Ed Balls

Ed Balls is the Children's Secretary of Britain. He will spend £400 million ($668 million) installing and monitoring surveillance cameras in the homes of private citizens in an attempt to make sure kids are doing their homework, eating the right food, and not watching porn (that last one I made up but it's included in the "good behavior" category). This program is aimed at dysfunctional families -- the idea is that if a child has a more stable home life, he won't get caught up in drugs or crime when he grows up. As if that hasn't been proven.

And this is all with the liberal government. The conservatives want even more spying. The Shadow Home Secretary said:

This is all much too little, much too late.

This Government has been in power for more than a decade during which time anti-social behaviour, family breakdown and problems like alcohol abuse and truancy have just got worse and worse.

Amazingly, this has already been going on for 2,000 family homes. Maybe somebody needs to hand these people a copy of 1984.

Insert your own joke here about Ed Balls catching a kid on camera watching porn.