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Before she was in power, Theresa May did a very good impersonation of someone who cared about civil liberties.
But like any good Tory – scratch the surface and May is a good old-fashioned authoritarian at heart.
In fact, since she became Home Secretary, May has been slowly turning Britain into a civil liberties free zone:
May to increase state surveillance powers with Snooper’s Charter
Theresa May censoring 1,000 pieces of information every week on the internet
Home Office to spend £1.8 billion on listening to our private phone calls
Secret Courts: accused may not know what crime they are accused of
Government ushers in ID cards through the back door
Human Rights Act to be scrapped
UK schools to be forced to hand over information on pupils
Government classifies non-violent activism as terrorism
Theresa May’s plans to vet TV programmes before broadcast
Ministers to be allowed to veto Freedom of Information requests
Theresa May condones detention of journalists under anti-terrorism act
Home Office threatens 7-year-old with deportation
Theresa May bars US investigative journalist from UK
Expect more of this now she’s PM.
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PS. It would be nice if May could also explain why documents relating to VIP sex crimes are being kept secret from the public until as long as 2056:
link: National Archives
link: National Archives
But I won’t be holding my breath
Pride's Purge 
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she’s like me tom a church goer but only god knows on what the Sunday services are there.
her father was a pastor but it hasn’t helped may in adopting good sound political judgement based on equality
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she is soon to be confronted with opposition. remember the tories have an illegal majority. tory voters are imbeciles.!!!!
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With all the antisemitism in the Labour Party right now, I can’t understand why anyone would object to this strong woman.
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Of all the measures you mention, none have affected me, but then I have nothing to hide.
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Yes, she’s been continuing the erosion of civil liberties started by Tony Blair and New Labour… and which is still actively supported by most of the Labour PLP.
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If there is no opposition inside parliament then we need to build it outside parliament
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This is another piece in which the good Mr Pride lays out the true character of the new government. And it’s as ugly as that picture of her in Private Eye’s ‘lookalikes’ showing her next to the Emperor Palpatine from ‘Star Wars’. She stands of the expansion of the secret state, more surveillance, the Kafkaesque system of ‘secret courts’ in which you may not even know the crime for which you have been arrested and charged, the arrest of journalists under the terrorism laws, and the attempted deportation of a seven year old child. Meanwhile, the great and powerful charged with sex crimes are protected from having the details of their offences revealed for over three quarters of a century and more. Despite the specious verbiage she uttered when she was appointed by the Tory faithful, she is very much ‘for the privileged few’. But with the right-wing papers demanding ever more harder measures against terrorists, like the animal, who destroyed 84 lives in Nice yesterday, she’ll no doubt be popular with a frightened populace, unaware that the laws she’s imposing are against them as much as any Islamist.
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Freedom of speech is an American concept!
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