Careless Talk Costs Lives

Nanny has decided to take yet another intrusive step into our lives.

She has decided to ask all pregnant women if they are being abused by their husbands or boyfriends.

Needless to say Nanny will not be doing the questioning herself, but will require doctors and health visitors to act as her eyes and ears. The "interviews" with pregnant women will take place in secret.

Using ordinary members of the public, to act as informers to the state is standard practice in dictatorships around the world. Seemingly Nanny wishes to emulate these tin pot dictatorships.

During the Second World War the people of Britain were warned that foreign enemy agents may be amongst them, and that they should be careful as to what they talked about.

Now the enemy is our own government, and yet again we will have to heed the warning:

"Careless talk costs lives".