lefties for Davis

I presume David Davis is up to something here, above and beyond what he is actually saying. I don’t really care. If this is a Cunning Tory Plot of some kind, then good for Cunning Tory Plotting. If anyone wishes to embarrass Mr Davis in his forthcoming struggle with himself before the baffled electors of Haltemprice and Howden by forming a Lefties for Davis group, then count me in. If I lived there, I’d vote for him on this with no problem at all, just as I’d have voted for Galloway in Bethnal Green in 2005. I’m such a tart, me.

It seems to me that the choice available over this is to outsmart yourself by trying to uncover the "real reasons" behind his resignation or take him at his word and push the issue. And whatever else Davis might have in mind, and whatever you think of his framing it as "fundamental British freedom" this is the issue.

But in truth perhaps 42 days is the one most salient example of the insidious, surreptitious and relentless erosion of fundamental British freedom.

And we will have shortly the most intrusive identity card system in the world. A CCTV camera for every 14 citizens, a DNA database bigger than any dictatorship has, with thousands of innocent children and millions of innocent citizens on it.

Comments

[Nick L]

As a fellow Warwickian, I'd like to say that this is the best thing that any Warwick graduate has ever done. As a bonus he's seems to have flumoxed Cameron and wiped that smug grin off of his face for five minutes.

Also, your description of New Labour as the Real British National Party seems to have come true, as evidenced by the skin crawling quotes on the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7450683.stm

[ejh]

Odd thing about New Labour, occurred to me just the other night when musing on their latest wheeze to make like harder for the unemployed. (Don't suppose it's remotely original but neither am I.) For a set of people who are supposedly attached to pragmatism and "what works", they don't actually make a lot of policy, do they? In fact in most areas they don't actually seem to have any policy at all, just a series of initiatives.

As far as being the best thing a Warwick graduate has ever done - how many times has David Davis won the European Cup?

[john b]

If I lived there, I’d vote for him on this with no problem at all, just as I’d have voted for Galloway in Bethnal Green in 2005. I’m such a tart, me.

Hmm. Speaking as a constituent of Mr G, who is the worst constituency MP in London, I'd prefer it had fewer people done the latter.

[ejh]

who is the worst constituency MP in London

I'd have thought there might be some competition for that title.

[Matthew]

I really think Davis should stand as an independent on a civil liberties ticket. Standing as the official Conservative candidate suggests a lack of seriousness, I'd say.

[jamie]

I'm going to try and get an interview with him and ask him about that.