John Redwood MP has raised a conservative proposal to cut 'red tape', including the Data Protection Act. Since when, exactly, was civil liberties legislation considered to be 'red tape'? The Tories seem to be hell bent on some particularly daft policies at the moment: steadfast opposition to the principle of Identity Cards - rather than to the existing Identity Cards Act - demonstrates a dramatic failure to understand societal requirements for identity assurance. And some recent questions about computer forensics and investigations - which I'm not at liberty to discuss here - included some of the daftest technology questions I've ever heard, and were evidence of an astounding failure to grasp the issues involved.
Can we please have an Opposition that knows what it's talking about? Let's get some speeches from the same folks that wrote George Osbourne's excellent piece on Open Source. And if John Redwood stops trying to invent policy on Data Protection, I'll promise to avoid inventing economic policies.
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