42 Days

So current Home Secretary Jacqui (or however the f**k she spells it) Smith wants to detain terrorist suspects for 42 days without charge then? Oh, but she won’t release any actual evidence as to why it’s required, only that she believes that it might be useful in the future. What a lot of bollocks!

Why don’t they release the evidence? In fact why don’t they try being a more open with what info they have generally? Why don’t they tell us for instance, “Well there’s a bunch of lads in a terrace in (insert address here) who we suspect of planning a terrorist atrocity.”? I’m bloody sure that if they did that, there wouldn’t be much need for the security services to keep the suspects under watch any longer. The law-abiding locals could do that quite nicely, thank you!

Frankly there is no need for Britain to have a longer period of pre-charge detention on the statute books. We already have one of the longest periods of any developed nation. It’s the overly controlling government trying to look tough again while doing f**k all about the actual causes of whatever terrorist threat we face. I strongly suspect that the actual threat is hugely magnified to let this shower of cretins push through bill after bill relatively unopposed.

I only hope enough of their own backbenchers grow a spine and kick this bill into touch. To see the government slapped down over this once again would be marvellous. Then we can get started on the ID card bullshit.