Sometimes vindication can be a bitter pill. Despite the intensity of my belief that this government was systematically undermining our historic freedoms, even l was shocked by the senseless and insensitive behaviour of our police force in arresting my close friend and colleague, Damian Green. read more | digg story
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Bill to allow Commons searches with no warrant — The Independent
From The Independent: The vow by Commons Speaker Michael Martin to prevent “unauthorised” raids on MPs’ offices in the wake of the Damian Green affair was seriously undermined last night as it emerged that the Government is preparing new laws to allow investigators to mount parliamentary searches without a warrant. […]
Read MoreWhy the Damian Green affair vacillates between tragedy and farce: the law is a mess
A key problem underlying the Green affair may be that no one really knows what powers the police have of entry and seizure, or ought to have, in Parliament or anywhere else. The CPS paper “Crossing the Threshold” is rather long, but it precisely identifies this problem and proposes a […]
Read MoreIndependence from the state
From 1968: To return to the personal theme, if we accept the need for increasing responsibility for self and family it means that we must stop approaching things in an atmosphere of restriction. There is nothing wrong in people wanting larger incomes. It would seem a worthy objective for men […]
Read MoreYard at war over arrest of Tory MP – Times Online
As the political storm grew, MPs and civil liberties groups questioned the role of Sir Paul Stephenson, who took temporary charge of the Metropolitan police when Sir Ian Blair left office last week. Stephenson was regarded as the favourite to succeed Blair, but one senior police officer described him yesterday […]
Read MoreFT.com – The police, and the state, are out of control
Opinion from the FT: The police are out of control. So is the government. We can only conjecture as to what possessed the senior officers who raided the homes and parliamentary office of Damian Green, the Conservative immigration spokesman. Yet their disdain for political process spoke eloquently to the authoritarian […]
Read MoreYBF – An Assault on Liberty and Democracy
The Young Britons’ Foundation responds to the Damian Green arrest with a poster repeating some inspiring words from David Cameron: I believe that too many of those who trust in freedom and responsibility have failed to understand the calibre of the Conservative leader and the pressures he is under after […]
Read MoreGordon Brown confesses
Thanks to Guido Fawkes, Gordon Brown smirking about his mole:
Read More“The Speaker has let us down in something of incalculable importance”
Richard Bacon MP on conservativehome.com: The right to oppose the government of the day is vastly more important than which political party happens to hold office. It is the cardinal fact which defines us as a free country. read more
Read MoreThe six facts causing Tories alarm about Damian Green
Mobile phone seized; parliamentary computer seized; police aggressive at the Parliamentary “crime scene”; flat searched with wife and daughters at home; up to 20 counter terrorist police involved; Cameron informed of search as the police “marched up the steps” of Parliament. David Davis: For five years I have avoided using […]
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🗣️”A Labour government is the worst kind of government for the working man [and woman].”
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![😡 A wise building site carpenter once said to me,
🗣️”A Labour government is the worst kind of government for the working man [and woman].”
🇬🇧 True then. True today. We battle on.](https://www.stevebaker.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/442413775_18432903037051538_3387178564604183858_n.jpg)
