4 David Davis 4 Freedom: Question Time

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Thursday, 19 June 2008

+++ David Davis on Question time BBC1 tonight 10:35pm +++

If your interested .. I'll probably add comments as it goes on live.

Final notes

Wrapping it all up

This blog was created on one of those spur of the moment impulses. At the time that David Davis announced his shock resignations from the then shadow cabinet and as an MP the establishment did all it could to present play the man and duck the issue. Pundits for TV and newspapers hinted it was part of his ego, Labour tried to call it a stunt, some darker and hurtful insinuations were made by senior Labour figures which do not deserve repetition here. What was clear is that the establishment did not like such direct appeals to the people, who could not be trusted to 'understand'. ( In fairness the leadership of both the Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties did offer their support, but there were plenty of people available to brief against a former colleague when the BBC went looking for them.)

But the public thought differently, and so did I. I asked a few other bloggers if they would add posts and I list one from each of them here, but I wanted to place this at the side of the blog - to leave the last word to David Davis on the speech the BBC 'somehow' failed to broadcast.

Terrorism -vs- Freedom : Tom Paine
Gordon Brown's take on liberty and security: Letters from a Tory
Do opponents of civil liberties (such as ACPO's Ken Jones) have the guts to debate David Davis? : The Wilted Rose
Averting the end of freedom : Sam Tarrin
Campaigning in Haltemprice and Howden: Andrew Allison
Fear leads to cowardice then servitude, or heroism and freedom : Man in a Shed

Its time to wrap it all up. I'm not sure what use will be made of all the masses of articles and posts bloggers leave every day, but these posts are left for someone else to do with what they want.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance - Thomas Jefferson. A man who inherited the great English tradition of freedom and a constrained state and set about helping to create one of the greatest free countries the world has ever seen.

MiaS 20 July 2008.

4 David Davis 4 Freedom

Thursday, 19 June 2008

+++ David Davis on Question time BBC1 tonight 10:35pm +++

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