42 Days: For Fuck's Sake

So he won. Gordon Brown managed to break his losing streak, and managed to win something. And, Christ help us, it was the vote on 42 days detention. And how did he achieve this? Bribery, of course! This will be the major policy innovation of the Brown years. If there is a problem, if there is a potential defeat, throw money at it. After all, there is a limitless amount of money the government can get if they want it - their source, the taxpayer, is obliged to fund them. As David Davis notes, the government bought the vote after they lost the argument.

But I'm not going to gripe about the government bribing people with the taxpayer's money too much. We should all be fucking used to that by now. Rather, my complaint is against every single fucking MP who managed voted for this. Those Nu Labour whores, the ironically named Democratic Unionists, that short, fat testicle of a woman Anne fucking Widdecombe - they are either brazenly corrupt, staggeringly naive or terrifyingly stupid.

Or, thinking about it, all of the above.

There is no excuse for this; none whatsoever. Parliament has handed yet more power to the state, and this power is wide open to abuse and will, I don't doubt for a second, be abused by someone somewhere some time soon. And the police don't need extra time to interrogate terror suspects - they have foiled enough plots, and caught enough criminals, with the law as it was before this fuck awful new law. If the Libertarian party want a great policy to nail their colours to, then a loud, determined and eloquent call for the repeal of this law would be a great place to start. Hell, if the Tories and the Lib Dems want to seperate themselves from this shitting government, they should stick the repeal of this law into their next election manifestos as well. Fighting this change to the law is not over, and it should be a point of principle for any incoming government to want to reverse this naive, paranoid and dictatorial little policy.

We all wake up this morning to a country that is a little less free, a little less liberal. That is the tragedy, and the ongoing battle will be to stop further erosions of freedom in this country.