Quoted from www.ntk.net this week:


Think you had a bad week? Well, you did. You just didn't hear about it. First up: after extraordinary scenes in the House of Lords on Wednesday, the government managed to push through its five standing orders of the apocalypse - to let a smorgasbord of local authorities monitor email and phone traffic, plus proposals to force ISPs to retain traffic data. All the proposals have been watered down a little
since they were first aired. But it's all still pretty bad,as was indicated by the Tories' desperate attempt to introduce a "fatal amendment". Fatal amendments - which basically add "This house believes the following law should be taken outside and shot:" - are the Nuke-From-Orbit of the Lords' arsenal. They haven't been successfully used in the
House for thirty years. Taken aback by this approach, the government went on the offensive, threatening to use similiar tactics on future Tory administrations. It all got a bit nastily party-political from there on in. When the mist cleared, the Lib-Dems had caved on data retention, the Tories went off muttering about doing some angry squeaking in the Commons, and we got a fistful of bad law. Worse: you didn't know any of it was happening until it was far too late.
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