Should
the Prime Minister have visited Sri Lanka given the country's
questionable human rights record? Given that the Prime Minister has
brought considerable media attention to the issues by becoming the first
world leader to visit the north of the
country recently and also visiting the offices of a newspaper burnt down
on more than one occasion, I think that, on balance, I'm in favour of
his visit providing that he continues to press the issue when he returns
from the Commonwealth summit.
Unfortunately while supporting freedoms abroad, closer to home his government is using the Anti Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill to reduce freedoms at home. If passed, in future it might take just a few grumpy, blinkered, its-nothing-to-do-with-me, I'm-all-for-a-quiet-life types, of whom there is not exactly a shortage, to ban legitimate protest in England and Wales.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/councils-to-be-given-powers-to-ban-peaceful-protests-that-might-disturb-local-residents-8940535.html
Unfortunately while supporting freedoms abroad, closer to home his government is using the Anti Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill to reduce freedoms at home. If passed, in future it might take just a few grumpy, blinkered, its-nothing-to-do-with-me, I'm-all-for-a-quiet-life types, of whom there is not exactly a shortage, to ban legitimate protest in England and Wales.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/councils-to-be-given-powers-to-ban-peaceful-protests-that-might-disturb-local-residents-8940535.html
Councils to be given powers to ban peaceful protests that might disturb local residents
www.independent.co.uk
Peaceful
protests could be outlawed on the sole grounds that they might annoy
nearby residents under contentious new powers being granted to co
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