<call me a reactionary if you like, but I do think people have a right not to live in fear of intimidation from folk with thuggish attitudes> So do I: trouble is the ASBO legislation seems to be used in a pretty elastic way. One persons 'undesirable' is another persons liberty. It's a badly thought out populist seen-to-be-doing-something measure.
The House of Lords 'reform' really is negligible - they simply haven't done what they said they'd do.
Minimum wage - fair enough. Section 28 - yes, NuLab done good there.
But they've such a massive majority they could've done anything...and they've generally used it to be as authoritarian than Michael Howard ever was and as business-freindly as business would like.
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