Then and Now

Speaker Authorised Police Raid on Parliament - Douglas Carswell MP
RBS Worst Rights Flop Ever - FT Alphaville
RBS Nationalised, Government Takes 57% Stake - Indy
PFI Catch 22, Government Shifts Risk to Itself - Dizzy

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2008

Then and Now

In May 1985, a youthful opposition politician got hold of a leaked confidential government review proposing to encourage the unemployed to get jobs by reducing their dole. This, he raged, was " a raid on the poor".

Gordon was not arrested. Ironically it is also his government's policy now.

Hat-tip : London Evening Standard

Arrest Osborne Next

Surely the logic of the government's position means that George Osborne should be arrested. In the PBR debate he all but confessed to being in receipt of leaks when he said "we know" about government plans to push VAT up to 20%. He has had the jump on the Treasury brief more than once, he is clearly conspiring with a mole public official. Seize him...

UPDATE : What does Robert Peston think of those who conspire with public officials to leak sensitive information? Does it only matter when it hinders rather than helps the regime?

Clunking Fists Strike Opponents

Guido can't remember anything like this happening in his lifetime. This was not a national security issue. Counter terrorist police arresting opposition politicians?

UPDATE : David Davis on the Today show made the same point, that locking up opposition MPs for 9 hours is a tactic "reminiscent of Robert Mugabe", Tim Montgomerie doesn't approve of the comparison.