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Cameron targets 'freedom enemies' Cameron targets 'freedom enemies'
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The UK's Labour government and European Union bureaucrats are "enemies of freedom", the Conservative leader is to tell an audience in the Czech Republic. The loss of personal data by HM Revenue and Customs is symptomatic of the Labour government's "bureaucratic over-reach", David Cameron has warned.
David Cameron will attack those he says are preparing "a renewed assault on our liberty" and who must be "derailed". The Tory leader branded the government "enemies of freedom" driven by "outdated ideology" in a speech in the Czech capital, Prague.
He will cite the proposed national identity register in the UK as one example of "bureaucratic over-reach". He was addressing a conference of the ruling Civic Democratic Party (ODS).
He will also attack EU plans for tax harmonisation, at the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) conference in Prague. Tories and the ODS plan to form a new European Parliament grouping after European elections in 2009.
'Out of date' Mr Cameron hailed the centre-right party's record of cutting taxes, of economic reform and fighting EU regulation.
The state is being allowed to "creep further and further into the lives of British people" as a result of an "outdated ideology", Mr Cameron will say. Their ideas are out of date, their methods have failed and their advance must be derailed David Cameron
The over-complicated tax credit system and the loss of personal data by HM Revenue and Customs are symptoms of the failure of this approach, he will add. He told activists that both the ODS and Tories were battling "a renewed assault on our liberty", and said: "Today, in this continent and around the world, history is on our side."
The defenders of the bureaucratic age have over-reached themselves David Cameron Mr Cameron accused ministers of allowing the state to "creep further and further into the lives of British people" because of old-fashioned notions that officialdom knows best.
Mr Cameron will single out what he terms the "politicians and public officials who believe that they know best how to organise our lives". "They do not mean to harm us. In fact, they mean to help us. But their ideas are out of date, their methods have failed and their advance must be derailed," he argued.
"They do not mean to harm us," he will say. "In fact, they mean to help us. But their ideas are out of date, their methods have failed and their advance must be derailed. 'Post-bureaucratic age'
"In their desire to control, to regulate, to direct, the defenders of the bureaucratic age have over-reached themselves. Mr Cameron continued: "This week we saw a shocking consequence of this bureaucratic over-reach: a scandal where the Government has lost the names, addresses and bank details of almost every family in the country."
"They have gone too far. They have tried to do too much. And it has exposed the historic error of their ways." David Cameron and the Czech PM plan to join forces in Europe
Homogenisation The proposed national identity card register would compound the problem, he predicted.
He will argue bureaucratic over-reach could be seen in the EU with its "desire for harmonisation and homogenisation - on tax, on regulation, on so many aspects of public and private life". The Tory leader also turned his fire on bureaucratic over-reach in the EU, which he said was driven by "the desire for harmonisation and homogenisation - on tax, on regulation, on so many aspects of public and private life".
Mr Cameron is also due to hold talks with Mirek Topolanek, the ODS leader and Czech Republic's prime minister. And he added: "It is the last gasp of an outdated ideology, a philosophy that has no place in our new world of freedom, a world which demands that we fight this bureaucratic over-reach and lead Europe into the hope and potential of a new, post-bureaucratic age."
The Conservatives and the centre-right ODS plan to form a new European Parliament grouping after European elections in 2009, leaving the federalist European People's Party. Mr Cameron also held private talks with ODS leader and Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek.
The ODS is the only other party to have signed up to his plan to create a new centre-right grouping in the European Parliament, the Movement for European Reform.
Tories and the ODS plan to leave the right-of-centre European People's Party.