David Davis: at sixes and sevens
Apparently, if I’m reading David Davis correctly, you can derogate from Magna Carta for up to 21 days quite happily. Twenty-eight days is a seemingly tolerable ‘necessary evil’ even though it’s never been used properly. Twenty-nine days and upwards is a resigning issue.
Nope, I’m still none the wiser.
Posted on June 21st, 2008 at 9:46 am
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Apparantly, if I’m reading New Labour; the neo-con and the hang em and flog em sections of the Tory Party; and the political establishment and its commentariat in the Westminster bubble correctly, they don’t want people to be talking about Civil liberties, ID cards, spy cameras, using anti-terrorist legislation to spy on dog owners/parents of school children/people with bins, mass collection of DNA, mass phone and email/web browsing tapping and collection, fingerprinting school children, and a centralised and authoritarian corporate State.
Instead, they would rather peoples attention be diverted towards talking about whether David Davies can dance on the head of a pin; has an ego the size of Tony Blair; is secretly plotting to take over the Tory Party; or has the hots for the head of liberty.
And they said the big Brother format was dead??
No it ain’t. It’s just transferred itself to the blogesphere.
Coming up next week:
Will David Davies’s housemate Tony Benn be outed as a closet Tory?
Is Bob Marshal-Andrews secretly attracted to David Davies?
Is that David Davies’s real hair?
Why do we never see David Davies in a kilt? Has he really got a secret wooden leg?
Will David Davies be able to persuade his housemates Tony and Bob to Goose Step around the constituency with him?
Will David Davies quit the house and put his name forward for the Democratic Party nomination?
Are the New Labour Party, the political establishment and hangers on commentariat currently involved in a mass rolling on the floor, biting the carpet and splitting their sides because they’ve managed to get the blogesphere gossiping about personalities rather than the key issue?
On second thoughts, scrub that last question on the grounds that it’s a do bears shit in the wood/is the pope Catholic question.
Meanwhile, out in the big bad world the Home Secretary announced New efficiency targets for emptying the country of anyone not liked by the Daily Heil and the Sun.
“One person ejected from the country every eight minutes may have been good enough in the past but in a competitive globalised modern economy we have to be aiming for the challenging target of one every eight seconds” she said.
Elsewhere, a Junior Minister denied there is anything sinister in a New government initiative in issuing a cow bell to every young person under the age of twenty five. “It will provide an early warning of their approach to people of a nervous and paronoid disposition who are our core constituency, and will help keep the streets safe and our voters feeling more secure” he said. “When the scheme is successful we intend to roll it out to all people still living in the UK who have a skin tan factor of swarthy and above.”
When questioed about this in the House the Prime Minister denied he was pandering to populist prejudices designed to outflank the Neo-Nazis.
You could not make this situation up. No one would believe you.
Sometimes a howl of dispair is the only adequate response.
Davis is nothing but a running dog for the capitalist military industrial complex.
I think we should form a People’s Popular Front for 27 Days Detention. Real hard-nuts only, people who are willing to be detained without trial for their beliefs.
What is a “running dog”?
ejh’s latest blog post… Hallucinations
My only experience of one was with my Gran’s late miniature poodle, Sam. It was a antique, farting but much loved thing that shivered and wobbled about the place. Until the one time I took it out for a walk in a field and the decrepit old bastard set off like a John Prescott entering a free buffet and it outdistanced me with ease. Came back in its own sweet time, the sod.
Did it express a view in favour of the imperialist aggressors?
ejh’s latest blog post… Hallucinations
I confess I had to look up the term myself just a second ago; running dog is a translation from Mandarin for an insult meaning “imperialist lackey”. Pure stroke of luck that I used it in context.
Having re-read Dave’s rant above I realise that I was inspired by his use of the word “commentariat”. Another one I enjoyed was “blogesphere” (it’s like the blogosphere only more splogdy).
Do you think that if David Davis quits the house and put his name forward for the Democratic Party nomination he’ll be able to spell his own surname?
On the first comment - I thought David Davis *was* the hang-em-flog-em wing of the Tory Party.
“Do you think that if David Davis quits the house and put his name forward for the Democratic Party nomination he’ll be able to spell his own surname?”
At least someone is getting into the spirit of it.
Anyway, thanks for proving my point Lobster.