The Government’s Counter Terrorism Bill has now moved to debate in the House of Lords. The Liberal Democrats opposed the bill in the House of Commons for a simple reason: this bill does little to keep us safe, but a lot to erode the individual freedoms of people in the UK.
In the future we might have a Government who are prepared to ride roughshod over our freedoms as citizens.
Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights, and the human rights group Liberty have both said that this bill is wrong in balancing security and individual freedoms.
It’s a huge authoritarian overreach. This is a bill that seeks to:
During the debate Lib Dem peer Jonathan Marks said:
“We must balance the security imperatives to protect the public and to combat terrorism against the liberal imperative to safeguard our freedoms as citizens in a democratic society.”
“While our Government struggle to improve domestic counter terrorist legislation, they nevertheless risk through Brexit abandoning most of the UK’s international work in this area over decades.”
The solution is not this dramatic overreach by the Conservative Government, running roughshod over civil liberties in the process.
Follow this link for more info: http://www.libdems.org.uk/better-individual-protections
