So Flash is talking about civil liberties. What a joke! Its like King Henry VIII talking about family values! It is becoming increasingly more difficult to take this government seriously. They said they’d save the NHS, it seems to be in more trouble now than it was ten years ago. 

One of the main threats to civil liberties over the last decade has been the behaviour of an increasingly overbearing Labour Government that has transformed Britain into a surveillance state. If Flash Gordon is genuinely signalling a change of heart then that is brilliant, but authoritarianism seems to run deep in the lifeblood of this Government.

I fear that Labour polling has revealed that the British public find the Government’s intrusions into their private lives revolting and Flash is just paying lip service.