Blair's "terror laws" shot down in Parliament

[Bobby Hogg]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4422086.stm

Big story over here right now. Tony Blair has suffered his first defeat in the Commons since being elected Prime Minister in 1997.

I do think it is a good thing that police have not been given the power to detain people without charge for 90 days, however I dislike the tone and the manner in which the law was shot down. It was done to teach Tony Blair a lesson or to trip him up, not because these MPs believed it was right.

The majority of the country apparently believes these laws are necessary. I don't agree with the laws as I have said, but I also do not agree with MPs using their public mandate to make a point against the Prime Minister, rather than using it to vote for what the public wants.

 

[Leslie]

That's happening here too, over health care though. Not just to make a point, but to force an election. I lose what little respect I had for all of them with their stoopid little games.

 

[MrBishop]

Yeah...but a lot of people here don't want two-tiered health-care, Les.

 

[Leslie]

Here either. Then again, a lot of people do. I actually agree with the stance they took on it, it's the stoopid money and time wasting games around it that I take umbrage to.

 

[MrBishop]

Join the club.... politics is like tap dancing in a mine-field. Plenty of people that you can set off, and you have to go a circuotous route just to get to the other side.