Over-mighty

An Opposition spokesman arrested and held for nine hours (on a law so obscure it might as well relate to the Ship Money Tax). Opposition offices "turned over". Opposition politicians given the same processing treatment meted out to "terrorists".

I was surprised at how angry I became when I talked about this earlier today.

This is the sort of thing that happens in Zimbabwe.

Heads must roll, and at a senior level.

And listening to the news earlier, the Foreign Secretary is "hinting" that British forces in Afghanistan will be increased to please the newly-elected American president. Is David Miliband so shameless that he would sell the lives of British personnel for a few months strutting the world stage in the company of a foreign politician? The war in Afghanistan is unwinnable, has no mandate in a British election, and was in any case originally "sold" by John Reid as being a conflict in which "not one shot will be fired in anger".

This government has become over-mighty.

Update

Above: front page of today's Daily Mail.

Above: leading editorial in today's Guardian (just readable if you click on the image to enlarge it).

Heads must roll, and at a senior level.

And if it turns out that some top civil servant has decided to intimidate a Member of Parliament, not only should he be sacked, but his knighthood taken away.