It seems that they now want to bug politicians as well as civilians and businesses/workplaces.
Sigh, I -suppose- it's for National Security.
By the way I said it was on the news.
Not that it was necessarily true

If they're going to go along those lines, they ought to put more in schools so that bullies can be caught out at their nasty little games and dealt with more quickly.
I didn't think "bullies" were threats to national security.
No, but they are threats to personal security. Then again, the people who threaten national security are agents for bullies of a different kind.
You think the British government actually cares about it's people?
I guess Gordon Brown is the best so far though.
Not if the adoption targets debacle is anything to go by, I don't think so.
It's all targets nowerdays, if I wanted to live in a country run on targets i'd move to North Korea or some crap like that.
You think the British government actually cares about it's people?
I guess Gordon Brown is the best so far though.
... Yes of course, damn those bastards who set up the welfare state, truely Gordon Brown is better than them
I'd rather have a job than be stuck on poverty line welfare payments...
Which could only be expected from a nietzschean..
big brother is not only an american occurance. actually, i believe the term was coined by an englishman.
do something about this now, before it is too late. the thought police are coming next.
Well, we already have food nazis and fashion police so we're well on the way to the day when we have thought police.
Zarathustra, what about all the jobs that pay a pittance that's not even on the poverty line?