Footage of the police searching Damian Green's office

John Page

A non-event, a few seconds replayed over and over with a wordy commentary from Grieve.

Johnny Fiston-Hewes

This is a PR blunder by the Tories I reckon - its a pathetic video!! I can’t believe they have released this, what a joke!

I thought we’d have a juicy action-packed clip to get our teeth into but THIS! and a poorly delivered commentary from Dominic Grieve which was so boring I can remember nothing of it already!

It actually looks like hopeless party political opportunism, having a video camera hauled in.

The Definitive Polka Dot

Why were the faces of the police blurred out? Their behaviour was thuggish. Why protect the identity of thugs?

Jim

A good video and comment by Dominic Grieve. A very scary development. Why was the detective taking photographs of Damian Green's office? Why was someone not allowed to be present while they were doing the search? What did the police have to hide?

Anyone not grasping the truly horrific implications of what's going on here needs to read up on the history of Germany in the prelude to WW2.

These are deeply worrying times.

Johnny Fiston-Hewes

I think Dave's man could have been a bit more assertive!! If you're gna break one law you might as well break another!

BrianSJ

Makes the case for DD.
This is pathetic.

John

Common Purpose Fabians of the Yard doing the politicians’ bidding:

http://www.stopcp.com/cppolice.php

strapworld

Unlike the anti democratic first two comments, obviously from Browns Bunker (He must be locked inside it!! - Always hiding when Labour are in trouble!!)

For the third comment. The faces are blurred out, because they are anti terrorist police and the Conservatives are showing them the courtesy they did not show the MP!!

The video short that it is, does show a very arrogant police officer showing the MP the door, in effect, removing him. GET OUT in not so many words.

Arrogance. But also worrying. What could they have 'planted'? How many electronic bugs have they placed?

You may laugh. But all the accusations about a Police State are encapsulated in this little video.

LABOUR is NOT a Democratic Party anymore!

God help us all.

TGF UKIP

Why has no lawsuit benn lodged against the Met Gestapo. As I understand it, preventing an MP from fulfilling his parliamentary duties to his constituents is a criminal offence.

The Tory response to this outrage is, so far, as lame as we could expect from this Cameron "leadership."

TrevorsDen

I agree with strapworld.

The video is good for two reasons. That woman in the purple gloves is just pathetic. what is she afraid of catching?

And if I was in an MPs office and being manhandled by a policeman - I would sue and or, damn the consequences, I would punch the bar-steward on the nose.

What we are witnessing is a violation of our democracy.

NIcholas

I see that the two Labour blog-monitoring stooges got in first as usual. The cod Toff name is hilarious. Surprised they both didn't claim to be lifelong Tory voters.

Ruairidh

crap video

I'm getting really bored of this story. I realise I'm in a minority of coffeehousers but I think this is a non-event. MPs are not above the law and if an allegation has been made the police have a duty to follow it. All this Mugabe / Stalin hyperbole is completely juvenile.

On the subject of 'terror' police being used - people are displaying their ignorance with pride on this issue. These guys are Special Branch, SB have CT duties but they also investigate a host of other stuff. Calling them terror police is spinning at it's worst.

salieri

TGF: unfair.

There will be plenty of time for fulminations from Cameron, and what's left of the House of Commons, when no charges have been brought and Plod leaks (as it eventually will) who knew what and when. It would be utterly irresponsible to shout the House down until it is clear that there was never any evidence of crime. And at the same time DG can sue fo false arrest - if he cares to.

May I just ask, though, what crime - "preventing an MP from fulfilling his duties" - you are referring to? It can't be a statutory offence since there is no Act passed by Parliament requiring an MP to do his/her duties, still less define wehat these might be. It isn't a common-law offence either, since no-one has ever thought of 'preventing' them before.

But if there were such an offence, might not Grey Gordon and Gorbals Mick have committed it long since?

David Bouvier

salieri - you need to look up contempt of parliament and sessional orders.

biggestaspidistra

This is powerful and chilling propaganda for the tories and against the government. Interesting to see from a few posts here and identical posts elsewhere on the web that the backlash has begun, but it wont wash. Jacqui Smith and the labour party have offended so deeply in this matter they will rue the hour.

Tom Paine

TrevorsDen,
Perhaps she's not so fearful of catching something so much as leaving something behind, her fingerprints on a bug for example?

Professor Paul Goddard

Claiming that the leaks were "against national security" is typical British socialist behaviour. Are these the same people who hounded Kelly to his death?
Back in the 1970s I remember the DHSS putting a D notice on Junior Doctors' pay because it was embarrassing to the Labour Government of the day. On that occasion they claimed the information was "against national security".
I refer to this in my book "The history of medicine, money and politics: Riding the rollercoaster of state medicine".