I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling that our current Government is doing the equivalent of sticking its fingers in its ears and singing "La La La" at the top of its voice so that it can avoid hearing the disgruntled rumblings of popular discontent.

Having grown up during the Thatcher years, it should come as no surprise to anyone that I have regularly voted labour all my adult life, so in some respects I realise that I must bear some responsibility for the current lot . 

That said however, the constant banging the drum over terrorist threats being used to both increase Government sponsored snooping and as a way of trying to hide bad news has really niggled me.

Just yesterday, when we had the rather unpleasant spectacle of another cabinet minister being caught (at least morally if not legally) with his nose in the trough of MP's expenses, and the news that actually inflation is increasing in real terms as the general members of the public understand it, we had another suspected dodgy expenses claimant telling us that we were facing a severe terrorist threat.  And the best way of dealing with it?  Another Government foray into the details of our private lives this coming from the lot who want to keep their un-audited and self certified expenses claims secret - now they want to have access to all your contacts from twitter, facebook etc etc.

Time and again we hear that the innocent shouldn't have anything to hide - well actually that's not the point - I didn't give you permission to log all my calls, trace all my contacts, monitor my movements, review all my banking transactions - specially not give that the reasons for the whole war against terrorism in Iraq has subsequently been proven to be a complete fabrication.

Suspicious timing?  Burying bad news in another pseudo plot?  Come on Labour, you'll have to do better than to try and work that one over on us again.