WRITTEN ON July 11th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, What do we want?
Bob Geldof writing in the Telegraph, in support of the former Tory shadow Home Secretary. What next: David Davis singing backing vocals with some reformed punk band?
It’s an excellent article – passionate as ever, while the Nazigraph subs must have edited out all the profanities:
I was told David Davis was out on a limb on this one. Shamefully that is true. But it is the right limb to be out on. And it is a limb I am happy to join him on. It’s the same limb that William Wilberforce clambered out on to in his fight against slavery. It is the limb that justice, liberty and rights are perched upon.
This by-election is about that, nothing else. Not party, policy or personality. It is about Magna Carta, habeas corpus, the constitution – what Britain is, was and must remain.
Today East Yorkshire gets to speak for us all, on behalf of justice versus intolerance. To whistleblow against encroaching authority. To firewatch against unthinking power. To speak about an idea of liberty under law. To vote for an idea of a kind of life. The idea of Britain.
Tory, Lib Dem, Labour: who cares – clamber out on this limb with us, for it’s where we all belong. Turn out hugely and thank God that you are in a country that is still free to do so.
Liberty is always dangerous – but it’s the safest thing we have.
At Wednesday’s vote for passing the “Immigration (Biometric Registration) Regulations 2008”, the Tories didn’t turn up, Labour voted in favour, and Lib Dem’s against.
I’m wondering what I’ll do when the letter arrives requiring me to report in to be fingerprinted. Maybe I’ll tell the state to f*kk off. They can deport me, and I’ll try to get as many newspaper headlines decrying the scheme in the process.
What will you do when you get the letter requiring you to report in to be fingerprinted? Time to start planning now.