New film 'exposes Orwellian Labour'

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New film 'exposes Orwellian Labour'

Nigel Reynolds
London Telegraph
Wednesday May 02, 2007

Coming soon to a cinema near you, Blair: The Movie. After 18 months of secrecy, a British director disclosed yesterday that he had made a damning Michael Moore-style documentary feature film about Mr Blair's 10 years in office which he is to release nationwide on June 8.

The 90-minute film, Taking Liberties, focuses on the erosion of civil liberties and the increase of surveillance under Labour.

The director, Chris Atkins, said yesterday that he wanted to expose "the Orwellian state" that now threatened Britain as a result of Mr Blair's policies.

Shot for £500,000, it re-tells the stories of several well-publicised cases in which personal freedoms have been curtailed by new laws. Prominent among them is David Bermingham and "the NatWest Three", the bankers extradited to America last year on wire fraud charges, and Maya Evans, the peace campaigner found guilty of breaking the ban on unauthorised protests near Westminster for reading out the names of 97 British soldiers killed in Iraq near the Cenotaph.

Also featured will be Walter Wolfgang, the elderly Jewish anti-war activist bundled out of Labour's 2005 party conference and held under anti-terrorism laws for shouting out "rubbish" during a speech by Jack Straw.

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