Brown’s security strategy is the worst of all worlds

john problem

One never imagined that, if Hitler and company. had invaded this treasured isle, he would have found Britons ready and able to help his Gestapo in their daily round. Until now, It's frightening how, seemingly, any council worker will turn into an Obersturmbahnfuhrer overnight if so asked by our government.

Niall

All valid points Mr. Davis but they would have been better received from a Shadow Home Secretary rather than the Eddie the Eagle of backbenchers.

Ray

DD perfectly sums up this Government's whole crime-fighting strategy: criminalise the law-abiding majority whilst leaving the criminal minority free to do their nefarious deeds in peace.

Kevyn Bodman

All valid points Mr. Davis and they are better highlighted by your stand in this by-election than they would have been otherwise.

Dwight Vandryver

One is reminded of the BBC's Question Time programme immediately after the 7/7 bombings when a woman in the audience shouted at the panel: "How will you protect my babies?!". How indeed, and the government in power was expected to react positively. Failure to do so would have certainly attracted negative media coverage. Knife crime is the present scourge and dangerous and drunk driving came before that. Then there are the daily health scares ranging from mobile phones and alcohol to nuclear waste and passive smoking, with a good dose of carbohydrates and saturated fats thrown in along the way. Life is a risk, but the public do not acknowledge the fact. Instead, they look to the Nanny State to save them from such dangers, although statistically the risks involved are infinitesimally small compared to jumping in the car or walking down stairs. People may dislike the idea of the surveillance society. They may disapprove of ID cards and detention without charge. But when the argument is put that if only one innocent life could be saved by these measures, most people would agree to them. In today's society, civil liberty is as outmoded as nuclear disarmament. Paranoia over personal safety is the "in" thing.

Alun Reynolds

Well said Mr Davis. Naill I agree to a degree, but think that what David has achieved by doing what he has done is to make the question more stark. Sort of made it stand out from the parliamentary noise.

My worry though is that the leftist media (particlarly the BBC) are deliberately starving this debate of oxygen.

They don't want the Government undermined as they subscribe to the leftist totalitarian agenda.

But whatever happens David Davis has restored my belief that someone in the policital arena really cares about the people, not their job. For that I am grateful, whether or not anything changes.

Pauline

The continued erosion of civil liberties and the cancerous corrosion of democracy are surely safe in this governments hands. Immutably committed to preserving its core values of centralisation and ever tighter control, it ridicules any possibility of there being another way: With a complacent and compliant society why should they even give lip service to, say, the ridiculous notion of freedom with responsibility. As for that David Davis they knew just how to deal with him. If they had got away with ignoring their promise to grant a referendum on the constitution of the EU why on earth would they put up a candidate to oppose that whippersnapper? So not only centralising and controlling but consistent with it! Do you know I think we've got the government we deserve.

Yosemite Sam

Well, Britons, there's only one way to address all of this: get back yer guns and get a rope!