The TUC is not exactly a scaremongering organisation. So when general secretary Frances O’Grady warns that the Transparency of Lobbying, non-Party Campaigning, and Trade Union Administration Bill is an “attack on free speech worthy of an authoritarian dictatorship” there is just cause for alarm. She points out that the Bill has been drawn so widely that it will “shut down dissent for the year before an election”, adding: “No organisation that criticises a government policy will be able to overdraw their limited ration of dissent without fearing a visit from the police.” - See more at: aworldtowin.net/blog/how-state-plans-to-shut-down-dissent.html#sthash.OcttVoWF.dpuf
Posted on: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:48:14 +0000
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