Re: What's the emergency?
The 'emergency' is that the European courts decided that the arrangements that were already in place didn't have to continue, one of the numerous downsides to being in the EU as it stands (in the sense that they have effectively decided what our national laws are. Potential down voters please note, I am not a UKIP voter nor am I specifically anti-EU or pro-EU but I am pro EU reform).
I'm not in favour of excessive unnecessary surveillance but, I am impressed by the way this bill has been introduced in that it has relatively short, in political terms, time limits built in.
This seems to demonstrate a degree of common sense that I would previously of thought Cameron/Clegg incapable of.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
