Friday Special Feature

(Updated with tags and more detail)

I have decided to bring my Friday special feature back from hiatus. Today, instead of pointing out an odious or ridiculous statement, I am featuring a good speech, the recent resignation speech of Mr. David Davis, former shadow home secretary. (As an American, I am baffled by the idea of a shadow cabinet, but when in Rome…) Mr. Davis, and many members of the British Conservative Party unsuccessfully (The bill passed by nine votes, because of included pork (Don’t know if this is a British term as well…) resisted Gordon Brown, the current Prime Minister, and his Labour Party in a vote over whether the Government of the UK could hold terrorism suspects for 42 days with out charging them. (I suppose that this is better than the forever claimed by the Bush administration) Mr. Davis also mentioned the proliferation of databases and security cameras in the UK. Unlike the American Republican Party (The rough American equivalent of the Conservatives) the UK Conservatives, and Mr Davis especially seem to feel that it is important to conserve the liberties of their constituents. (I think that it would make an interesting study about the factors that made the British Labour Party (the more liberal party) become the adovocates of a national security state in the UK, while the center-right Republican Party took on this role in the US) Mr. Davis, who is running for the seat that he resigned from (On a platform of restoring liberties) will be opposed by a Rupert Murdoch henchman.

coverage by the BBC