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Just when you think there isn’t much more you could write about the erosion of personal freedom in the UK along comes another brick in the wall.

Our freedoms are being removed, adjusted, lessened and blunted a little more with every passing day. Our present government is sleepwalking us to a totalitarian state in which it will become an offense to even question the lessening of your freedoms.

Our government has decided to monitor every trip into and out of our country. It has already started to do its utmost to achieve this by recently logging 70 million of our recent journeys, and they aim to raise this number to over 100 million in the next few months. After this has been achieved they aim to know where you went, who with, when and for what purpose. This is part of their obsessive wish to know everything about you and then will come the control.

Imagine a time when the civil servants will ration the number of trips you can take in order to reduce your carbon footprint?

Think about a future in which an anonymous official decides you mustn’t take your child on holiday during term time and will have the information to make it impossible for you to do so?

How far are we from being monitored for tax purposes using this new information?

The published reason for this governmental need for such information is that it will help them deal with externally linked terrorism threats. This is, of course, the same reason given for huge swathes of new legislation and quite frankly it is not believable or tenable when confronted with forensic examination.

The government is setting up a new centre to monitor and evaluate all this additional information in a part of Manchester, North West England. It will no doubt employ several hundred trained operatives. Their purpose will be much broader than the one admitted.

As with the money transfer tracing it has another purpose than just anti terrorism. This is a function of governmental control and tax gathering. The more information that Big Brother has on us the more it can dictate our lives.

The real danger for our future is that all of these small breaches of our freedom will be abused, misused or simply botched in a future in which we might find ourselves governed by some form of dictatorial government who will only need to use the levers of control now being foolishly put in place. We must do all we can to roll back this tide before it is too late.