28 May 2007

The police state the police don't want

Frustrated by those damned activist judges and restrained by the UK's obligations under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the Blair government, led on this front by the irascible John Reid, have demanded more powers for the police to harass and detain ordinary folks. The trouble is that the Old Bill don't actually want them. Haven't they read St. Tony's comment piece from yesterday's Times where he instructs us that all of this concern over human rights is just so much fiddle faddle and that we all have to surrender these freedoms in order that his legacy is secure? I'll bet that they haven't.

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