Today's news on the BBC is that it is o.k. to extradite a young Englishman to the USA on the basis of an unequal treaty rights. Photographers outside the Tate Museum are being stopped from photographing the sunset as it might also include the Secret Service building, all under the Section 44 of the Terrorism Act while Guantanmo Detention centre is still in operation. You could not invent it if you tried.

You may wonder why the vote sign is on everyone of my blogs - well the issues I am writing about are all ones that can be expressed at the ballot box.

Today, I am writing about the collecting of DNA of innocent people. In the UK the culture has always been "Innocent until proven guilty". In Europe where so many of the new laws are being made, the culture is "Guilty until you can prove you are innocent".

There is also the idea "better a guilty person goes free, rather than an innocent person is imprisoned".

So my view is DNA is amazing and helpful, but keeping the information for more than six years is just another example of Big Brother at work and maybe even six years is six years too many. Innocent is innocent.

Well, 5 more soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan and still the Labour Government continues with this unwinable war.

With the privatisation of arms procurement, there is a calculation that the Government must make - how many dead will the English public put up with and how long will they believe what the politicians tell them is the reason for being in Afghanistan. For the businessmen who have taken over the arms supply business, the people who pay the political parties to get these profitable enterprises, there is a further calculation to make - how much armour can they NOT supply against the number of soldiers killed because the armour is inadequate. This cost/benefit analysis is common where a business has to see what it can get away with, without losing too many customers.

But to return to the opening paragraph. A simple course in Renaisance literature would inform those interested, that no occupying force can remain forever in a country where they are not welcome. Machiavelli.

It appears that the final obstacles have been removed. First the Irish gave way, then the Poles and now the Czechs. Cameron has decided there will be no referendum should the Conservatives be returned to power.

Remembering how English Governments treated the Irish in the Potato Famine, the Poles in the 1945 Victory Parade and the Czechs at Munich, not much mercy could be expected from those quarters, but to be stabbed in the back by Cameron, surely that is a step too far.

The unelected bureaucrats of Brussels rule. The self-same who in all the time they have ruled have never been able to pass their annual accounts past their auditors. Surely there is a lesson and a hint there for all of us.

It's now the 2nd November, 2009 - I missed out posting my blog on 1st Nov, so today you get two opinions for one posting.

Today both politicals parties are jumping with both feet into the disgraceful imigration to the UK. As though they care a fig !!! They are both desperately scrambling to avoid the BNP vote at the next General Election. Both have sold out to the EU and we have to put up with fat cats up to their ears in cream. That's just today.

What about yesterday? Well we know that the BNP have the vote by the short and curlies - housing is the key to their success. Forget colour bars, they object to the Poles getting on the social housing ladder ahead of the 'indiginous' population, so it can't be colour. KISS - keep it simple stupid - it's housing, first, second and third. If you have politicians lining their pockets, who do they think they will trust - a party that says what is happening. Tough luck. Honesty pays in the end. Labour and Conservatives could learn a lesson from that idea.