Two reasons to be worried.

The most worrying thing about the poll on the right-hand side of this blog (apart from the options) is that 111 people think they are Salman Rushdie...

...I am also a bit perturbed that floppy-haired stud (not my opinion - apparently he has something of a female following) Boris Johnson agrees with me about New Labour:

Lefties are fundamentally interested in coercion and control, and across British society you can see the huge progress they are now making in achieving their objectives: in the erosions of free speech and civil liberties that are taking place under this government, in the ever more elaborate regulation of the workplace, the bans on hunting, smacking, smoking, the demented rules about the numbers of children you may take in a swimming pool, the proposed plan to tag your car to see where you have been, Prescott's mad spy satellites to see if you have built an unauthorised conservatory.