You are not alone

A little while ago I wrote that Blair's New Labour Levellers are a shambles on the freedom front. They wouldn't know what freedom was if captain freedom himself beat them half to death with his freedom bat. Well, it seems that many others are thinking along similar lines:

An overwhelming majority of voters think the Government is going too far in restricting individual liberties on issues like smoking, smacking and fox-hunting, according to a poll released today.

Some 71% of people questioned by ICM for thinktank Reform agreed that too many “infringements on personal liberty” were being proposed.

And the poll suggested Prime Minister Tony Blair was even alienating his own supporters with “nanny state” legislation, with 62% of Labour voters agreeing too many restrictions were being imposed.

Also carried by The Adam Smith Institute blog.