Thank God some MPs still have some sense/more than one braincell...
Yes, this is the promised political rant - and the time has been distorted even further [given the time it took me to write the last entry + general procrastination/developing addiction to TheFacebook...]
HOORAY for TB's defeat... He won't resign even now (not even after the disaster over Blunkett etc...), of course, but he damn better should. I still say it's odds-on that he'll be gone around March/the next Budget!
I mean, surely he HAS to now that his judgment is shown to be completely lacking!? I mean, not only does he bring Blunkett back only to lose him again, but also decides to 'abandon the idea of cross-party consensus' (see here, paragraph by photo with Brown, if you don't believe me...). And what for - not the [ridiculously stupid] measure of inciting religious hatred, which he almost lost on last week - the detention measure, which they posponed the vote on because they feared they'd be defeated!
Ok, so his reasoning may've been simple - "you're either with the police or against them in the fight against terrorism" (sound familiar? see report on PMQs). But it's a POLITICIAN'S JOB, to BALANCE the police's demands with the people's basic rights, especially rights as fundamental to the British constitution as the writ of Habeas Corpus!!! In that light, the proposal 28 days seems fairly acceptable - not 'made up without any justification', as he later claimed. Just shows, really, that Bush's one-braincell-itis is highly contagious, doesn't it? What a thing to be remembered by...
In other news, I thought this was interesting on the Tory contest, as well as the 'latest news', most importantly on briefs and on women's votes...
And globally, beside the Chinese President's state visit to London, Azerbaijan seems to be heading towards some sort of Orange-esque revolution. Not that it'll succeed; but if I'm proven wrong and it does, this may have HUGE implications for Russia, which goes to the polls in the next year or so... as far as I remeber!
HOORAY for TB's defeat... He won't resign even now (not even after the disaster over Blunkett etc...), of course, but he damn better should. I still say it's odds-on that he'll be gone around March/the next Budget!
I mean, surely he HAS to now that his judgment is shown to be completely lacking!? I mean, not only does he bring Blunkett back only to lose him again, but also decides to 'abandon the idea of cross-party consensus' (see here, paragraph by photo with Brown, if you don't believe me...). And what for - not the [ridiculously stupid] measure of inciting religious hatred, which he almost lost on last week - the detention measure, which they posponed the vote on because they feared they'd be defeated!
Ok, so his reasoning may've been simple - "you're either with the police or against them in the fight against terrorism" (sound familiar? see report on PMQs). But it's a POLITICIAN'S JOB, to BALANCE the police's demands with the people's basic rights, especially rights as fundamental to the British constitution as the writ of Habeas Corpus!!! In that light, the proposal 28 days seems fairly acceptable - not 'made up without any justification', as he later claimed. Just shows, really, that Bush's one-braincell-itis is highly contagious, doesn't it? What a thing to be remembered by...
In other news, I thought this was interesting on the Tory contest, as well as the 'latest news', most importantly on briefs and on women's votes...
And globally, beside the Chinese President's state visit to London, Azerbaijan seems to be heading towards some sort of Orange-esque revolution. Not that it'll succeed; but if I'm proven wrong and it does, this may have HUGE implications for Russia, which goes to the polls in the next year or so... as far as I remeber!