I've got a theory...

[rich_jacko]

...it could be bunnies that the triviality of an LJ post is roughly proportional to the number of comments it will get.

So when I post about the last couple of minutes of a TV programme, I get 35 comments (and counting). This post is about something rather more important, so I suspect it will get far fewer comments ;o)

Whatever else you may think about the Tories' policies; or whether forcing a by-election is meaningless, money-wasting grandstanding or not; David Davis's speech yesterday was a rather magnificent condemnation of this government's relentless attack on our civil liberties.

I'd be interested to know what my normally anti-Tory, pro-civil liberties friends made of it.

- Video link
- Full transcript

Comments

[rich-jacko.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why you should be surprised it was a Conservative making a stand on this.

If you boil the two main parties down to the basics, Labour are typically the ones who are all about state interference (taxing and spending, nationalisation, regulation, the nanny state); whereas the Tories are about minimising such things (tax cuts, privatisation, free market economics, letting people/businesses sink or swim).

What'll happen is that Europe will knock this issue off the headlines for a while. Should be an interesting by-election though...