David Davis, Crack Stuntman
Thursday, 12. June 2008, 15:15:23
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I wish David Davis was not resigning as a political stunt, which it surely is. As a simple political act, his resignation is puerile and pointless. However, I wish he was my MP. My own MP’s vote was bought by promises of policy reviews and more money for Northern Ireland. How I wish I had a picture of the DUP SELL OUT slogans on the pillars of the roads over the M2 round Ballymena. The St. Andrews Agreement was simply a warmed over Belfast Agreement. I was against that, but I was too young to vote in 1998 and I could accept the status quo. Now, Rev Dr Ian Richard Kyle Paisley and Peter Robinson have not just sold our constitution for a few million pounds of English taxpayers’ money, they have sold our very freedoms as subjects of Her Majesty The Queen. What short-term gains have Robinson and Paisley extracted from Gordon Brown? If Mr Brown’s statements are indeed correct, that he did not buy anyone’s vote, then what does the DUP think it can get from Brown in the future? Diane Abbott was correct, Gordon Brown won the vote, but he did not win the argument.
Gordon Brown’s plan for 42 days of detention without trial, was in the first case unnecessary. The provisions of this bill would only come into effect in a grave emergency, but the government already has powers basically to do as it likes in a state of emergency.
Second, this bill brings the commons into the judiciary. To hold someone for up to 42 days, the police must ask the Home Secretary for permission. The Home Secretary must then ask Parliament. The Commons should decide laws, not individual cases, that is for the Law Lords (or the Supreme Court, if it ever gets going).
Currently the only credible alternative to the DUP in my constituency is the UUP (though Sinn Fein is gaining ground) and the only UUP MP at Westminster is the Labour-leaning Lady Hermon, who voted with the government for 42 days’ detention.
Finally, the most disappointing aspect of this whole affair was that Bob Spink of the UKIP voted for the government. How can the UKIP claim to want to maintain British sovereignty in the face of ever-increasing EU powers, when Mr Spink voted for a bill that would allow a government to hold citizens of its own country for 42 days without charge. In my eyes, Mr Spink voting with the government to allow 42 days of detention is tantamount to ratifying the Lisbon Treaty.
I do not want to foment marital strife, but I hope now that Baroness Paisley of St George’s will see sense and vote against our government’s pernicious and illiberal bill when it is read in the Hosue of Lords.
David Davis for PM!
I wish David Davis was not resigning as a political stunt, which it surely is. As a simple political act, his resignation is puerile and pointless. However, I wish he was my MP. My own MP’s vote was bought by promises of policy reviews and more money for Northern Ireland. How I wish I had a picture of the DUP SELL OUT slogans on the pillars of the roads over the M2 round Ballymena. The St. Andrews Agreement was simply a warmed over Belfast Agreement. I was against that, but I was too young to vote in 1998 and I could accept the status quo. Now, Rev Dr Ian Richard Kyle Paisley and Peter Robinson have not just sold our constitution for a few million pounds of English taxpayers’ money, they have sold our very freedoms as subjects of Her Majesty The Queen. What short-term gains have Robinson and Paisley extracted from Gordon Brown? If Mr Brown’s statements are indeed correct, that he did not buy anyone’s vote, then what does the DUP think it can get from Brown in the future? Diane Abbott was correct, Gordon Brown won the vote, but he did not win the argument.
Gordon Brown’s plan for 42 days of detention without trial, was in the first case unnecessary. The provisions of this bill would only come into effect in a grave emergency, but the government already has powers basically to do as it likes in a state of emergency.
Second, this bill brings the commons into the judiciary. To hold someone for up to 42 days, the police must ask the Home Secretary for permission. The Home Secretary must then ask Parliament. The Commons should decide laws, not individual cases, that is for the Law Lords (or the Supreme Court, if it ever gets going).
Currently the only credible alternative to the DUP in my constituency is the UUP (though Sinn Fein is gaining ground) and the only UUP MP at Westminster is the Labour-leaning Lady Hermon, who voted with the government for 42 days’ detention.
Finally, the most disappointing aspect of this whole affair was that Bob Spink of the UKIP voted for the government. How can the UKIP claim to want to maintain British sovereignty in the face of ever-increasing EU powers, when Mr Spink voted for a bill that would allow a government to hold citizens of its own country for 42 days without charge. In my eyes, Mr Spink voting with the government to allow 42 days of detention is tantamount to ratifying the Lisbon Treaty.
I do not want to foment marital strife, but I hope now that Baroness Paisley of St George’s will see sense and vote against our government’s pernicious and illiberal bill when it is read in the Hosue of Lords.
David Davis for PM!
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