Happy Snappers

Meeting Granny off a train? Family group snap?

Making a record of your visit to London – Government building, tourist landmark?

Trainspotters?

Be very careful. The Police are now permitted to stop you and search you, under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and they are doing it increasingly.

It is the same law that was used against Walter Wolfgang for heckling Tony Blair at the Labour Conference.

For years the “leftie” brigade have been howled for talking about civil liberties, but the “hang ‘em and flog ‘em” brigade have got this one very badly wrong.

Of course the Police must have every weapon available to fight terrorism, but Blair’s promise that the Act would be used sensibly has proved nonsense and it must be changed.

Oh and YES, it can happen to you.