Johnny's Law

Sara Payne seems to have become, as the Dunblane parents once were, ungainsayable. Well, in the Dunblane case, the result was the disastrous, ridiculous and utterly pointless "handgun" legislation. We have been warned. And do we actually know that Sarah Payne was sexually assaulted at all?

What if the Police discovered that a single mother's new boyfriend were a convicted, entirely non-sexual murder, or a convicted drug dealer, or a convicted anything else, but not a convicted sex offender? What then?

Now that even Julie Bindel admits the existence of female child sex abusers (are single fathers to be offered access to their new girlfriends' criminal records?), then what use, as Bindel rightly asks, will the much-trumpeted "chemical castration" actually be?

And who is behind all of this? Why, none other than the mercifully departing John Reid. Reid bragged about directing the Police to arrest people in the middle of the night. He was a Communist Party activist deep into his adult life, well before the fall of the Soviet Union, and he has never expressed the slightest remorse. At Stirling University, when the Communist Party ran the Students' Union (with its large cash turnover), he was its enforcer, as he later was for Neil Kinnock, and as he then was for Tony Blair.

It's not looking good, is it?