Bonehead

The Press Association: Green's arrest 'a police matter'

So he thinks we're gonna believe he wasn't aware that something like this wouldn't get to him before it all kicks off?

My God, this is like something out of Cold War Russia.

He's going on about the Police being independant. His lot have done more damage to the public impression of the Police than anyone else.

I sat and watched Flash on Sky News this morning lying through his teeth saying he knew nothing about this and his hands were clean.
Does he seriously believe we're to think he wouldn't have been made aware at some stage about something as pollitically sensitive as this?

It beggars belief

Martin2005

I think it's unlikely he knew nothing about this, however....
lets not forget the Met have got 'form', remember the all the Lord Levy / Tony Blair nonsense a couple of years back, they couldn't put a case together, but that didn't stop them wasting public money just to show how big their ***** were.

unclebuck

I think McBroon's banana republic is getting more and more like Zimbabwe, what with the willful destruction of the economy and the sending in of the boys to rough up the opposition.

Leslie

I seem to remember mentioning the dangers of anti terrorist forces to our civil liberties! They discovered some very old law under which to arrest him and to search his house etc. even though it did not apply to what had happened. He was questioned for 1-2 hrs and held for 9 hours!!

This lot get more sinister every time!

Les

coolangatta

You guys make me spit!
Next time there's a bomb under your ar5e5, please don't complain about the police and governments lack of effort to prevent it

Kieran_Burns

iTrader: (1)

You're the 2nd person to make that connection... and I think others will as well. It frightens me that it now appears that the police are being used to impose political will so openly.

SJ_Skyline

There's one big difference between Brown and Mugabe that you must NEVER forget.

















More people voted for Mugabe!

coolangatta

What does 'political will' mean?
If it means what I think you refer to, ask the miners about Mrs thatchers use of 'Political will' if you thinks it's unusual or unique.

Martin2005

Well Zimbabwe population is significantly larger than GB's constituency so what would you expect?

Unless you are trying to make some not-so-clever point about general elections, if so you should go look at how parliamentary systems work

coolangatta

No sense whatsoever!
You, fortunately, live in a country where you can express your opinion and vote freely without fear of violence or death. You insult those who have suffered under the Mugabe regime, and those who strive to have the freedoms that you squander so frivolously here!

CharlesW

coolangatta

Cheap. Also you won't pay with a beating or your life for expressing your 'cheap' viewpoint

CharlesW

Not yet. Anyway isn't a little satire allowed.

Leslie

Flash has not had to get the baseball bats out-yet!

Les

coolangatta

Not yet meaning 'no you won't' and yes satire is allowable (in the UK at least) but using a regime like Mugabe's as a supposed mirror of the political system you enjoy is simply absurd. But go ahead, it's your right under the government 'you' voted for. Enjoy!

warrenm2

How about this then?

THE PURGE BEGINS - The Daily Mash

tanyatriangles

iTrader: (2)

OK, so Boris was told, David cameron was told, the Speaker of the House was told...................But Brown and the Home secretary weren't?

Yeah, and a pig just flew right past my window

What was it someone on here called them? Lying Labour

coolangatta

What about it? It's a joke, or did you not get it?

warrenm2

I think you're the one not getting it

coolangatta

Not sure how 'new born' you are but surely you recognise that this, and probably almost every government, have denied knowledge of things when it suited to do so. Doesn't mean they were party to the things they deny knowledge of, does it?

Bonehead

You what ?!?

CharlesW

Of course it's a joke. It's satire. But what the satire is criticising is not a joke. It's extremely worrying whatever your political persuasion.

The home office have called in the police to find the mole who is leaking information that is embarrasing to this government. It has nothing whatsoever to with national security. Damian Green along with the press was a recipient of these leaks. That is not a crime. So why not just ask him if he would care to divulge the source of this information. He would probably declare like the press that he would not divulge his sources.

No. The police, including members of the Anti-Terrorist Squad turn up in his constituency in Kent; arrest him; take him to a police station in London, while they search his constituency office, his home, his business premises and worst of all his office in the House of Commons.

The last time that that happened resulted in the then executive power - the king losing his head and the country plunging into civil war.

As to Gordon "not knowing" :

Either he was informed like Boris that the arrest would take place and did nothing to dissuade the police from this action. He must of worked out the political consequences of this. If not he is a bigger fool than I took him for.

He genuinely didn't know what was about to happen. In which case he can hardly claim to govern the country.

Or he did know and sanctioned if not commissioned it.

The Sunday papers should make interesting reading this weekend.

spireite

Is that the striking miners or miners that wanted to go to work but who were threatened if they did


coolangatta
No sense whatsoever!
You, fortunately, live in a country where you can express your opinion and vote freely without fear of violence or death.

Tell that to the Welsh miner killed when a cocrete block was thrown through his car window from a motorway bridge .

OllyK

Personally I'll take that risk over the further reduction in my liberty.

OllyK

I certainly didn't vote for them and neither did the majority of the country.

Martin2005

In what way have your liberties been reduce, I mean real, genuine and tangible reductions.

Comments like yours make for great sound bites, but the substance is usually somewhat lacking

tanyatriangles

iTrader: (2)

Try telling that to Walter Wolfgang, Jean-Charles de Menezes, anyone wanting to protest outiode the Houses of Parliament or Downing Street.........

OllyK

I'm more annoyed about having to delete my S&M **** collection

Martin2005

Well the often mentioned Wolfgang incident happened several YEARS AGO now, yet still seems to be the only real example people can point to.

De Menezes was killed by anti-terrorist police, not by legislation - so I don't know why you even used this example.

Everytime I go past the house of Parliament there are protest of some sort going on....