So,let me get this straight. Over 70% of the british population agree with the increase in detention to 42 days. Then why did our elected MPs, who are supposed to represent their constituents, decide that their own selfish interests come before their voters and voted against this measure.
I though this was a democratic country. Don't make me laugh. It appears to me as though we are represented by petty dictators who grab as much of the expenses they can lay their hands on and are keen to promote their self-interests, refusing to listen to the voters who put them there in the first place.
Just look at the debate on knife crime the other day. This is something that is of great concern to most of the population yet how many of our MPs could be bothered to turn up? Around 20.
Davis - A Principled Fool
June 12, 2008
It was one of those "what???" moments - but, literally, only for a moment.
David Davis, would-be Tory grandee, shadow Home Secretary, single-parented council estate boy turned strict right-winger, and self-styled former SAS hardman(...