Remember when the first CCTV street cameras were introduced? Up went the liberal cry of "it's 1984" even if it was, in fact, 1987.
But Flint Council has gone further with its surveillance team that follows domiciliary care workers as they drive between service users - using the boy-racer method of tailgating, by looks of it.
One of the workers is reported, in the Daily Telegraph, to have nearly crashed, so frightened was she of her pursuers.
The council denies claims of spying but does admit monitoring its home care workers to ensure quality. Perhaps it could add safety to that and then go on to think intelligently about why it feels the need to follow its employees.
