Tim Ireland takes on SOCPA

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Tim Ireland takes on SOCPA

By The Voice | Fri 18th January 2008 - 7:53 am

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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

Justin Hinchcliffe 18th Jan '08 - 9:34am

I found this very interesting. Thank you, Tim.
Lee Griffin 18th Jan '08 - 11:59am

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 18th Jan '08 - 5:30pm

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?
Gavin Whenman 18th Jan '08 - 7:04pm

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
Laurence Boyce 18th Jan '08 - 7:28pm

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

Libertarian and stupid.
Jennie 19th Jan '08 - 12:17pm

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

Indeed
sanbikinoraion 19th Jan '08 - 1:24pm

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.