Laws should be made by elected representatives not by newspapers

Watching Labour politicians taking their orders from the Sun and the News of the World is dispiriting. Worse than that it is dangerous. What sort of democracy are we becoming?

Link to News Digest of 20 June 2006

Laws should be enforced by the Police not by vigilantes

When a police chief constable has to point out that the policy with which the government is flirting would create crime and disorder (this year in the US five people have been murdered "by people who have accessed the sex offenders register, gone to their houses and killed them.") we are in trouble.

Judges should sentence criminals, not MPs

The sight of both the Tory and Labour leader trying to bind the hands of judges is appalling.

Voters should decide elections and vote by secret ballot

Few things have been more shameful than Labour's suspension of the secret ballot. Indiscriminate postal voting means that many (perhaps especially women) have lost the right to cast their vote in secret. Peter Riddell writing in the Times last week highlighted some of the issues involved

The need for action has been underlined by the various scandals over postal and other vote frauds revealed in The Times. The Electoral Commission has for some time recommended changes to improve security. The key one is the replacement of household registration, under which all the names in a house are signed off by a head of household, by individual registration. This requires individual identifiers such as a signature and registration number, a national insurance number, for example.

Link to Labour has last chance to tackle vote fraud

What can you do?

If you are a Member of the Labour Party, resign now! Tell them why, but do it!

Send an e-mail to Nick Clegg to support his stance on sentencing and on pandering to the press

Link to Nick Clegg's Home Office webpage

Or go the whole way.