Regular readers might recall that I was rather concerned at Lord West’s appointment as Security Minister. Defence, you could understand. But Security?
However, I have changed my mind on this one. We all know that he isn’t in favour of banging people up for months on end without so much as charging them, whatever he might have been forced to say this morning (and congratulations to the spectacularly incompetent David Cameron for failing to mention it at PMQs). The Armed Forces swear and owe allegiance, not to the government of the day, but to the Queen, i.e., to our permanent constitution of liberties under the Crown rather than citizens’ obligations to the State. Old Labour and the Old Tories understood this, and shared it.
But New Labour and the New Tories don’t. They simply have to go, in order to be replaced with something better. If that means that the sworn defenders of our liberties have to act in order to create the situation in which those in any case basically defunct parties can be replaced, then so be it.
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