Damian Green: the FACTS, the SPECULATION and my OPINIONS

By now most of you will have heard about the disgraceful arrest of Conservative MP Damian Green for doing his duty in trying to hold the government to account.

I shall lay out before you the facts, the speculation and my opinions, and then allow you to formulate your own opinions on this matter.

FACTS

It is so hard to distinguish fact from speculation in this matter, however what is irrefutable is that last Thursday, November 27, Conservative MP Damian Green was arrested and held for nine hours, before being released on bail. His offices and homes were searched by police. The Serjeant at Arms, Jill Pay, allowed the police to enter Parliament to conduct the search. Speaker Michael Martin was made aware that the arrest and search was to take place.

SPECULATION

It is widely assumed that, if not Gordon Brown, at least Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was made aware of the arrest prior to it taking place. It is also known that Michael Martin knew the arrest was to take place, but that he purposefully allowed it to happen is a matter of speculation – although widely assumed to be true.

MY OPINIONS

I am always loathe to calling Britain a police state, and in fact many important features of a police state are missing from the picture. I also refuse to speculate on the content of ongoing police investigations. However, the fact that an investigation was allowed sets for our elected representatives a dangerous precedent. Even the Broon, as seen in my previous post, has smugly utilised leaks from civil servants.

All Green’s private case files and constituency data are now in the hands of the police, and any number of officers may view the contents throughout the investigation. Mr Green himself is now unable to continue the role he was elected to do because the police are being ridiculously intrusive – at the behest of the Labour Government in a thinly veiled attempt to smear the Conservatives, which seems to have backfired spectacularly!

The bare truth is, though, that Broon has not built for us a police state, instead he has cemented the solid foundations, which no successor will be able to destroy. The Labour Party long ago abandoned all pretence of democracy, and it is us who will pay the price in the decades to come!