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This is pretty disturbing even if many of us have seen it coming:

Whitehall plan for huge database

No doubt this thread will garner more frothing at the mouth from the usual supects on NSR about how it is all indicative of the government's desire to control the citzenship if the UK etc. etc.

However, what is even more worrying to me is that while the other parties make nice twee little soundbites about how this and other equally worrying government policies (e.g. black box road charging) are not good none of them actually stand up and say they would scrap any of them if they got to power. In fact the Tories have even said they are broadly in support of road charging

So if, as is it seems on here (and this is just an assumption of course), much of the population is against these policies how is it that all the main political parties seem so out of touch with the electorate and what can we do to stop the erosion of our civil liberties and in conjunction with some policies the resultant increased taxation?