Tories filmed the raid in Parliament
They wont confirm it officially, but it's there, I'm told. Any footage of the police in an MPs' office is likely to put yet more pressure on the Speaker and Seargant at Arms to justify why he allowed them in first place.
Just remember this, Prime Minister Mandleson.......What goes round, comes round.
Posted by: Whosoldthegold | 28 Nov 2008 13:28:17
Just remember this, Prime Minister Mandleson.......What goes round, comes round.
Posted by: Whosoldthegold | 28 Nov 2008 13:28:41
police state?
Posted by: chris burley | 28 Nov 2008 13:31:45
A total outrage and a travesty of our democracy. God help us all.
Posted by: james | 28 Nov 2008 14:39:47
Last night saw the final nail in the coffin.
After all the other attacks on our rights, freedoms and civil liberties - CCTV, ID Cards, the Database State, unprecedented communications monitoring - the Brown Regime have sunk to using a politicised Police force to repress legitimate political Opposition.
Yesterday saw the death of British Freedom, aged 797 years, following an eleven-year battle against NewLabour Cancer.
Obituary at http://tinyurl.com/6z2eeh
Enough, surely, is enough?
Dungeekin
Posted by: Dungeekin | 28 Nov 2008 14:45:18
Stinks of a Tory Sting. Too well organised. Osborne on QT fully prepared with Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Tories at end of prog. No govt response as they didnt know. Dimbleby Tory stooge, if he knew about this before....Disgraceful abuse of the BBC.
Posted by: hookie | 28 Nov 2008 15:37:08
Hookie - thats a new one !!!!! The BBC is nothing if not a Labour propoganda channel. If they covered this story with any balance, it must mean it was too much even for them to lie about it !!
Posted by: VS | 28 Nov 2008 17:26:29
If they did film it then good for them. Nowadays it requires only a decent little camera to do so - and a cool head!
Posted by: Eveleigh Moore-Dutton | 28 Nov 2008 18:30:25
Surely if Damian Green has committed an offence under this dubious peice of legislation, then the government in their act to withhold the alleged leeked information from the public are also guilty of the same offences.
In the interest of natural justice, laws must apply to everyone and not be used to silence a chosen few.
The history in the use of this legislation demonstrates the erosion of natural justice in this country. How jealous of Mugabe Brown must be.
Will the person who made the video of the raid in parliment be arrested?
Posted by: RODEST | 28 Nov 2008 18:34:37
How many "final nails in the coffin" must I bear? This government has gone way beyond the pale and must be held to account. To use one of their own favourite phrases: they must do 'the right thing, right now' and resign.
Posted by: Franklie Cheep | 28 Nov 2008 20:05:54
Hookie - Green was arrested at 2pm; QT ended after 11pm. The reason Osborne had a statement ready is because he had known for several hours. The reason Alexander didn't know is because he doesn't know anything anyway.
Posted by: David (One of many) | 28 Nov 2008 23:30:45
There are no privacy laws in English Laws; apart from perhaps trespassing, harassment, breaking professional confidentiality or breaking secrets under the Official Secrets Act.
Information received by a Shadow Minister should be revealed, especially in relation to his or her areas of expertise and on ‘grounds of public interests’ (as the media often do by invading privacy on these grounds to avoid prosecution). Otherwise what is the use of a HMG's opposition? Abusing office? ‘How long is a piece of string’? This investigation is a waste of taxpayers’ money and a waste of time!
I also believe that no one can be charged with theft of information (in case law) per se, except in the course of the commission of various crimes (like burglary, trespass, deception, corruption etc). Of course MPs must follow their own parliamentary rules and conventions, like members of any club do but this is not a criminal offence.
Posted by: Peter Chuah, Birmingham | 29 Nov 2008 10:34:30
I would say lets protest outside parliment, but you need police permission to do that.
Remeber, this same government wants us all on an 'id card scheme' that is worse than any democracies and is more like Chinas.
It is time to get our civil liberties back before they are gone forever.
Posted by: Simone | 29 Nov 2008 10:57:39
Brown is mentally unstable. This opinion comes from a psychiatric nurse, with 30 years' experience, after watching a lengthy video of our unelected PM speaking a year ago. We have a madman in charge. The Queen HAS to dissolve Parliament.
Posted by: Les | 29 Nov 2008 11:24:35
Brown is mentally unstable. This opinion comes from a psychiatric nurse, with 30 years' experience, after watching a lengthy video of our unelected PM speaking a year ago. We have a madman in charge. The Queen HAS to dissolve Parliament.
Posted by: Les | 29 Nov 2008 11:26:13
In the Adam Boulton’s interview at Sky News with Gordon Brown, stated regarding the top rate of income tax hike that he hopes it might NOT even be necessary to introduce it.
http://blogs.news.sky.com/boultonandco/Post:6f7134b6-5679-49c0-9d6a-0fc2f2797899#comment
GB is making his policies ‘on the hoof’ like his chancellor Darling was deceptively making his policy ‘on the hoof’. What the recent PBR proposals not worth the paper they are written on and should be taken with a ‘pinch of salt’, as well as being deceptively misleading?
Osbourne pointed out in another interview at Sky News a few days ago that under present proposals in PBR on taxation increases in the future will affect those earning over £19,000pa. However when Darling was interviewed on Sky News on the same day, he immediately insisted he would be CHANGING (?) his policy in the FUTURE (i.e. several years time?) so that people earning £40,000 pa and below will not pay more taxes under the PRESENT PBR proposals.
Posted by: Peter Chuah, Birmingham | 29 Nov 2008 11:50:15
What any NULABS say now will be meaningless because very soon they will all be chewing the cud in the fields of the political wilderness.
Posted by: nimrod | 29 Nov 2008 17:20:55
Is there any more room left in nulabs coffin for another nail?
Posted by: ant | 29 Nov 2008 17:28:24
According to
http://timesonline.typepad.com/politics/2008/11/damian-green--.html
Damian Green’s arrest was made on suspicion he was "aiding and abetting, counselling or procuring misconduct in a public office". What aiding and abetting, what misconduct in the House of Commons? Should not the Speaker and Parliamentary Privileges Committee decide on this first? Which MP did not defend the cause they believe in, unless they are puppets in a dictatorship? Is this treason, remembering the actual the issues in question?
This sounds like the present incumbent Labour HMG’s conspiracy & spin against the Conservative before calling a general election in a few months time – i.e. before ‘digging a bigger hole’ for themselves. Those who approve such an arrest of the Shadow Minister on such trump up charges should be held to account - including the Speaker, those Ministers et al who 'aid & abet, counsel or procure misconduct’ to secure the arrest, as well as using any relevant Cam recordings, witnesses, documentation, etc.
Posted by: Peter Chuah, Birmingham | 30 Nov 2008 06:18:09
Who made the complaint to the Police about Green in the first place? No complaint, no investigation .
Posted by: Louise Richardson | 30 Nov 2008 08:59:57
Either the Tories got footage of the raid secretly, or there is at least one courtesy still extended to parliament not available to members of the public. Can you imagine what would happen if your family or office staff tried to film your arrest or search?
Posted by: guy | 30 Nov 2008 10:47:58