Comments on: Most Unlikely

By: Gavin Robinson

Gavin Robinson — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:36:50 +0000

Update: the song has been featured on the Today programme. "I wasn't expecting our first play on national radio to be on Radio 4 but I'm really not complaining".

By: Gavin Robinson

Gavin Robinson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:01:23 +0000

I think we’re in an impossible situation because we need a written constitution but can’t trust anyone in power to write it. Just look at the so-called Human Rights Act, which I think takes away more than it gives. The need to comply with the European Human Rights Convention could have been an opportunity for a new constitution but what we got instead was at best a hopeless mess.

By: Ted Vallance

Ted Vallance — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:30:01 +0000

Personally, I’d rather vote for Dickie Davis…but you are right, it is weird to see Shami Chakrabarti, Tony Benn, Simon Heffer and D Davis all lining up on the same side. My point really is that if you don’t have a proper written constitution, this does become a ‘how long is a piece of string question.’ As Davis admits on his new blog, it raises questions about his current support for detaining people for 28 days without charge (why isn’t that against ‘Magna Carta and Habeas Corpus’?)Of course, this doesn’t mean that he isn’t right to oppose the counter-terrorism bill, which is definitely a ‘bad thing’ and for more reasons than 42-day detention – see the letter signed by Lord Rea et al which went in the Guardian some weeks ago for the full horrors of this piece of legislation.