Tory Mp arrested for leaking sensitive information.

[CivicMan]

Has the government totally lost it?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7753557.stm

Seeming arrested and questioned for uncovering some unsavoury facts that the government would like kept quiet.

Very sinister overtones this........ this guy is a front bench MP. Very scary.

[anonymous-user]

He should've just put all the info onto his laptop and left it in Burger King

[playerone]

Early days but a very scary precedent. I am off to a fashion tinfoil hats for the whole family!

[grumbledoak]

Stalin shows his true colours. Worrying...

[*******]

Mandelson.

[grumbledoak]

******* said:

Mandelson.

[Pupp]

why 'sinister'?

Looks like the misfeasance alleged is on the part of an official and the MP is suspected of encouraging or commissioning that. Has always been a serious offence, probably the most serious you can commit in public life given it strikes at the seat of government. Do you think it acceptable in a democracy for civil servants to pursue their own agendas rather than the policies of the executive?

[randlemarcus]

Pupp said:

why 'sinister'?

Looks like the misfeasance alleged is on the part of an official and the MP is suspected of encouraging or commissioning that. Has always been a serious offence, probably the most serious you can commit in public life given it strikes at the seat of government. Do you think it acceptable in a democracy for civil servants to pursue their own agendas rather than the policies of the executive?

Absolutely acceptable. Personally, I'd rather the information was leaked to the Her Majesty's Opposition than the Yellow Press, and significantly rather it was leaked than not leaked at all.

I'd suggest though, that this is a case of "turbulent priest" than Mandelson going directly for the Shadow Immigration Minister.

[s3fella]

I am couting the days to the next election when we can stand up for ourselves and tell these clowns what we really think of them.

Edited by s3fella on Thursday 27th November 22:42

[Pupp]

anonymous said:

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Ahem.... Westland, ahem.... supergun, .... Zircon project... Arms to Iraq... Matrix Churchill

[elster]

The fact is too much rubbish is published.

Would rather a lot is kept secret. The general public are f**king morons, best they know most things really.

[Pupp]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

So, that's what's being reported so far. Let's wait and see what else has been occurring (if anything)

[Simpo Two]

I think the charge is the new offence of 'Not Agreeing With The Government'.


This lot really do need to be on the lamposts down Pall Mall soon.

[CobolMan]

s3fella said:

I am couting the days to the next election when we can stand up for ourselves and tell these clowns what we really think of them.

Edited by s3fella on Thursday 27th November 22:42

Assuming that by then we'll be able to vote.........

[Zod]

I was out for dinner and burning to post this, hence my (astonishingly quickly closed) repost.

Labour is beginning to show signs of being a paranoid dictatorship.

[Riley15/6]

anonymous said:

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And how many opposition party front bench spokesmen were arrested over these leaks?

How many parliamentary offices were searched?

And in those days we still had the right to protest!

[*******]

They're testing the water.

[DucatiGary]

s3fella said:

I am couting the days to the next election when we can stand up for ourselves and tell these clowns what we really think of them.

but why count the days, surely we can initiate an election without having to let the morons lose more and more

[Pupp]

anonymous said:

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No, I'm just illustrating the point that all British governments, regardless of colour, are prone to playing the national security card when it suits their purpose. While I'm at it, I'll point out the fact they can still do this without judicial intervention is largely due to the successful GCHQ challenge by Thatcher's govt to trades union membership that turned on the evidence of Marge's cabinet secretary Robert Armstrong who later proved himself to be less than 'credible' (shall we say) in Spycatcher

[Teppic]

Zod said:

Labour is beginning to show signs of being a paranoid dictatorship.

Beginning?!?

Edited by Teppic on Thursday 27th November 23:04