UK opposition party force vote on NASA hacker Gary McKinnon's extradition case

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There are two main parties in the UK - Labour and Conservative. Labour would be similar to Democrats, and Conservative is broadly equivalent to the Republican party.

What is more surprising is that the fate of a hacker has become a political election issue (it's almost election time in UK), which goes to show the growing appreciation of the importance of IT to government for critical services.

UK conservatives are far more conservative then the US conservatives. I hope they win, and Gary is not extradited.

If you look at many of the Tory policies, they're very very much to the left of the Republicans and even many Democrats.

That's what's called "libertarianism" in the US. That's what I meant by my above statement, as in this is what "true" conservatism looks like.

To all the downvoters: "conservative" and "liberal" mean very different things in the US and UK.

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