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Swan_Knight
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« on: 14:39:23, 13-06-2008 »
He's going to fight a by-election in his (safe-ish) North Yorkshire seat, to highlight the threat posed to personal liberty by Gordon Brown's 42-day terror proposals. 

Kelvin McKenzie (ex-editor) of the Sun - is said to be '90% certain' to stand against him.

I can't decide whether Davis is brave or just stupid - or, possibly, a combination of both.

A novel idea, though, for a Tory to stand as the champion of freedom and liberty against the dark and malign forces of 'security'.   Wink
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« Reply #1 on: 14:51:08, 13-06-2008 »
Quote from: Swan_Knight on 14:39:23, 13-06-2008
A novel idea, though, for a Tory to stand as the champion of freedom and liberty against the dark and malign forces of 'security'.   Wink

Not unheard of though - it was Churchill's govt that repealed ID cards after WWII.

There's more on Davis in the "Do we have any news today" thread.
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« Reply #2 on: 15:04:00, 13-06-2008 »
The story of the end of wartime ID cards can be found here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3129302.stm

It suggests that the wartime system, although generally tolerated (it was linked to the rationing system, which caused a lot more angst), was expensive, bureaucratic, and didn't work.

In stark contrast to what is being suggested now, of course.
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