Labour kills Parliamentary Privilege

clipped from www.news.com.au Tories fuming after MP arrested THE Conservative Party reacted with anger today after its immigration spokesman was arrested for allegedly leaking Home Office documents. Damian Green was arrested by London police at his home in Kent yesterday and questioned for nine hours. His offices were also searched. The Metropolitan Police said they acted after receiving a complaint from the Cabinet Office – the department charged with enforcing the rules governing the conduct of all government employees and ministers.

In 1938 Duncan Sandys asked questions in the House of Commons on matters of national security. He was subsequently approached by two unidentified men, presumably representing the secret services, and threatened with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. Sandys reported the matter to the Committee of Privileges who held that the disclosures of Parliament were not subject to the legislation though an MP could be disciplined by the House.
I have just witness one of the most pathetic government defences of what I perceive an illegal act, the arrest and detention of an MP doing his duty.
Having endured an MP whose only real concern has been homosexual rights, the full scope of responsibility is alien to him, although he is now responsible for Veteran Matters (I nearly said affairs but the double take on that expression is not funny).
Since 1979 we have witnessed an appalling death of democracy; regulations and laws have been passed with Labour denying the most basic and sensible scrutiny of the passage of some heinous legislation, and we rely - thankfully- to the fuddy duddies in the Lords and thanks to Dog we have such a worthy second chamber.
So Secretary Spliff, if you do not know what is going on under your scrutiny, resign. Do not tell us that it is a wholly Police matter because the invasion of Parliament by YOUR police is an act of aggression against the Nation.