Hi-Viz For Cows

Kudos to Nanny for coming up with one her most absurd ideas yet, hi-viz jackets for cows.

Hungerford Council were concerned about the health and safety aspects of cows wandering the local roads at night, lest they be hit by a car.

The suggestion made was for the cows to wear hi-viz clothing and, at the suggestion of the mayor, lights strung round their necks!

Suffice to say, the local farmers think that this idea is bollocks. As one farmer pointed out, cows don't always conveniently stand at 90 degrees to an oncoming car. Sometimes cows stand facing the vehicle, as such a hi-viz jacket would not be seen.

The sensible solution is for there to be traffic calming measures, so vehicles are not roaring round the danger areas at night at insane speeds.

Roger Denton, one of the farmers, is quoted by the Telegraph:

“The thing about fluorescent collars is that they’d only get them off anyway and litter them all over the common.”

Nanny needs a strong dose of common sense!

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Hi Vis

Brighton beach was awash with luminous yellow yesterday, as a gazillion school kids descended onto the beach all wearing hi vis jackets (aside from being completely unnecessary, it must have been very uncomfortable to wear them in the baking sunshine).

Whatever happened to school uniforms?

Anyhoo, kudos to the one child who had the guts and strength of character to remove her hi vis jacket.

She is evidently marked out for great things in life when she grows up!

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Hi-Vis

EEEEK...a gazillion schoolkids are walking down my road, in crocodile formation, all wearing hi-vis!

This contrasts with the scene on the beach the other day when a gazillion other schoolkids rushed onto the beach with their teachers, having visited the Sea Life Centre, not one of them wearing hi-vis.

I thought Nanny made the wearing of such garments compulsory?

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Rain

I see it's raining again!

Don your hi-vis everyone!

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Horsing Around

My thanks to a loyal reader who recently pointed me in the direction of a daft piece of Nanny nonsense concerning horses, Hi-Vis jackets worn by the horse rider and the words "POLITE" of "PLEASE" emblazoned across the Hi-Vis apparel.

Concerned about the number of accidents on the roads involving horses and cars etc, the British Horse Society has encouraged people to wear Hi-Vis jackets with the words "POLITE" or "PLEASE" to encourage drivers to give them some consideration etc.

Unfortunately some of the designs worn also includes a reflective blue and silver border.

Step forward the Association of Chief Police Officers, which has written to the British Horse Society warning them that the design too closely resembles the design of clothing worn by mounted policemen.

Assistant chief constable Ron Hanson, the association’s head of mounted policing, is quoted by the Mail:

"Anyone possessing these products is at risk of breaking the law, namely section 90 of the Police Act 1996.

Over recent months a number of examples of high visibility equine apparel have been brought to my attention. 

These articles have caused concern to the police on the grounds individuals wearing them are likely to be mistaken for a police officer."

I can see his point. However, unless the non police riders deliberately attempt to pass themselves off as police officers, is this not a case of an over reaction?

On the other hand, the wording and chequered borders seem somewhat unnecessary; how hard is it not to see a horse and rider in Hi-Vis?

I suspect that where accidents occur, this is either down to lousy driving or lousy horsemanship. The addition of the words "PLEASE" or "POLITE" will not make the slightest difference to such lousy driving/horsemanship.

There is of course a greater irony here, the original design was approved of by Met police commander Bob Broadhurst, the ACPO spokesman on mounted policing (my thanks to a loyal reader for pointing this out).

He is quoted by the Evening Standard as saying that the law would not be breached “provided there is no deliberate attempt to impersonate police” and added that even if the public were mistaken, the sight of people in high-visibility clothing would offer “reassurance”.

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Nanny's Hi Vis Horse

Ladies and Gentlemen you are doubtless familiar with Nanny's penchant for shrouding everyone in hi vis attire, I now give you Nanny's hi vis horse!

Seemingly, in the wake of the horsegate scandal, Nanny is worried that we may not able to recognise a horse. The next time your munching your way through a ready made lasagne, and you come across a fragment of hi vis clothing you know that the product wasn't made of beef.

Still, the hi vis wear doubtless has other uses, let's face it without such attire it would be remarkably difficult to see the horse in the middle of the road!

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Shout Out To Tonk

It seems someone has been reading your regular comments/opinions on hi-viz and has written an article based on them!

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The Boys In Hi Vis

I have observed that certain phrases trigger a raising of blood pressure amongst my loyal readers. One such phrase is "hi vis", as discussed yesterday in relation to binmen and council admin staff.

In the spirit of keeping the blood pressure up, I am going to repeat the phrase again today....hi vis!

For it seems ladies and gentlemen that Nanny is planning to do away with our "boys in blue", and replace them with the "boys in hi vis".

Police chiefs believe that hi vis (instead of blue) will make the police easier to spot on the streets (alongside binmen, road diggers, traffic wardens etc etc). Additionally Nanny believes that, if it is adopted across the country, it will make for a more unified image.

The absurdly named “national high visibility jacket” will be tested first in London.

Groan!

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Prats of The Week - Wiltshire Council

My oh my what a wet and windy Monday morning it is!

What better time to award my prestigious, and internationally renowned, Prats of The Week Award?

This week, courtesy of a recommendation from a loyal reader, it goes to Wiltshire Council (aka to the locals as the "lavatory council").

For why?

Just read the following about the council's rules wrt our old "friend" hi vis jackets, and who should wear them.

A Wiltshire council admin employee had been assigned to a day's ride with the local dustbin men, presumably to observe life on the front line etc.

I understand that the lady in question was ordered to wear hi vis for her day out. Given that the binmen all wear them, this may not seem terribly surprising. However, even though she was meant to observe/experience a day in the life of the binmen she was not allowed to leave the cab at all during the day (due to health and safety etc etc).

Therefore, given that she was safely sitting inside the cab all day (not learning anything about what the binmen actually do) I have to ask why the hell was she required to wear a hi vis jacket?

Wiltshire Council, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Kowtowing To Hi Vis

I know that loyal readers of this site have a somewhat healthy "antipathy" towards the quasi authority status of those who don Nanny's uniform of "power", namely hi vis wearers.

However, there are some who are prone to kowtow to wearers of this garb. Therefore it should come as no surprise to anyone to learn that an "artful rapscallion" in Ramsgate has come up with a ruse, whereby he dons a hi vis jacket and pretends to be a dog warden.

What does this fake dog warden do?

Slap £50 on the spot fines on local dog owners for imaginary offences!

The local council have said that dog wardens are not empowered to issue on the spot fines. I dare say that is true. Unfortunately Nanny has empowered many other "wardens/community officers etc" with the power to slap fines on us that it hard to tell them apart.

I dare say Nanny will, in due course, empower dog wardens with the "right" to issue fines!

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Nanny Bans Snowmen

The recent flurries of snow have brought about something of a collective madness in the behaviour and mindset of our "beloved" and "respected" local councils.

For reasons best known to themselves councils up and down the country have been beheading and destroying snowmen constructed in public areas and parks.

Council workers smashed the heads of snowmen on the Homefield Recreation Ground in Chiswick. When the workmen were challenged about their snowmanicide, their excuse was that they were "protecting the grass".

What??

It is estimated that around 50 snowmen and several igloos were destroyed by the council workmen there. I understand that saws were used to decapitate some!

Other snowmanicides have been reported in Cambridge and Enfield.

Hounslow Council claim that they had no knowledge of their employees actions, and that the snowmanicide had not been sanctioned.

 

Council workmen in Enfield were easy to spot when the were committing snowmanicide.

How so?

They were wearing Hi Vis jackets!

Remember, if you see an incident of snowmanicide please report it on this site immediately!

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Golden Wonder and Hi Vis - UPDATED

As I know that many of my loyal readers hold the wearers of Hi Vis in particularly "fond" and "high" regard, I thought that you may appreciate this video of an altercation between some Hi Vis wearing security guards outside a Golden Wonder factory in Scunthorpe and a local photographer (known as "Hamst") who was trying to take a picture of the building for his site "Visit Scunthorpe".

The Hi Vis wearers are less than pleased, and shower Hamst with threats and abuse (at one point, one of them encourages a colleague to run him down with a car).

I reproduce Hamst's account of his encounter in full below:

"As many people will be aware over the years I have travelled around the town taking photographs of buildings, streets, people, event and many other scenes. I started many years ago both taking and collecting photographs although the vast majority of my images come from the past 4 to five years. I’ve built up quite a library containing thousands of pictures for posterity, a historical record and to use in various articles of local interest of which www.visitscunthorpe.com can be testament to.

A couple of years ago I was challenged whilst taking photo’s at a local under 14’s football match in which my son was taking part. I’d taken photo’s at numerous matches over the years and posted them to the football teams web page on Facebook, something which had caused no bother and the players loved tagging themselves and using them as profile pictures, both my sons team and the opposition. However, after this challenge and thinking I had gone some way to reassure the parent that there was no malice intended I thought I should look deeper into the law and photography within the UK than I previously had.

After hours of research and reading I though I’d gained enough knowledge and understanding to know where I stood within the law should I ever be confronted again, although I don’t profess to be an outright expert. 

Last year that knowledge was put to the test whilst I was passing the hospital and decided to take a few pictures to add to my library. The details of that can be read via this link; 

http://www.visitscunthorpe.com/ScunthorpeNews/Headline/Hospital-Security-Try-To-Prevent-Me-Taking-Photos

Late last year I was over at the Normanby Park and Foxhills Industrial Estates taking photo’s of various businesses and on the whole whilst there was some curiosity by some security guards manning the gates the only ones that queried what I was doing were at the Two Sisters plant. Although they weren’t too pleased with me taking pictures and originally tried to prevent me they conceded I was within my rights, overall the encounter I had with them was quite amicable.

On Tuesday 17th January I decided I would travel the Midland Road Industrial Estate via Cottage Beck Road to take some photographs of industry around this area. Passing the Golden Wonder plant I though it would be a good opportunity to take a few shots of the site, it quickly became clear I wasn’t welcome. I was stood on the road outside the site when a security officer approached. I switched my camera to video mode to record the encounter to protect both myself and the security guards from future false accusations. The footage can be seen above.

Obviously the conduct and tactics used by the two security officers has to be in question.

At 04:53 an employee, who can be seen just walking past, is getting into a car behind me can be heard saying, “I’ll run him over ” to which the female officer actively encourages her by saying, “you do that,” that’s when I moved onto the path. 

What also aggrieves me is that someone in a uniform representing a company in an apparent position of authority can try and intimidate members of the public by making up laws that don’t exist. This seemed to be an attempt to subjugate a member of the public into accepting what was being told was to be true. Further more hurling offensive insults and puerile slander, like seen at the end of the video, surely isn’t something that someone in that position should resort to.

In conclusion I take their actions to be an exception to the standard practise employed by the many fine security officers up and down the country and I can only assume these two individuals actions are not characteristic of the rest of the security team at Golden Wonder." 

UPDATED

Those of you with sharp eyes will have noticed that the video (that worked perfectly yesterday) has now been taken down by YouTube.

Fear not, here it is in all its glory!



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Nanny's Hi Vis Fetish

My thanks to a loyal reader who pointed out that Nanny's Hi Vis fetish has gone Continental.

Apparently, Spanish Nanny is worried about the health and safety of working girls who ply their trade on rural highways. As such, Spanish Nanny has ordered the girls to wear Hi Vis jackets when they are working near highways, such as the rural highway outside Els Alamus near Lleida in Catalonia.

Failure to comply with the law will elicit a fine of Euro 40.

What's the Spanish for Ker Farking Ching?

It is not clear as to whether the girls are meant to keep the jacket on once they are with a customer.

I dare say that the Hi Vis jackets will make them more visible, and to some extent may well lead to an increase in "clients".

In other parts of the world other "marketing" techniques are employed. In Beijing the street girls attract customers by throwing firecrackers on the pavements as people walk by. Quite what the health and safety brigade in the UK would make of girls lobbing "Brocks bangers" at passers by in Shepherd Market etc I don't know!

Ole!

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Morning Has Broken!

I had an early trek (up with the lark) to Brighton Station this morning with Eva, as she is popping over the Sweden for a couple of weeks.

My goodness me what an awful lot of people there were there milling around wearing hi vis jackets. These hi vis wearers were not just station staff, but also leafleteers, cleaners and statisticians/pollsters with clip boards.

All of them looked so self engorged with their own perceived sense of self importance and self satisfaction!

Tonk regularly says "just laugh at hi vis".

However, doubtless due to the unfeasibly early hour and the fact that I had consumed industrial quantities of brandy the night before, I had a real urge to thwack these self important people on their heads with their clipboards.

What is it about hi vis that is so damned annoying?

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Prats of The Week - Warwickshire Police

Ooh err missus, it has been a wee while since I have awarded my prestigious and internationally renowned Prats of The Week Award.

Time therefore to get awarding!

This week it goes to Warwickshire Police.

For why?

Well my old muckers, they recently had an "initiative" to bring in some extra manpower to help them run speed traps.

Who did they bring in?

Why, Boy Scouts of course!

Yes, you did read that correctly, the police used the services of 1st Shipston Scout pack (aged 10-14) to help them catch speeding motorists.

The Scouts spent a day in January using a laser speed gun with three police officers and three police community support officers, on duty at the traps at Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire.

The 24 motorists caught by the Scouts were offered the choice of accepting a verbal and written warning about their actions, both delivered by the Scouts, or the standard punishment of a £60 fixed penalty and three points on their licence.

Is it me, or is there something decidedly creepy and unpleasant about granting a child the right to admonish an adult in this manner (shades of 1984 and "thought crime" accusations leveled by children against their parents spring to mind)?

The most "amusing" part of this whole scheme was the response by a spokesman for Warwickshire Police to media enquiries.

For reasons that only Nanny can explain, the key issue as viewed from the perspective of the police seems to be the fact that those who took part wore "high viz" jackets (over to you on that one Tonk:)).

The spokesman said that all those involved wore high-visibility jackets, and the speed checks took place on roads offering 'clear visibility' to drivers and those taking part.

So that's OK then!

Well, I suppose as the Scouts already have their own uniforms it is (in Nanny's eyes at least) just one simple step to drafting them into the police.

Warwickshire Police, well deserving Prats of The Week!

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Nanny's Scientific Bent

As we know, Nanny and her chums love a bit of science.

Nanny loves the science that proves the link between all manner of ills and smoking, drinking and eating.

Nanny loves the science that proves drugs, apart from booze, are evil.

Nanny especially loves the science that proves that mankind is causing global warming. Needless to say, one of the great advantages of having us believe in global warming is the excuse it gives Nanny and her loathed local councils to levy "green taxes" upon the already overtaxed population.

Nanny would have us believe that these taxes are used to improve the environment, and combat global warming.

Utter bollocks, just like National Insurance (the greatest con trick ever foisted on a gullible electorate in history), the money is thrown into Nanny's general pork barrel of cash that she uses to pay her ever growing army of bureaucrats and snoopers.

The trouble is that Nanny has recently been having a spot of bother with "science", as results from some recent scientific research have not been chiming with Nanny's orthodoxy; viz:

- we can now eat 16% more calories per day

- we can drink one bottle of wine, or six bottles of beer, a day to minimise our risk of heart attacks

- certain drugs are less worse than alcohol

Needless to say Nanny has been doing her best to quash these findings, labelling them "flawed" (ie not in line with her "prejudices").

Now here comes the veritable icing on this monstrous cake of lies that Nanny has been baking. It would seem that global warming (I am old enough to remember when scientists were assuring us that we were heading for an ice age), or rather the science that "proves" global warming (if it exists) is man made, may be bollocks.

Leaked files from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit indicate that the scientists who are believers in global warming (the new religion) have been faking test results, so that the results match the religion, and have been trying to quash alternative research that disproves the religion of global warming.

The fakery has been exposed by a hacker who broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit.

Looks like the ice age is on its way!

The next time Nanny tells you her advice is based on "scientific research", tell her to take a running jump!

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The True Nature of ZaNuLabour

Nanny's desire to keep tabs on our phone calls and emails, via building a massive central database, had taken a wee bit of a setback.

For why?

Nanny, despite being all things to all men (in her deluded mind), is not up to building such an enormous database viz; the costs, the size, the security issues etc etc.

So my loyal readers, are we to conclude that the project is dead?

Why of course not!

Nanny has come up with a "brilliant" solution.

She is making the companies that provide email and phone services responsible for keeping records!

All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer's personal communications, showing who they are contacting, when, where and which websites they are visiting (registering every online click).

As an added bonus, Nanny will grant a staggering 653 public bodies the right to access this information. These bodies include our old "friends" in our "respected, competent and trustworthy" local councils, the police, the Financial Services Authority (the body which oversaw, but didn't react to, the financial meltdown), the Ambulance Service, fire authorities and prison governors (eh?).

The final icing on the cake of Nanny's master plan, is that these organs of the state will not require the permission of a judge or a magistrate to access the information. All they will require is the authorisation of a senior police officer, or the equivalent of an unelected deputy head of department at a local authority.

Common purpose anyone?

By the way, the private firms will be paid at least £2BN per annum (of our money) to spy on us!

The Information Commissioner's Office thinks that this idea is bollocks (as do I):

"The Information Commissioner believes that the case has yet to be made for the collection and processing of additional communications data for the population as a whole being relevant and not excessive."

The legislation won't come before Parliament until after the General Election, therefore we must ensure that ZaNuLabour are kicked out of office.

The state has become the enemy of the people, Daily Telegraph take note!

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Nanny's Al Capone Powers

We have known for quite some time that this country is being run by a bunch of gangsters, viz:

- Extortion via excessive tax rises and council fines

- Protection rackets via demands for licences and insurance fees for any activity whatsoever

- Bullying via the Iraq invasion, holding people without trial etc

However, in a twist of irony Nanny is now using a law designed to deal with "Al Capone" type "master" criminals against the ordinary person in the street; ie she is designating us all as potential "Al Capones".

The powers that police currently have to deprive crime barons of luxury lifestyles are being extended to councils, quangos and agencies to use against us.

These powers include the right to search homes, seize cash, freeze bank accounts and confiscate property.

Nanny is giving the following groups "carte blanche" (can I use French here?) to use these powers whenever they see fit; town hall officials and civilian investigators employed by organisations such as Royal Mail, the Rural Payments Agency and Transport for London.

Nanny's little chum Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, is sneaking these powers in next week via a Statutory Instrument (this means parliament doesn't have to debate it).

Now why would a local council need such powers?

Well my loyal readers, isn't it obvious?

To collect backdated council tax, to tackle fare dodgers and other minor criminals.

At this point you might say, "So what? They are criminals, they deserve it!"

OK, but I would make a number of observations:

- The powers of the state should be in proportion to the crime.

- Punishment should be in proportion to the crime.

- Do you really trust the local councils not to misuse these powers? Remember what they did with RIPA.

- Do you really think that they state should have such powers, that can be used willy nilly against all and sundry? The state cannot be trusted.

- Imagine a time, not long hence, when ZaNuLabour increases council tax to unprecedented proportions. Under the current system there would be a wave of non payments, and people would use due process (as councils took them to court etc) to humiliate the government. Under these new powers the state would simply lock individuals down financially", at the stroke of a pen. How would you function without any bank account? This would kill any council tax protest stone dead within a matter of days.

The chairman of the Police Federation, Paul McKeever, is well pissed off with this; noting that the decision to hand over "intrusive powers" to people who were not police was made without consultation or debate.

He is quoted in The Times:

"The Proceeds of Crime Act is a very powerful tool in the hands of police and police-related agencies and it shouldn't be treated lightly.

There is a behind the scenes creep of powers occurring here and I think the public will be very surprised.

They would want such very intrusive powers to be kept in the hands of warranted officers and other law enforcement bodies which are vetted to a very high standard rather than given to local councils."

The Home Orifice (remember it has been classified as "not fit for purpose") has a plan to "embed" financial seizure in the criminal justice system. Labour have set a target to recover £250M in criminal assets by 2010, rising to £1BN per year soon after.

Ah Hah!

Ker Farking Ching!

We are all designated as prostrate milch cows, to be milked dry via taxes and fines in order to feed the ever growing appetite of the state.

Oh, and by the way, Nanny intends to create a whole new body of financial investigators who will be accredited, trained and monitored by yet another quango, the National Policing Improvement Agency.

More money here from course fees!

More interfering busybodies in uniforms to crush the individual!

Do you not see what ZaNuLabour (wasn't it the Telegraph that claimed that I had lost all sense of proportion the other day by calling them that?) is doing here?

They are creating a police state, that even the police don't want!

A Home Orifice memo states:

"Investigation bodies will receive a share of money recovered as additional funding to incentivise further work in recovering the proceeds of crime."

Thereby neatly incentivising these bodies to create false charges, in order to earn some more money.

As we all know the councils etc already have powers to reclaim debt etc, they most certainly do not need these extra powers.

They most certainly cannot be trusted with them!

The memo also say that the councils will be "less reliant on more traditional law enforcement agencies, notably the police".

Another police force has been created, under the direct control of the state.

THAT IS WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Power corrupts!

The state, under ZaNuLabour, has become the enemy of the people.

Here is Johnson's email Alan Johnson.

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Send In Your Uniform

As we know, Nanny is dead keen to start wars in foreign countries on the pretext of introducing "democracy".

A "noble" thought I suppose, if it weren't for a few inconvenient issues eg:

- people get maimed and killed

- you cannot impose democracy with the barrel of a gun

- not every country in the world wants our version of "democracy"

- the financial cost of these wars is crippling

- these wars are suffering from mission creep, as a result of lousy/dishonest political "leadership" from Brown and his toadies

- wrt Afghanistan, if we really are to stand a chance of "democratising" this country (and by the way, I don't think we have a cat's chance in hell - we got our arses kicked in Victorian times there, and the Russians suffered a similar fate at the hands of the US funded Taliban in the 1980's), then we are going to be there for 40 years or more

- once maimed our soldiers don't even get decent treatment, viz Nanny's recent attempt to reduce compensation payments

- the loyalty of our troops is being severely tested, as an unthinking uncaring and thoroughly despicable government sends them on missions without adequate support/kit/equipment etc

In view of the above I heartily endorse the "Send In Your Uniform To Brown" Campaign as per ARRSE:

"This is a protest, driven by the constant betrayals of this government, including ignoring the pleas of Service chiefs for life-saving resources, sending personnel to battle with inadequate or unsafe equipment and vehicles, and this latest kick in the teeth for injured veterans."

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Well Said Dame Stella!

I doff my hat to Dame Stella Rimington, ex head of MI5, who has lambasted Nanny's lackeys in the government for turning this country into a police state and for using fear to kowtow the population.

Here is an article in the Telegraph about what she said:

Dame Stella accused ministers of interfering with people’s privacy and playing straight into the hands of terrorists.

“Since I have retired I feel more at liberty to be against certain decisions of the Government, especially the attempt to pass laws which interfere with people’s privacy,” Dame Stella said in an interview with a Spanish newspaper.

“It would be better that the Government recognised that there are risks, rather than frightening people in order to be able to pass laws which restrict civil liberties, precisely one of the objects of terrorism: that we live in fear and under a police state,” she said.

Dame Stella, 73, added: “The US has gone too far with Guantánamo and the tortures. MI5 does not do that. Furthermore it has achieved the opposite effect: there are more and more suicide terrorists finding a greater justification.” She said the British secret services were “no angels” but insisted they did not kill people.

Dame Stella became the first woman director general of MI5 in 1992 and was head of the security agency until 1996. Since stepping down she has been a fierce critic of some of the Government’s counter-terrorism and security measures, especially those affecting civil liberties.

In 2005, she said the Government’s plans for ID cards were “absolutely useless” and would not make the public any safer. Last year she criticised attempts to extend the period of detention without charge for terrorism suspects to 42 days as excessive, shortly before the plan was rejected by Parliament.

Her latest remarks were made as the Home Office prepares to publish plans for a significant expansion of state surveillance, with powers for the police and security services to monitor every email, as well as telephone and internet activity.

Despite considerable opposition to the plan, the document will say that the fast changing pace of communication technology means the security services will not be able to properly protect the public without the new powers.

Local councils have been criticised for using anti-terrorism laws to snoop on residents suspected of littering and dog fouling offences.

David Davis, the Tory MP and former shadow home secretary, said: “Like so many of those who have had involvement in the battle against terrorism, Stella Rimington cares deeply about our historic rights and rightly raises the alarm about a Government whose first interest appears to be to use the threat of terrorism to frighten people and undermine those rights rather than defend them.”

In a further blow to ministers, an international study by lawyers and judges accused countries such as Britain and America of “actively undermining” the law through the measures they have introduced to counter terrorism.

The report, by the International Commission of Jurists, said: “The failure of states to comply with their legal duties is creating a dangerous situation wherein terrorism, and the fear of terrorism, are undermining basic principles of international human rights law.”

The report claimed many measures introduced were illegal and counter-productive and that legal systems put in place after the Second World War were well equipped to handle current threats. Arthur Chaskelson, the chairman of the report panel, said: “In the course of this inquiry, we have been shocked by the damage done over the past seven years by excessive or abusive counter-terrorism measures in a wide range of countries around the world.

“Many governments, ignoring the lessons of history, have allowed themselves to be rushed into hasty responses to terrorism that have undermined cherished values and violated human rights.’’

A Home Office spokesman said: “The Government has been clear that where surveillance or data collection will impact on privacy they should only be used where it is necessary and proportionate. The key is to strike the right balance between privacy, protection and sharing of personal data.

“This provides law enforcement agencies with the tools to protect the public as well as ensuring government has the ability to provide effective public services while ensuring there are effective safeguards and a solid legal framework that protects civil liberties.”

In her interview, in La Vanguardia newspaper, Dame Stella also described the shock of her two daughters when they discovered she was a spy and told how she used most “gadgets” when she was in office except for “a gun’’.

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