Labour introduces 14,300 new offences

[rebbonk]

Labour invents 33 new crimes every month

Labour has introduced 14,300 new offences since taking office in 1997, with Gordon Brown's administration inventing crimes at a rate of more than one a day.

Full story http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/7050044/Labour-invents-33-new-crimes-every-month.html

[pollyanna]

Dammit - swimming in the wreck of the Titanic was on my 'to do' list this year

It just makes your blood boil reading this article

[Joe Cool]

I wonder if they still use the maxim 'ignorance is no excuse' If you had to remember everything you were not allowed to do your head would explode!!
More to the point, with election time looming, how many are the other parties going to repeal?...LibDems seem to be saying they will repeal a lot of the anti Civil Liberty laws at least....

[pollyanna]

There'll be a lot of pre-election promises flying around - whether they keep them or not is another matter