Bugging Your Own

Just when you thought that our leaders had reached rock bottom, we see them hitting a new low. Because now we have the Labour government bugging Labour MPs, in contravention of a Labour doctrine set up by a Labour PM. There is some validity in asking why MPs should be saved from bugging when no-one else is, but that’s not my point here. What strikes me is the crippling, jaw-dropping paranoia behind this incident. Not only do they not trust the electorate, they don’t trust their own MPs. It is that murky X-Files mentality: Trust No-One.

It was a bugging scandal that brought down Richard Nixon. Let’s hope that Nu Labour is finally brought down by this scandal – or any of the other numerous scandals surrounding this tattered, tired mess of an administration – sooner rather than later. Britain deserves a much more capable and a much less paranoid government.