Watch Wallace Chapman and the Back Benches Panel while they tackle the week’s hottest topics: CIVIL LIBERTIES – New powers to fight crime have some screaming, ‘our rights, our rights-they’re being trampled!’ But does all this fuss have merit? Are our civil liberties being crushed or is this just the cost of crime? And THE BENEFITS OF THE BENEFIT are being evaluated by the Government. Some mummies are going to be chucked back into the workforce-is this a bad thing? How do we stop lifelong benefit receivers? Or are these heartless moves targeted at the people who need help the most?
Live pub politics from the Backbencher Pub on Wednesday, 4th of November. The panel: United Future Leader Peter Dunne, Labour MP Grant Robertson, and National MP Paul Quinn.
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This comment may or may not appear because I’m being moderated like a criminal :-X , but here’s my two cents.
The new powers for the police et al
are really scary. The right to remain silent is very important and I can’t see any justification for removing it.
Taking DNA without even an arrest is just disgusting IMHO, and the surveillance stuff is just creepy
Does this fuss have merit? Hell yes!
Oh yes, the benefit, they are going after the sick and vulnerable.
I mean if a person is sick, then they are sick, period. The benefit is not trapping them or holding them back, their illnesses are, shit happens and people can’t help being sick.
Solo mothers, it wouldn’t be so bad that they’re trying to shunt them into work if it weren’t for the fact that they’ve taken their TIA!
Please take me off moderation, I haven’t been threatened, and I haven’t been told why.
I don’t think the benefits outweigh the risks.
watch out spud – they will be after your DNA next.
The ironic thing is, with the whole new ‘lets make people safe by taking their rights away’ its actually becoming more of a ‘nanny’ (or is that grand daddy) state than it was, or could be, under Labour.
Great idea to support Grant -Balance deleted we will leave that to Grant. Trevor
How do they expect to throw these mums back in to workforce when they’ve cut their training allowances?
Wow – support Labour on CIVIL LIBERTIES? This is the party responsible for the Search and Surveillance Bill, and the party that just voted for the new powers to sample DNA.
As a target of the anti-CIVIL LIBERTIES police, I’m suddenly more scared than I was when I found out my partner was a police spy paid to gather information on my friends and I.
Thanks Labour!
Oh and of course I say all of this as a member of the Labour Party.
Have to agree with Rocky – Labour’s stance on civil liberties is a disgrace, both when in power and since. The latest example being the DNA testing, in which the LP voted with NACT – The Greens and MP, of all parties, the only to emerge with honour. You make it very hard to vote for you.
OK, off to moderation.