I think our freedoms have been eroded in the last 15 years,Do you think that in the U.K. we could have them ?

Question

back?This question is mainly for the U.K. where I believe our liberty and privacy have been partly eaten away,do you disagree?Whose fault do you think it is?

Answer 1

Its since New Labour and go'es hand in hand with the ambitions of the EU superstate, not to mention US paranoia and globalisation..

We can only get our freedoms back with revolution.. Poll tax riots spring to mind..

Answer 2

Yeah, there was a letter in the daily telegraph today, the guy said it was like we were being treated like Europes open prison - with ideas of tracking devices on our cars, compulsary ID cards, men sifting through our bins to make sure we recycle, kids packed lunches being checked, the millions of cctv cameras and the like.  Its kind of spooky, like Nineteen Eighty-Four... I wish I could emigrate, but I just can't afford to.

Answer 3

It would take someone with real balls to do that but they only do stuff they think will be popular with voters. I wish they would listen the people and find out what we really want!

No more immigrants draining the benefits system.

No more free housing for immigrants - British people first for a change.

No more political interference in the NHS - let them get on with it.

Answer 4

Yeah, people can scream and holler about this one but the smoking ban is one issue where human rights have been violated. Then when some writers wish to get published, they have to "alter" their books to fit in with the PC idealism. We have adverts on top of adverts invading our television viewing times plus we have pin numbers to activate anything these days. Only certain people get publicised when they lose children aka those with money and those without get pushed to the side. We've got CCTV watching our every move even though we might be a good person, it still makes you nervous.

There are witch hunts out for smokers, Muslims, obesity and so on. Even alcohol is targeted, so our ancient traditions such as the pub are going downhill and fading fast. Some idiots are trying to tell us what to eat, what to do in our own homes because of a few idiots who ruin it for everybody else so we all get penalised. Then you get those hypocritical celebs and super rich beings who tell us not to fly but then they use their posh, private jets whilst the rest of us gets banged for taxes. I work abroad so have to fly usually and it is too expensive and nobody is doing anything about it!!!!

Kids of 15 and 16 are getting charged adult fares on buses and trains when the law says that they are not legally adult, so why charge them at full rate, it's not like they have a full-time job yet.

People blame Europe but it's the UK whose at fault, the government. Europe doesn't have video ratings or such PC nonsense as this country and the states do/does.. There are so many other things wrong, where do we draw the line?

The answer??? A revolution, a peaceful one to obtain liberty and freedom for us all.

Answer 5

There are very few things in the UK you can do unless you have permission or a license.Freedom has to be earned and is not a right according to government,

So the innocent are persecuted because of the actions of the minority lawless morons.

DID SOMEONE SAY REVOLUTION,WHEN AND WHERE I WILL BE THERE.

Answer 6

You will never get them back, at times the UK is more like a police state. I blame Labour and their cavalier attitude toward the wants of the people of this once Great country.

Answer 7

Yeah, and it's not just the government, I see young kids playing on the green outside being told to play elsewhere, and they're not bad kids, if you're a bloke you daren't look at them and it goes on and on. Thing with people now they only want the freedoms they agree with.  Too many grumpy people about and the authorities try to please them all.

Answer 8

i think it will take a long time to get those freedoms back... the UK has had such a weak government and opposition for so long it will be hard to go back  

Answer 9

Landlubber, not only has our freedom been eroded, our language has been as well.

Answer 10

DUH, suddenly people are waking up. I've been banging on about this for the last 2 years! Kept getting thumbs down. kept being called names, kept being abused by YA users.

Answer 11

No, I don't agree. What freedoms have you lost? We have gained Freedom of Information so Government really is accountable to the people, we're free to move or live anywhere in the EU, we have more rights to fair employment and a proper minimum wage, devolved administrations meaning those regions are free to govern as they see fit  ...

People like you always whinge about how bad things are but you never give examples. I think the only way your freedoms would have been eroded would be if you've gone to prison!

Answer 12

Were you here last night when a frothy-mouthed posse of regulars were spitting blood and venom against a certain individual and anyone else who might conceivably think about being unwilling to join in the 10-minute hate?

If you look down some of these answers, you see where the blame squarely lies for the erosion of liberties.  Once their precedent has been set, it won't be long before they go for Muslims, Jobseekers, Roman Catholics, and then on down the list.

I even heard talk of supporting measures to place all husbands and fathers under constant suspicion because of what they, as men, might be thinking of doing.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.  I salute you for being with me in reclaiming some lost ground.

Edit - Celtic Saint's answer got a thumbs-up from me, but displays a degree of hypocrisy considering what he went on to write: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

"1) String him up & strip him naked

2) Cut him 5000 times with a razor blade

3) Lower slowly into vinegar

4) Hold a party".

Is this the freedom he has in mind?

Answer 13

Yes, our freedoms and liberties have been eroded drastically over the last 30 or so years.

This morning, I walked past the entrance to Downing Street in Whitehall here in London.  You have never seen so much ironwork and anti-tank traps since the Siegfried Line.

No.10 Downing Street

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...

Back in the days of freedom here in UK, I used to regularly walk through Downing Street to the end passing the statue of Robert Clive and then on over Horseguards towards St. James's Park.

You cannot do that today.  We are no longer at liberty to walk freely on a Common London Street.

The elected leaders of UK have so distanced themselves from the people that democratic government is no longer an option for UK.  What we have instead is fortress government - they stand behind iron gates and order us about, watching us on secret CCTV cameras.

England is now like something out of Lord of the Flies.

The United Nations recently said that UK is no longer a free democracy and that the UK.gov had better sort out the mess before it's too late.

An American friend of mine politely suggest "Civil Disobedience" as possibly being the solution to UK's illness and lacklustre democratic sham.

Surely I said, that's what the French do!  You know, man the barricades etc?

Yes, he replied and that's why they have a democracy and you in UK don't.

Britons awake.

Answer 14

Whose fault?  Ours for letting it happen.  

I doubt we will get them back without a fight.  And if that happens, anyone protesting physically about the laws the government have brought in will be accused of Terrorism, and banged up in a detention centre to rot. - You will not be classed as a freedom fighter in your own country.

Answer 15

I believe the Uk is 10yrs behind the Usa , so we have much worse to come, and how do you get it back? start a revolution seems the only way to me, otherwise we shall all just continue being sheep... And its all our fault for not taking a stand, which is also very hard these days as opinions an such aren't pc anymore, Society as a whole has gawn greedy and power crazy!  

Answer 16

It would take some doing.

If someone, of any political persuasion, from the 70's saw the situation now they would be appalled.

It is going towards, or maybe already is, a police state.

This has been a slow process, and those under about 30 are already assimilated to accept these infringements on freedom as "normal".

It is the fault of the nebulous movement that has caused this change,

In the UK I think it all started in earnest with new labour, (with the grounwork laid by Maggie), who by any reckoning are not what they pretended to be, in order to get elected, and which turned out to be a control freak of a government.

It is of course also our fault, unfortunately the majority don't see, because their lives are so dumbed down they have lost the power of independent thought, give them TV, playstations, an annual holiday, celebrities to worship, and terrorists to fear-that adds up to freedom, for them.

Answer 17

They went,when Edward Heath signed us up for the EEC in the late 1960s!