bring them back to life.
This opens up the exciting opportunity to be able to engage in multiple death sentences for individual criminals. Kill them, revive them and then kill them again, and go on killing them until they are thoroughly rehabilitated, or proper dead!
What is not to like about that proposal? Oh and yes I am totally and deadly serious!
Yes
I like your train of thought
Bring back the wolf pit or death by a thousand cuts
Our Viking and Chinese friends knew a thing or two about punishments
They also know a thing or two about reliable cars and cheap furniture
blood eagling is my favourite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_eagle
FT100 index 3 months before election bounced around 5900
FT100 just before election bounced around 5800
FT100 since election 4900.
Fall of 18% + since Coalition.
you cock. look at the ftse since it started in 1984 http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^FTSE
13 years under conservatives – 300% rise
13 years under labour – slight downwards trend but with 2 almighty booms and busts
the present ftse is just about euro problems, bp oil spill and worries about a second world recession. good time to buy i reckon
Correct. I have posted that FTSE link to lefties quite often since 2001 when the first bust started. Looking at that chart from 1984 – now shows very very clearly who is responsible for boom and bust.
Ermmm….say stupid, seen the Dow, seen the CAC, seen the DAX….Sorry, the wouldn’t understand, would you.
Brown, Bush, Greenspan, Benranke, Trichet and Merv the Swerve have f**ked the western economies. Overloaded with debt, no further demand nothing except debt – everywhere – but particularly UK plc. We are nothing more than a housing ponzi scheme. Made and constructed by Messrs Bliar and Brown.
FTSE since election 4900….you ain’t seen nothing yet, tw@!
Remember what I said,if you don’t then tough shit.
Make sure they don’t repeal the law that says archers must practice on the beach every night,or the last legal weapon we have will be taken away,there is an arsehole plant on the site calling for it to be repealed,obviously a plant. i hope his friends beat him up tonight.
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1274/modv.jpg
Bring back Salt n Shake crisps!
Outlaw Ready-Salted and mandate the use of the small blue sachet in every bag of snacks. Spin it as a health measure.
And start a compo fund for the first mouthbreather to put all the salt on one crisp and gives himself kidney faiure.
Still available in Tesco and Waitrose. I think it’s in blue and white packaging, branded “Smiths Crisps by Walkers”.
Asda sell ‘em too. Trouble is, with modern low-fat crisps, there’s nothing for the salt to cling on to. Maybe a new law to bring back high-fat crisps …
the freedom to offend
If my black neighbor wants to call me a honky he should be allowed to,reciprocate.
I can’t help noticing that this site works almost as badly as all the other HMG sites we’ve become accustomed to over the last few years. Presumably the coalition can’t do IT either.
This is the culprit
http://www.peter-j.co.uk/
So the civil service employs about a trillion people, but it has to outsource its web design to some bloke sitting in his bedroom?
Yeah, he understands CSS and cross-browser compatibility!
I bet he’s never heard of Lynx, though. (or even the deodorant of the same name.)
I run it on Windows. Impressed?
Peter Jobes, isn’t he Clegg’s spotty nephew back from his gap-between-the-ears?
# Coroner Inquests with Juries
# No torture
# No “control orders” without trial
# No imprisonment without trial
# No stop and search without reasonable suspicion
# No detention without charge
# Freedom to live and work anywhere in the UK
# The right to remain silent
# The right to a lawyer of MY choice
# The right to freedom of association
# The right to Free Speech
# The removal of RIPA powers
# Freedom to communicate in private
# The right to receive unopened Mail
# The right to freely leave the UK
# The right to check into a hotel anonymously
# The removal of all surviellance databases, including fingerprinting children
# Removal of RFID chips from documents
# Removal of the National Identity Register
# Ridiculous CRB checks
# Forcing private companies such as banks to record “terrorist like” behaviour
# Criticism of sexual behaviour is not a hate crime
# The right to peaceful protest
# Police able to disperse “groups of people”
# Bailiffs able to “restrain” people in their own homes
# Terror laws used to freeze Icelandic bank accounts
# Civil Contingencies Act
# Removal of ANPR tracking software
# Trial by Jury
# The right to defend myself on my own property
# Curfews for entire communities
cant really say much more than “i agree with old holborn”
I agree with nick
illegal immigrant workers paid 20k for handing themselves in. hiring company fined 30k. job done in about a day. the 10k difference x 1 million can go in reducing cider taxes to -50p per litre
Seconded.
Is that on your facebook?if not it will be shortly.
Excellent, OH. May I also add the dismantling of the secretive and totally unaccountable money-making scam called ACPO please.
The executions of all those that made these laws
Bang on!!!
Scrap the Parliament act and repeal most statutes. Go back to the Bill of rights and common law!!!
It certainly seems good enough for Chaytor, Devine, Morely et al.
Lets wish him luck and to stay away from woods,or wall paper.
U.N. nuclear agency’s top inspector resigns
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6601CZ20100701
Wise man… get out before the UN team’s held on spying charges in Iran.
You heard it here first.
Repeal Section 44 and all the other half-baked kneejerk legislation
Oh and as a law-abiding Citizen I would like my right to licenced handguns back as well.
Ditto. I could have done some good in North West Cumbria a few weeks ago and saved a life or two.
Am I right in thinking that the English Bill of Rights enshrines a right to bear arms too?
BP are going to admit later today they cannot cap the Gulf leak
leaking oil is natural. look at the tar pits where they find all the dinosaur bones.
anyway, why can’t submarines use it to refuel?
The same reason you aren’t allowed out without your carer. Beacuse it’s retarded.
Do not feed the mongs
Oil is fine , is how to stop the spics pourin over the border
Yesterday in Greece
http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/0/bml5E2gBuDk
Another case of unions destroying a country — a nice relaxing holiday in Greece anyone?
Incorperate the Darwin Awards into the new years honours list.
Guido your homeland government must still think your all tik oirishmen
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2010/0701/1224273708396.html
The union modernisation fund should be scrapped as it seems to be a way of giving taxpayers money to the unions so they can give it to the Labour party.
I agree, this site is getting a litle silly. On a serious note … taxpayers money going to unions should definately be banned. As a lot of union money ends up in the NuLiebore coffers, we taxpayers who hate what Nuliebore have done to this country (especially England), are actually funding them – it’s a disgrace. Also, many Union members are Conservative voters who have no say about their money being used to prop up NuLiebore. Their only chose is whether they want union membership or not and not where they want their money to go. The Government should sort this out without delay
Correction:- that should read their only choice
little
definitely
110 – and, while you’re about it, why not correct “definately” and “taxpayers”, to ‘definitely’, and ‘taxpayers’ ‘?
You can either work for the state or vote, but not both. It’s a straightforward conflict of interest.
ie only conservatives allowed to vote
Beast Is spot on. Natural selection to return, and the pink pant arse hanging out brigade can get sent to Coventry.
Cut off the genitalia of anybody pissing up my block of flats.
Abolish all licenses
Repeal the Lisbon Treaty
leave the EU
abolish compulsary State education ” The murder machine”
End the occupation by Britain of parts of Afghanistan and Ireland
Strip Prince Charles of his title of Colonel in Chief of the Parachute Regiment.
make it illegal for Governments to to submit anything other than a balanced budget. Public debt is anti democratic.
Repeal the 1967 abortion Act.
Make St Georges day a public holiday in England.
restore the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.
Bring back fruit salads and black jacks at 8 per old penny.
There that would be a start!!
And chocolate cigarette sweets
Sugar mice and taking a Webley air pistol to school without getting shot at by a spotty youth in a black uniform
Anyone heard of a band called “The Fox Attack Twins”?
No, but I’m looking forward to them immensely.
the freedom to chose what tv subscrition i want to pay for.
60 brit on edge it was us who gave them the HRA not them us dumkoff And as noo labour have abolished nearly all of our freedoms thank God there is one to protect us
Well said. British contributions to the history of the world’s freedoms aren’t something most Brits seem to be too hot on. I really wish that Washington had fought his British civil war on this side of the Atlantic, as we might then not have been bogged down in the authoritarian crap that we’re in today
Laws to repeal: David Laws.
http://fxbites.blogspot.com/2010/07/and-for-my-next-trick.html
“Repeal the European Communities Act 1972″ should be left on that site by every single British resident that wishes this country to regain democracy. Surely a proper campaign can be organised to encourage participation? Embarrasing the Government, and mobilising an effective anti EU movement (not those UKIP twonks) in this country is what is needed.
http://peterreynolds.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/no-more-obvious-waste-than-uks-19-billion-war-on-drugs/
The coalition government’s new Your Freedom website launched only this morning is crashing under the strain of a massive outcry from British people for the state to back off and give us back our freedoms.
Repeal the joint Extradition Treaty with the USA we never signed it anyway.
What OH said, but free my weed and thoroughly investigate local govt of all stamps.
My freedom would not to be a SINNER everyday.
Bacon and egg breakfast too much salt and fat. SINNER.
Drive to work destroying planet. SINNER
Drive to Mcdonalds lunchtime, too much fat, salt and destroying planet. SINNER
Driving home buying meal & beer, too much salt, fat, alcohol & destroying planet. SINNER
Drinking beer, too much alcohol and being binge drinker. SINNER
Don’t like being in EEC. SINNER
Please free me from these afflictions being a SINNER.
Keep on SINNING you seem like a normal person to me.
Couldn’t get on to the site, but
‘the freedom to more succinctly describe any politician who is a hypocritically pious homunculus’
would be top of my list
Repeal the murder laws just long enough for someone to slot B£air
I have suggested the repeal of the bigamy law on the basis that there are rarely prosecutions. Why does a government have laws that aren’t enforced? For those who are worried about registering it doesn’t say that any of the information you give has to be truthful and I am very keen for Big Brother to use the email I supplied! Can you guess it from the name?
My freedom would be that EVERYBODY SHOULD GET STONED
My freedom would be to get shot of all these so called engerland football stars but i need £12,000,000 quid.
my freedom would be not to be forced to understudy frank lampards englands football star wag on gmtv.
My freedom would be to live long enough to see england as a muslim country.
It won’t be long but my bones are aching through living in damp houses in peckham.
my freedom would have been to get shot of GUIDO FAWKES