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.