London Metropolitan Police admits role in blacklisting construction workers
Apparently this was on the BBC front page this morning, but somehow I blinked and missed it.<p>I don't have any trade union axe to grind, but I'm pretty shocked both by the security services behaviour, and by the lack of coverage this is getting.<p>Whatever your opinion on trade unions, it's a pretty fundamental threat to democracy when the security services monitor legal behaviour and can destroy someone's livelihood for behaviour they disapprove of.<p>And .. why isn't this on the BBC News front page all day?  I get most of my news there, and now I worry how many other democracy-shaking stories I might have missed.