Playing politics, but the ends justify the means

I spoke earlier about the hapless political manouevering of Gordon Brown and his advisers.  Reluctantly I have to applaud the oh-so intelligent reaction of David Davis.  His motivation is clearly to undermine and destabilise the Government further, but the outcome will hopefully be the end of the misbegotten 42-day detention plan and possibly Brown himself.  And he’s putting the boot into ‘Call Me Dave’ at the same time.  It’s about time he took a hit.

The Lib Dem decision not to oppose the Tory candidate at the resultant Haltemprice and Howden by-election also increases my suspicion that in a hung Parliament (and that’s a long-shot at best) they’d go blue.

Harping back to a recurrent theme on this blog, Labour have to accept they’re losing the next election and start trying to do the right thing rather than the populist thing.  They should legislate with the freedom that a relegated team plays football.

~ by theraffishdandy on 12 June, 2008.