IT was with some amusement that I read the comment by Hugh Bayley in the Press article "Battle to beat rubbish louts" (April 28).

Mr Bayley was reported to have said: "This is like Big Brother. People should co-operate by putting their rubbish out on the right day, but it's a step too far when council officials start rummaging through plastic bags to check who has put them out."

I rubbed my eyes and double-checked. Yes, it's true, Hugh Bayley said it was like Big Brother.

This coming from our MP, who wishes to force us all to carry ID cards, register our intimate details on the NIR and use those details to control our lives. Mr Bayley plans to allow officials to rummage about in far more than our plastic bags.

Mr Bayley and his Government should be more concerned with why junior doctors' private information was released into the public domain. He expects us to trust him and his Big Brother Government with our personal details to be entered onto the NHS Spine and NIR databases, able to be accessed by thousands of people.

Mr Bayley went on to say: "If they suspect that somebody is putting out their rubbish early, they should knock on their door."

Again I had to scrutinise what I was reading. Mr Bayley wants officials to knock on our doors all right, but to send council tax snoopers around our homes and to come looking for us if we refuse to register for an ID card.

A few people deterring litter louts is hardly Big Brother when compared to what Mr Bayley and New Labour have in store for us all.

T Scaife, Manor Drive, York.