On the whole, I don’t particularly like the LibDems. Too touchy feely, too greenish, too lefty for my likes. Especially with regards to taxation. But sometime, once in a while, they come up with something remarkably sensible.

Such as the concept of a “freedom bill”. Which, sez they, would remove from the statute book a number of laws with the following effect:

Death to ID cards

doubleplusgood

Correcting the bloody awful mess that is the current one sided US extradition treaty

good

Stop collecting & storing DNA from people not convicted of any crime

doubleplusgood

Get rid of the ridiculous restrictions on protesting near parliament

doubleplusgood

Curtailing police powers to impose conditions on public meetings

varies between good and plusgood, depending on context

Removing the right of the Home Sec to criminalise trespass in designated areas

as long as things like military sites are covered, doubleplusgood

Reinstate the right to silence

doubleplusgood

Whats not to like?

Of course, should the LibDems ever get within a hair’s breadth of any actual power, their freedom loving ways would go completely. Power corrupts, etc. Meaning that they’d keep all their wacky leftist nonsensical policies would be brought to the fore, and all the sensible things would disappear. But it’s nice to hear a politician say nice things about not crushing freedom.