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It had to come this way. The Labour government has pushed the anti-terrorism laws further and further and asked everybody to trust them. The Minister should make the decision if someone would be put under house arrest without even consulting a judge. Now they want to be able to detain someone for 3 month without a judge.

Then they removed a man, over 80 years old, from their party's convention, just because he shouts "non-sense". In addition, he was initially not allowed to return to the convention under the Anti-Terrorism Act. It is certainly very terrifying for the Labour government to encouter dissent. In their eyes, it might shake the foundations of their authoritarian rule, which in their minds is the fabric of UK democracy. How was Irak again before the invasion?

(More about the newsstory can be read on the BBC website here)