Gordon Brown yesterday moved to polish his credentials as a thinking liberal when he announced an ambitious series of "liberty test" reviews designed to strengthen individual freedoms against arbitrary powers of the state
The Times -
Gordon Brown is planning to put the opposition parties on the spot by doubling the time that terrorist suspects can be held without charge from 28 days to 56 days.
The Times -
Gordon Brown is planning to put the opposition parties on the spot by doubling the time that terrorist suspects can be held without charge from 28 days to 56 days.
Remember how we guffawed when Brown said that the age of spin was dead. I remember chortling so hard that the Booby thought I was having some sort of attack. This idea that Brown is different to Blair is bizarre. The two of them concoted this experiment - Blair grinned to the world and Brown paid for it. Brown was there - signing the cheques so that it could all happen , voting in line with the government and nodding along as Blair perfomed at PMQs like that Churchill Insurance dog - all the way along. They may hate each other but they needed each other and they are, for all intents and purposes, ideologically the same.
We were told that this son of the manse would tell us straight. He wouldn't sweeten the medicine. If we were fucked, he'd tell us we were fucked. No more spin, no more politicking, no more lying, no more mendacious behaviour, no more speeches about nothing, no more consulting everyone about nothing.
Well, ladies and gentleman, as many of us said at the time -that, of course, was total fucking horseradish. All huff and blow. Remember the old joke? How can you tell a politician is lying? And the answer was 'When his lips are moving'. This shower of cretinous bastards have taken it a step further. Their lips don't even need to be moving for them to by lying... they can think contradictory things at once. And believe both.
How can you at the same time want to strengthen individual liberties against arbitrary state power and at the same time want to double the amount of time a suspect can be held without a charge being brought against them?
How exactly does doubling the amount of time that a terrorist SUSPECT can be held WITHOUT CHARGE from just under one month to just under two whole months pass any liberty test? How does this 'strengthen individual freedoms' in any way? What does New Labour mean by individual freedom?
This sort of doublespeak would make Chuckles Blair blush. This sordid crew that passes itself of as government should be fucking ashamed of itself... but they won't be, of course, because shame isn't in their limited range of emotions.
RS
We were told that this son of the manse would tell us straight. He wouldn't sweeten the medicine. If we were fucked, he'd tell us we were fucked. No more spin, no more politicking, no more lying, no more mendacious behaviour, no more speeches about nothing, no more consulting everyone about nothing.
Well, ladies and gentleman, as many of us said at the time -that, of course, was total fucking horseradish. All huff and blow. Remember the old joke? How can you tell a politician is lying? And the answer was 'When his lips are moving'. This shower of cretinous bastards have taken it a step further. Their lips don't even need to be moving for them to by lying... they can think contradictory things at once. And believe both.
How can you at the same time want to strengthen individual liberties against arbitrary state power and at the same time want to double the amount of time a suspect can be held without a charge being brought against them?
How exactly does doubling the amount of time that a terrorist SUSPECT can be held WITHOUT CHARGE from just under one month to just under two whole months pass any liberty test? How does this 'strengthen individual freedoms' in any way? What does New Labour mean by individual freedom?
This sort of doublespeak would make Chuckles Blair blush. This sordid crew that passes itself of as government should be fucking ashamed of itself... but they won't be, of course, because shame isn't in their limited range of emotions.
RS
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