Shock resignation is a wake-up call to the British people
David Davis’ resignation from his job as MP and Shadow Home Secretary yesterday, forcing a by-election in which he will stand again in protest over the issue of the 42 day detention of suspected terrorists, surprised everyone.
In two notoriously opportunistic and hard-nosed professions, politics and the media, in both of which personal convictions in the 21st Century are too often limited to expressing passionately-held beliefs over which restaurant serves the best caviare, it’s no wonder that we’ve since seen a plethora of career politicians on all sides, and political commentators, utterly incapable of understanding why Davis did what he did.
But nearly everyone who truly cares about what’s happening to our country can applaud Davis’ bold and brave move, and fully understand it. How many people constitute those who understand there is a war being waged against us by our own government is unclear, but Davis’ resignation certainly increases awareness. It is a wake-up call for the British people.
tags: 42 days, anti-terrorism, Big Brother, civil liberties, Conservatives, conviction, courage, David Davis, Labour, oppression, politics, state control, Tories
