Reply #13: New Labour has a worrying taste for autocracy [View All]

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but their ability to bring their meglomaniac ambitions into reality is hindered by their complete incompetence. This government can not install and operate the most basic of IT systems. Getting a true 'Big Brother' operation up and running is way beyond their pathetic capabilities. All they do is pour endless millions of taxpayers money into the hands of unscrupulous management consultants and devious IT suppliers who willingly play up to their delusional fantasies. These corporations know a sucker when they meet one and Blair's administration certainly falls into that category. If you want a police state then the totalitarian regimes of the 1930s did it more effectively and at a fraction of the cost.