The UK Really Is A Police State
DAMIAN Green is arrested - well, if you arrest the Opposition, you’re bound to win an election.
The civil servant at the heart of a Whitehall leak investigation was in hiding last night as a political storm raged over the arrest of the Tory frontbencher Damian Green.
Hiding from whom? (Image Beau Bo D’Or Website)
The 26-year-old civil servant was detained at his home in Middlesex at 6am on November 19. The assistant private secretary, who has been suspended from his job, is being looked after by the Home Office at a secret location because it owes him a “duty of care”, officials said.
So the leaker has been arrested, released and then taken under the wing of the Home Office. There is no escape form Uncle Go-rdon.
Posted: 29th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Politicians Comments (5) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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February 24th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
One Housing Estate was covered by two electoral wards.
The electoral registers showb that BOTH wards for this one
housing estate have the same identical errors and others
have similar errors in voters personal registry numbers. The
electoral register error number patterns continue into the 1960’s
and 1970’s and probably into the 1980’s and 1990’s. (in 1958 even
the local cemetery got an elector registration number).
get the picture ? It’s always been there, but It’s never been published.
November 30th, 2008 at 10:21 am
And according to the Times, Galley is alleged to have told police that Green “induced” him to leak the documents; if that is so then all becomes slightly less murky.
So, who do we believe?
The pol or the job-seeker?
Not exactly a sparkling choice, is it?
A shame Damien Green didn’t record all of the conversations…
November 30th, 2008 at 9:39 am
and arrested again this a.m
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3535885/Alleged-Home-Office-mole-questioned-at-high-security-police-station.html
November 30th, 2008 at 9:27 am
So apart from the hope of a job, which seems a bit of a forlorn one now, why’d ‘e do it?
I think the HO should remove themselves and let him have the courage of his convictions, if he has any, that is
November 29th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
That’s a little harsh on Uncle Go-on, don’t you think?
For the benefit of the ignorant, once upon a time the Civil Service Unions sweated hard and long to get legislation through which would protect whistleblowers like Sarah Tisdall on Cruise missiles -banged up for 3 months after the Guardian fingered her to the plod in an excess of what it claimed to be patriotic zeal- and Clive Ponting on the sinking of the Belgrano- acquitted after the jury disregarded the Judge’s instruction to the jury to convict him- but the person currently sitting in a safe house under the Home Office’s duty of care didn’t seem very interested in using that hard fought for legislation in blowing the whistle on abuse of office.
If he had been, he would have used the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, instead of leaking information to Damien Green in the hope of getting a job from him.
And the Home Office wouldn’t have to provide said job aplicant with a safe house and minders to keep the tabloids from doorstepping him, and thus providing him with the right to sue the Home Office for failing to exercise its duty of care. Take a look at the relevant legislation on the duty of care to employees, and all will become clear…