The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2000 has been used to stop 62,584 people at railway stations and another 87,000 were questioned under “stop and search” and “stop and account” legislation.
That comes from The Telegraph, which reports comments from Lib Dem transport spokesman Norman Baker.
Clearly this is another example of overzealous application of laws in areas for which they were never designed – just like the way the government used anti-terror legislation to seize the money in Icelandic bank accounts in the UK when those banks went belly-up.
