Nick Clegg Invites You to Cut Red Tape

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Nick Clegg has invited fellow Britons to help cut red-tape by urging Brits to complain endlessly about unnecessary and excessive laws.

A new government website has been launched, called Your Freedom, which wants you to get involved with issues by commenting, rating or even submitting the things you want to see changing. The site has been relatively slow to respond all day, probably under the might of those people who are wanting to legalise cannabis (which could be taxed of course, you can’t get away that easily).

One interesting and potentially positive result of this new campaign to weed out the legacy of Labour, is that now there is a platform for the public and tech-geeks to criticise the Digital Economy Bill (as recommended by Boing Boing) and get it repealed or replaced.

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Digital Economy Bill Passed

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Astonishingly, the Digital Economy Bill passed and it is a heavy punch to the face for democracy. I’ve touched on the bill before (Dan Bull notably made fun of it when it was first proposed) and I don’t feel the need to go over everything again.

How things have changed… Even on the 2nd of April, my MP, Mark Todd (a notable opponent of the bill) was sure that it wouldn’t go through immediately and doing so would be undemocratic and pretty much bat-shit insane.

Peter Mandelson has the music industry’s cock swirling around in his mouth and I hope the music and movie industry are very happy.

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