Labour creates one new crime for every day in power

Most of the new laws came during Tony Blair's tenure as prime ministerMost of the new laws came during Tony Blair's tenure as prime minister
 

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Labour has created a total of 3,605 new laws since it came to power, adding up to a new crime almost every day since Tony Blair walked into Downing Street in 1997.

The most prolific legislator is the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with a total of 852 offences.

The Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (formerly the Department for Trade and Industry) comes second with 678 offences.

The Home Office has created 455 new crimes.

"This legislative diarrhoea is not about making us safer, because it does not help enforce the laws that we have one jot," said Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne, who released the figures at the launch of the party's new crime initiative.

"In what conceivable way can the introduction of a new criminal offence every day help tackle crime when most crimes that people care about have been illegal for years."

Some of the new offences border on the truly bizarre. One created a new criminal offence of starting a nuclear explosion while another outlawed disturbing a pack of eggs when instructed not to by authorised officers.


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Milly, Rotherham: Typical of NEW LABOUR to endanger the safety of the British people and kowtow to the EU again; with the absentia law. How these people sleep at night, I will never know. It's beyond believe, they cannot even extradiate or deport known terrorist living in Britain who get paid thousand of pound of taxpayer money in benefits, but they are quite happy to extradite British voter without a qualm. Another law imposed on us by the EU and accepted without question by our useless Blairite government, oh yes he is still pulling the strings. It is time for this government to go and the EU as well. The sooner we have a change of government the better; whoever we get could not make thing any worse than they are at the moment. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's between them have destroyed what once was a great country. We have become two things under NEW Labour a Banana Republic and the Land of Milk and Honey; where the dregs of the world have decended to milk us dry. New Labour has shown nothing but contempt for their country folk. With the help of the EU, the political correct brigade, the do-gooders and nebulous various advisors of this Tinpot government the changes they have made in Britain has been our undoing. We are a dyfunctional; broken country.


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