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Article: POLICE STATE BRITAIN; More petty regulations every day. An army of busybodies to enforce them - or else. How Labour is destroying our very freedom.. .EDWARD HEATHCOAT AMORY examines just ten examples from Labour's blizzard of petty regulations, and the punishments used to enforce them ...
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- December 10, 2004
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Byline: SIMON HEFFER;EDWARD HEATHCOAT AMORY
ANY REMOTELY intelligent person understands the first law of human behaviour: that the more you are told not to do something, the more you are likely to feel the urge to do it. Since our government is run by remarkably unintelligent people, they have yet to grasp this.
Only yesterday, there were two more additions to the depressingly long list of ways in which we must now expect to be policed, or regulated. An army of busybodies is to be employed to issue fines to people who drop litter.
And, even more ingeniously, people who cause unnecessary 'light pollution' are now also to be fined.
The ...