Councils Launch 20,000 Spying Missions on Fairy Light Thieves and Illegal Crab Sellers

This is one of the great headlines. As Jacqui Smith creates her army of 60,000 to fight terrorism, presumably they will all have these powers too. OK, swivel-eyers, I do quote the Torygraph in this blog as well as the Antichrist Gazette [Guardian]. These powers must go! But will the Tories promise to abolish them? [The Liberals, as always, don't count] I saw a poster yesterday, with a telephone number for anonymous denunciation of people who you think might be terrorists...Ah, the spirit of Stalin lives on! Here comes the Great British Purge. Labour camps for re-education purposes will be where exactly?