With the Labour Party losing the plot, it’s reassuring to see the
Tories holding true to the principles of liberal democracy. On Wednesday, Conservative MEP David Campbell Bannerman tweeted the Telegraph’s splash, ‘Jihadists should be prosecuted for treason’. By way of comment, he added:
‘It is about time we brought the Treason Act up to date and made it apply to those seeking to destroy or undermine the British state. That means extreme jihadis. It also means those in future actively working undemocratically against U.K. through extreme EU loyalty.’
Oh. We might ask what would constitute ‘working undemocratically against [the] UK’, or what ‘actively’ doing so would look like, or what would represent ‘extreme EU loyalty’. Or we might ask why Campbell Bannerman has still not deleted his tweet despite it being positively deranged.
Challenged on his proposal, he doubled-down. Gavin Esler, chancellor of the university of Kent, called
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