Government creates 33 new crimes a month.

[RobinOfTheHood]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/7050044/Labour-invents-33-new-crimes-every-month.html

Thanks to Labour, it is now illegal to swim in the wreck of the Titanic or to sell game birds killed on a Sunday or Christmas Day – eventualities overlooked by previous governments.

Labour has made 4,289 activities illegal since the 1997 election, at a rate of about one a day – twice the speed with which the previous Conservative government created crimes.

Gordon Brown was the worst offender, with his government inventing 33 new crimes a month. Tony Blair's administration made 27 new offences each month.

Some of the more inventive crimes dreamt up by Labour include "disturbing a pack of eggs when directed not to by an authorised officer" and reporting the door of a merchant ship to be closed and locked when it isn't.

Labour also introduced laws against activities which would already have been covered by previous legislation – such as "causing a nuclear explosion."

Liberal Democrat home office spokesman Chris Huhne, who brought the figures to light, will criticise the government's administrative binge in a speech tonight.

He will say Labour has spent 12 years "suffering from the most acute and prolonged bout of legislative diarrhoea", calling the rate of 69 new Home Affairs Bills in 12 years "staggering".

If it were up to me, I'd pass one extra law - for every law passed, another must be repealed.   :(

[RobinOfTheHood]

[lewic]

Ha ha, particularly like the 'disturbing a pack of eggs' one. So you can't get away with "no officer I'm not going to throw them at Gordon Brown, its my lunch" now?

[tonybloke]

wasn't the 'door on  a merchant ship' one something to do with a Ro-Ro ferry that capsised, killing several people, and no one was prosecuted?
Taken in full context, some of these laws were necessary!!

[PurpleHeather]

There is a bloke near me who is 97.

He likes his pipe and the occasional drink. Looks after himself in his own home and can be seen often going for a walk, which when things are ready for harvesting he wanders on to the allotments, always ready to help out by making use of surplus fresh veg or fruit. (He makes his own jam).

His thoughts on some of our recent laws:-

There are too many folk with too little to do who spend their time trying to make out that they are doing something.

You can't argue with him.

He is nearly totally deaf.