UK's new surveillance law is freaking nuts

[Phony Moderate]

this is what you get when you elect tories - although Labour should have opposed this much, much more vocally that they did since its a poisonous bit of legislation that goes well, well beyond anything that the government should be doing.

Many in the Blairite faction of the party are (and have long been) enthusiastic about this kind of legislation, although curiously many of those same people claim to represent the 'non-statist' school of thought in the party.