Blair's 'frenzied law making' : a new offence for every day spent in office
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, who uncovered the figures, said: "Nothing can justify the step change in the number of criminal offences invented by this Government. 
I've long argued that Blair is the most reactionary Labour Prime Minister of all time and now, at last comes the proof.
It turns out Blair has created some 3000 new criminal offences during his nine years in power. This is almost one new offence for every day that he has been in power.
To put this in some kind of perspective, during the last nine years of the Thatcher/Major Tory administration they created 500 new criminal offences.
And the longer Blair stays in power, this worrying trend seems to increase rather than decrease.In 1998, Labour's first full year in power, 160 new offences passed into legislation, rising to 346 in 2000 and 527 in 2005.
In 2005 alone he created more criminal offences than the Tories did during their entire last nine years in power.
This provides a devastating insight into the real legacy of nine years of New
Labour government - a frenzied approach to law-making, thousands of new
offences, an illiberal belief in heavy-handed regulation, an obsession with
controlling the minutiae of everyday life.
"The result? A country less free than before, and a marked erosion of the trust which should exist between the Government and the governed."
He said ministers had failed to grasp the simple truth that "weighing down the statute book" with new laws was "no substitute for good government".
The truth is that whenever the Daily Mail complain about some trend in society - Blair, anxious to hold on their right wing slobbering readers - has issued a new law to appease them.
It is for this reason that Blair wants to introduce ID cards. He has already admitted that they do bugger all in the war against terror, but they do reassure the readers of the Daily Mail that "something is being done" about asylum seekers.
I never thought I'd see the day that a Labour Prime Minister allowed laws to be created to appease the most reactionary wing of the Conservative Party.
But it has come to pass....
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