Shadow Home Secretary backs photography petition
Submitted by Technoboy on Fri, 07/25/2008 - 16:20.
Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve is among the latest politicians to sign a House of Commons motion over the right to take photographs in public unchallenged.
The Conservative MP for Beaconsfield, who is also the Shadow Attorney General, is among 240 MPs to back the Early Day Motion, tabled by Labour MP Austin Mitchell.
Earlier this week we reported that the government is set to liaise with police chiefs following calls for officers to be given clearer guidelines about photography in
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Is it not strange that as we are allowed to be photographed by several snoop camera's, where the police do not any longer provide physical presence, that our public right to take photography is being eroded - something to do with the simpleton's at the top end of the sphere whom challenge all freedoms. Maybe too the right to photograph and record fopr posterity - just like the late Victorian's did is being stopped. It is about time Government got back to controlling the trade, the Street crime, the vandalism and the muggings - time to stop the fudge.