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The point is Sid, it is not just Tories who are outraged. Below is a sample of extract from commentators, mostly from the left plus a policeman.
Henry Porter (The Guardian) ""No action by the authorities could have better revealed the decay in the chassis of parliamentary democracy. It captures everything - the seeming politicisation of the police, the unprincipled brass neck of the home secretary, the degradation and failure of the parliamentary authorities and the growing confusion in Labour between the roles of the government and state.""
James Forsyth (Spectator) "If what Damian Green did was illegal, opposition politicians have been committing illegal acts for as long as anyone can remember. (Even if the leaks were being encouraged then that is hardly new). The power of the state is such that the benefit of the doubt should go to the opposition in these matters....""
Jackie Ashley (The Guardian) ""You can't separate politics from policing, and you never have been able to: political judgments are so often behind what the police do. In this case, it is simply risible to push off the responsibility for the invasion of Green's home and offices by anti-terrorist officers on to the police and nameless "officials".
Norman Baxter, ex police chief, (The Mail) ""make no mistake, the arrest of Damian Green and the search of his home and offices as a result of an investigation into an alleged offence of 'conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office' will have a profound impact on our democratic freedoms.""
The last word to Tony Benn, ex Labour Minister (BBC). "I may sound strangely medieval, but once the police can interfere with Parliament, I tell you, you are into a police state.""
Does that not get accross to you the seriousness of what has happened. If you claim to be a supporter of democracy then how can you possibly dismiss so lightly what has happened. I cannot remember an issue that has brought together, as one, figures as diverse as those quoted just in this post.
