[Wild Oscar]

Well, hot on the heels of my previous post today .. I also used writetothem.com to send a message (similar to the Paul Clark one) to my MEP's .. one reply already .. from Nigel Farage (UKIP)

Thank you for your message about the disturbing activities of "Phorm".

I wrote to the Information Commissioner on this subject, two weeks ago,
urging him to consider that Phorm's assertions of its activities'
legality were, at best, technical loopholes in the law. I await a
reply.

Since then, however, I have heard that the EU (a completely
non-democratic organisation) is attempting to introduce legislation,
which would make Phorm's invasion of privacy perfectly legal. The EU's
excuse for doing this is that the entertainment-industry should be able
to trace all downloads of music and films to ensure that
copyright-duties are paid.

The industry will be able to require ISP's to trace and store all the
web-activity of every user - ostensibly - for this purpose, but it is
obvious to me that the information made available, in this way, will
have a multitude of applications both commercial and political.

The UKIP - in the EU's largely fake "parliament" - together with allies
on the Right and the Left, has already begun to fight these proposals
and scored an initial victory with the introduction (by a mere 17 votes)
of an amendment (to a stalking-horse proposal) which deplores the EU's
adoption of a code of penalties for internet-users.

The Commission now knows that there is a potential majority, in the
Assembly, against an internet-surveillance directive, but it has other
ways of introducing such instruments, and will be impossible to block in
the long run.

Ultimately, the only way to prevent such measures - and avoid the growth
of a totalitarian state of "Europe" - is to break the EU's hold over its
disenfranchised populations - starting with the UK.

Yours sincerely

Nigel Farage