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42 days terror detention 'law' massively defeated in House of Lords vote to maintain civil liberties


New Labour's obsession with detention without trial has again been rejected but for how long?

• New Labour regime in complete disarray as Brown suffers his worst defeat to date

Confused Prime Minister Gordon Brown will scrap plans to extend pre-charge detention of terror suspects to 42 days following a massive defeat in the House of Lords.

The vote was carried by 309 to 118 in the Lords and marks a crushing defeat for the Red Regime's anti-democratic Counter-Terrorism Bill. Had the Bill succeded and raised the time terrorism suspects can be held without charge to 42 days from 28 days, the consequences would have been a disaster and encouraged terrorism.

The majority of 191 was the Government's worst defeat since most of the hereditary peers lost their seats in 1999, only to be replaced by the likes of corrupt Peter Mandelson.

The unecessary extension had been carried in the Commons by a tiny 'majority' of just nine votes - despite a rebellion by 36 Labour MPs. Former shadow Home Secretary David Davis, who resigned from the Commons and successfully fought a by-election on the issue of opposing the increase to 42 days, welcomed the damning result.

He said: 'The Lords have now firmly rejected the proposal for 42 days with incisive and insightful criticisms of the Governments proposals from all parts of the House. It has been clear for sometime that this proposal is based not on national security, but on party politics, and the wise decision now is to let this unwise proposal drop. This would be in the interests on national security and civil liberties.'

Chris Huhne, Lib Dems home affairs spokesman said: 'This crushing defeat makes clear that the Government has zero chance of getting this misbegotten and counterproductive legislation though Parliament. It should now cut its losses and ditch the idea entirely.'

But NuLab's obsession with destroying democracy, civil liberties and turning Britain in a Police State under the smokescreen of the ridiculous 'war on terror' will only be stopped when Brown and his gang of nasty, immature Marxists are thrown out of government ad infinitum.

In the interim, we can celebrate another serious defeat for NuLab and their politicised police who were hell-bent on taking Britain in the direction of detention without trial on indefinite basis.

But let no one think that Brown and his gang will now stop plotting and scheming behind the scenes to get what they want and in essense what they want is not what the majority of people want.

At one time NuLab had somehow managed to con 70% of the population into supporting the Police State blueprint but now only 30% support the madcap scheme.

Whilst the House of Lords has seen sense and rejected the latest attack on civil liberties it seems incapable of doing anything else productive to raise its code of 'ethics' by preventing Peter Mandelson from disgracing the upper house.

We can all celebrate at NuLab's latest crushing defeat but we must remind ourselves that there is still much hard work to do before Brown is kicked out of 10 Downing Street and our democratic rights restored.

Bring on the General Election!

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