Like many others, I am concerned about the apparent attempt to criminalise Damien Green for doing what opposition MPs, including Sir Winston Churchill and Gordon Brown, have done for many decades - namely receive information from civil servants that the government does not want released but which the MP thinks is in the public interest.

What makes it even more worrying is that most members of the government, particularly Lord Mandelson, have not seen how this sets Britain on the path to becoming a lesser democracy comparable with, say, Malaysia where some years ago the leader of the opposition was imprisoned on trumped up charges and the government tried to turn both the police and the judiciary into weapons of party warfare.

Again, like others, I offer a link to Gordon Brown smirking with pride at having done what Damien Green, according to what we know so far, has done:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QIrweIqqsOc

Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Politics

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