Arrested MP

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Oh dear, things must be bad for I find myself agreeing with Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary, again!

A Conservative MP (opposition) has been arrested for something like a breach of security, passing on info he shouldn't or the like. Naturally, there have been howls of protest from his colleagues with shouts of 'Stalinist' state and the like. Ms. Smith did not know about it beforehand and says investigations must take their course. She makes the point that no one is above the law.

I agree with her. If the policemen had beat him up in custody then that's another matter but they didn't. So the law must take its course. He may well be innocent but we shall just have to wait and see.

The independence of the judiciary and the legislature must be paramount. Just think of those places where it is not. Would you like to live there?

One other point about all this is that it is a man who has been arrested. If it had been a woman, no doubt Harriett Harman and the muppet, Hazel Blears would have been marching on the streets right now.