Power 2010 is conducting a citizens' vote on key proposals for political reform. The Manifesto Club is supporting the proposal to scrap the database state.

We believe that civil liberty is the most important issue of our age - and the basis for the political alliance for the future.

Josie Appleton puts the case for rolling back the regulatory state on the Power 2010 website.

VOTE HERE to scrap the database state!

The Home Office recently introduced new restrictions on international artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, temporary exhibitions, concerts or artists' residencies. Visitors now have to submit to a series of arduous and expensive proceedures to get their visa, and then more bureaucratic controls when they are in the UK. Already a series of concerts and residencies have been cancelled.

The Manifesto Club is coordinating a campaign against these regulations. The campaign is led by Manick Govinda, artists' adviser at Artsadmin, and has won support from artists, musicians, gallery directors, academics and students. Together we call for these parochial and suspicious regulations to be reconsidered, and affirm the vital contribution made by global artists and scholars to UK cultural and intellectual life.

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