(Incidentally, wouldn’t people called Davis normally choose another name than David for their son? Sounds like a bit of a piss-take, like Major Major in Catch-22. Actually, I’ve just remembered he was adopted, so the name David had possibly stuck to him before anyone realised that he would be adopted by people called Davis. Sorry.)
But what a tosser! If he wanted to throw down the gauntlet to the Government, surely he didn’t believe that holding an unnecessary by-election in a strongly Tory constituency would prove anything? That Labour would admit defeat on the 42-day issue if they lost the vote in a seat they couldn’t even win in 1997? And didn’t he see that all Labour would have to do was refuse to field a candidate to leave him standing there like a spare prick in a brothel?
Of course he realised that there would be a personal succès d’éstime for him, with loads of Lib Dem types and others who wouldn’t vote Tory in a thousand years praising him to the skies. Even some of the far Left blogs, the ones who hate NuLabor more than Hitler, necrotising fasciitis and the British packaging industry combined, have been having orgasms over his craggy visage.
Let’s look at this supposed hero of liberty. A principle he felt so strongly about that he was prepared to put his whole career on the line for it? Nah. He’d obviously been working bloody hard day and night on the issue, as was right and proper for a Shadow Home Secretary, and it’s given him tunnel vision, causing him to think that it’s the only game in town, despite the fact that a) whether an exception to normal procedures be granted for 28 or 42 days is hardly an issue of principle and b) the Government will have all hell getting it through the Lords anyway. Also, as David Aaronovitch has pointed out in today’s Times, Davis’ principled record on libertarian issues doesn’t really bear examination. Staunch defender of Clause 28, opponent of equality in age of consent; what have Moslem extremists got that gay people haven’t?
Anyway, I wish him a resounding victory over the windmills of Haltemprice and Howden, full of sound and fury, signifying – nothing.
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To be fair, he voted for 28 days because the alternative was 90. That said, the pass was sold...
I have written to DD and the other candidate offering them guest postings at The Exile - let's see what happens.
I will probably support DD on the principle that shagging Nu-Lab without the benefit of Vaseline to ease the passage is just a good in itself.
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