Cllr Steve Radford

President of The Liberal Party

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Tuebrook

Liverpool

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Letter for Publication

Dear Editor

For those readers who don’t believe this country is having its freedoms eroded by New Labour we hope they will consider the following recent events in Parliament Square

Brian Haw's one-man protest in parliament square for the past five years has been such an irritant to New labour that they passed a law to get rid of him and his placards, which were a permanent reminder of the slaughter Tony Blair and the MPs who supported him brought to the people of Iraq.

At 2.30am on 23 May, Brian's placards were removed by the police. In the words of the civil rights group Liberty, "The government's intolerance has surely reached a fever-pitch when 50 police are sent in to dismantle one man's peaceful protest in the middle of the night.

Everyday this government is using and abusing the excuse of “security” to repress legitimate protest

We can only imagine the abuse of the ID card system and government database that will surely come next

Cllr Steve Radford

President of The Liberal Party