42 day ‘concessions’ unravelling already
Remember the widely reported last minute concession made to anti-42 day MPs that those suspects held longer than 28 days only to be released without charge would get three grand a day compensation? It’s news to Gordon Brown:
Asked if the compensation was going to be £3000 per day, the PMS said that the Home Office had been making clear that those were not numbers that the Government recognised.
Well, Home Office Minister Tony McNulty certainly ‘recognises’ the numbers:
McNulty told BBC television late Tuesday that suspects who are held for 42 days but eventually freed without charge could be paid compensation of 3,000 pounds.
We haven’t heard much mention of Gordon Brown’s fabled moral compass of late and one wonders where he’s mislaid it. I think it’s probably being used as a propeller on a light aircraft somewhere.
Posted on June 13th, 2008 at 11:14am under New Labour, T.W.A.T., The home front
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Don’t quite get this. McNulty said there might be payments of £3000 to people who are wrongly counter-terrorised; the PMS implies the payments aren’t going to be £3000 per day. Where’s the contradiction?
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I did particularly enjoy this spin of the moral compass:
Asked what our position would be, the PMS reiterated that it was something that we needed to keep under review, but we would want to look at what the circumstances were and what the position was at any one time, consult with our international partners and take a view.
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I don’t expect to see ANY person held for longer than 28 days to be released without charge. I believe that this government, and any realistic future governments, would rather spend far more money pursuing unwinnable prosecutions, or vindictively prosecuting people held for 28 days plus with relatively trivial offences, than they would endure the embarrassment of compensating ‘terrorsists’.
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