Brian Haw

[liadnan]

Though the Court of Appeal have now held that despite the appallingly shoddy drafting of the legislation preventing unauthorised protests in Parliament Square, the section does indeed apply to Brian Haw, for the moment he remains (unless things have developed further since last night's raid).

The response from the Police and Government seems pretty ridiculously pathetic - see here for last night's antics.

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

You're right - it is largely a pedantic point: voters who elected Labour or Conservative MP's did so largely based on their perceptions of the party leaders - much more so than those electing Independents.

And yes, I was being facetious, but if we throw around charges about the death of democracy and the loss of our government's legitimacy because a clapper disapears from a handbell, how will we define the difference between that and genuine totalitarianism? Outrage is cheap, but I still get annoyed when I see it piled higher than the circumstances warrant.