Shadow Immigration Secretary arrested under Official Secrets Act

Just more proof that the police and government are control freaks and acting more and more like the nazi's every day.

I cant wait to see browns face when they loose the next election massively! ( it wont be HIS fault of course... he will blame everyone but himself ).
 
scorza said:
Tricky subject this - 1 and 2 are fair game imo, 3 and 4 are political issues and for the civil servant to leak those I would have to suspect him of being politically motivated, which civil servants are not supposed to be. Governments cannot be effective if civil servants are going around leaking confidential information - ok, it's morally justifiable if the information involves the government doing something wrong, such as employing illegal immigrants, but not letters from the Home Secretary to the PM about current affairs.

One thought though - if this Conservative MP genuinely thought he was doing his job, why did he pass on the information to the press silently? He could have asked questions in parliament based on information he'd received - why the cloak and dagger routine?
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That thought had also crossed my mind. He could easily have stood up in Parliament and talked of his concerns over the issues but chose to leak it to the media. This tends to indicate that he knew it was illegal to do this but went ahead as it was embarrasing to the other political party.

You cannot choose what laws you want to obey. It has nothing to do with Nazi or Stalinesque culture. People in those situations tended to be get a bullet in the back of the head whereas in this country he would probably be suspended from the House for a couple of days.
 
I am a serving cop yet the actions by the Met have baffled me to say the least although they are privvy to more information than I am.

The Government plead they knew nothing about it but the original complaint came from the Home Office as I recall. There's a rabbot away somewhere.
 
I heard he was arrested by 9 (9!) anti-terror officers. And a senior member of the Home Office apparently asked the police to investigate...but yet his boss, the Home Secretary is playing dumb. I can't see the police arresting an MP in this way without consulting the Home Secretary or at least informing her that this was what they were going to do.

Gordon Brown was famous for leaking Treasury information when he was shadow chancellor. As we have no statute of limitations and the prime minister does not have immunity from prosecution can we arrest him...ASAP?
 
Something stinks to high heaven in this case and I cannot believe for a minute that this arrest occurred without the knowledge of the our esteemed 'Government' ... hopefully another nail in the coffin of our Home Secretary, a woman so inept she shouldn't be allowed to bake buns for her children in case she sets fire to the kitchen :mad:

Maybe I would, being a hater of all things Labour, but I see the shadowy hands of their dynamic duo Mandelson and the Boy Wonder Campbell all over this - neither can you rule out a final, gleeful two-fingered salute to the Conservative Party from Ian Blair, now he's lost his job as Labour's pet copper.

Given that the Home Office website, as of this morning, lists the threat level to the UK as 'severe - an attack is highly likely', I would have thought that the nine(!) counter-terrorism officers who made the arrest would have had matters more closely related to national security to attend to. Unless of course, the phrase 'national security' now includes propping up a useless, lame-duck ruling regime ...

Speaking of ZaNu Labour, found this posted on another site and given the events of the last few days and months, it's increasingly apt:

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A case of 'many a truth spoken in jest' ...
 
Adnams Drinker said:
Maybe I would, being a hater of all things Labour, but I see the shadowy hands of their dynamic duo Mandelson and the Boy Wonder Campbell all over this
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Those two are far too politically savvy to allow something like this to happen, because they know it would look like a polical act. They would be far more likely to come up with a plan to embarrass the MP concerned.


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