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Question applies to Con Party MPs as well, not just Labour ones.
[“Facial recognition technology to be rolled out across the UK. Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood makes a false analogy here. Finger prints are only are taken from criminals. Facial recognition is taken from all of us, treating us all like criminals. Linked to digital ID it will reinforce the state control. All your digital and physical movements can be monitored.
“A hundred years ago, fingerprinting was decried as curtailing our civil liberties, but today we could not imagine policing without it. I have no doubt the same will prove true of facial recognition technology in the years to come.”]
Police-state encroachment continues.
Rather alarming that Blaise Metreweli, the new SIS/MI6 Chief, seems to think that the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was somehow useful in WW2. Au contraire. Shambolic and mismanaged, with very poor security, and employing officers and agents often distinguished by their amateurishness.
SOE was disbanded very quickly after WW2, because it had outlived whatever usefulness it may have had.
Incidentally, it has been argued that SOE’s main enemy in WW2 was, at least at times, not the German Abwehr and SD orgs, but SIS, Ms. Metreweli’s own organization.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive; and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive#Later_analysis_and_commentaries.
That must have given those inscrutable Oriental gentlemen a few laughs.
How many does Israel have?
Ian Robert Millard 