"Emergency" Legislation (the worst kind) coming on Police Bail.

It looks as though the police will get their way as always and MPs will bend over backwards to reinforce an age old bending of the rules.

The Police (Detention and Bail) bill is due to be rushed through Parliament ASAP.

I've yet to look at it as I haven't seen a copy online, but rest assured it won't just re-establish the staus quo, I'm sure there will be an extension of Police powers over and above those they were (ab)using before the court decision last week. Its always the way that the Police draught a wish-list and it gets put on the statute books and what better time, when supposedly chaos reigns and MPs will do very little scrutiny of the bill and rubber stamp it because they need to be seen to support the Police and the political establishment.

The bill needs careful looking at and I implore bloggers everywhere to give it the scrutiny it deserves. After all this is about the restriction of people's liberty before being charged and if not carefully crafted, could have people harassed by the Police and be required by law to report to them for interrogation time and time again ad infinitum without any time limit and without any new evidence to answer to, which is tantamount to state-sponsored harassment. Its that point the judge was acting on last week.

I may be wrong, but the nature of the beast and previous form by the establishment says we need to be vigilant.

Thats the Police Told...

It seems a judge in a court has told the Police that they have to stop arresting people on spurious charges and then bailing them until they have sufficient evidence to actually press those charges.

Quite right too. Arrests should only be made when sufficient evidence of a crime has been gathered.

It should not throw the Police into crisis, as reports make out. The Police have been acting outside the law for decades and its about time they were brought back into line.

Next in line for reform should be the use of Police cautions where people are cajoled into accepting a caution when the police cannot gather sufficient evidence for a "proper" arrest and prosecution.

People are innocent until proven guilty.

Depopulation.

Well, there aren't enough jobs, too many people and the 65 years of peace we've had in Europe haven't brought about lasting prosperity.

So, what can be done? The only choice I think is to have a bloody good European war, like our grandparents did.

Greece are well along the way to having a ruck, everyone hates the Germans because they're doing so well, nobody like France because they're well... French. The Irish might not stay so neutral this time, possibly wanting to throw a kick or two in Belgium's direction, which should be easy as Belgium can't even organise a government. The Eastern European countries will run back to mother Russia, hopefully ending the glut of immigrants.

The bad news is Britain doesn't have the status it used to have, so we might have to forego our role as European saviour this time and I doubt America would be that bothered about Europe this time round. Bloody good job if you ask me, because over the last 65 years the countries we liberated in WW2 have been less than grateful. Let them fight it out amongst themselves this time. Although we might send in a brigade of "fighting chavs" to stir things up a bit. We could even get them to kick it off for us.