Tim Ireland takes on SOCPA

Blogger Tim Ireland has submitted his response to the Labour Government’s consultation document on Sections 132 to 138 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005… via YouTube. He suggests (and we agree):

Grab yourself a coffee or a nice hot cup of tea and settle in for a little over 7 minutes of me sharing a few things the Home Office – and you – should be aware of:

A transcript is available here.

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7 Comments

  • Posted 18th January 2008 at 9:34 am | Permalink

    I found this very interesting. Thank you, Tim.

  • Posted 18th January 2008 at 11:59 am | Permalink

    Great stuff, a shame that it comes about after the submission deadline for the consultation though. Would have been great to use to try and spur people in to making their statement against increased control over how we show our outrage and support for various things in life.

  • Duncan
    Posted 18th January 2008 at 5:30 pm | Permalink

    This style of film is very effective, and probably very quick to produce. Might be a good way of standing out in party political broadcasts?

  • Posted 18th January 2008 at 7:04 pm | Permalink

    Great audio, fairly good sight gags, but the editing might induce be harmful to those suffering from epilepsy. For an example of how this kind of film should be done, see Zero Punctuation: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/tag/zero+punctuation

  • Posted 18th January 2008 at 7:28 pm | Permalink

    Crikey! And the say my posts are boring . . .

    Libertarian and stupid.

  • Posted 19th January 2008 at 12:17 pm | Permalink

    “a shame that it comes about after the submission deadline for the consultation though”

    Indeed

  • Posted 19th January 2008 at 1:24 pm | Permalink

    I think that it was at least submitted, even if it doesn’t have the chance to sway other people into contributing.

    Did the Lib Dems have a campaign to get people to contribute to the SOCPA consultation? I don’t remember there being one.

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