SIR – John Pashley asks ‘Where’s the logic?’ with regard to the recycling permit scheme (T&A, April 9).
I don’t think there is any logic, but the policy tells you all you need to know about the mentality of the New Labour Party, which is increasingly becoming a party championing law of ‘authorisation’.
This is, of course, consistent with their previous policies of allowing protest only in specific designated areas and their obsession with ID cards which would only allow card holders to access specific services.
Increasingly under Labour legislation you can only do specific things if you are authorised to, whereas in a free society the principle should be that you can do anything providing it is not illegal. This may on the surface not seem like a huge difference but over time will begin to become quite oppressive.
The New Labour Party thinking is becoming progressively more repressive.
Jason Smith, UKIP Bradford chairman, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury, Bradford
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