'Please, sir, I want some more.'

“Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: 'Please, sir, I want some more.'”
Of course the Security Services want more time , they always will !

Cross dressing abounds in the New-statesman and Speccie this morning on Labour`s "visionary" 56 days detention. The Spectator opines that most would be happy for Mooslims to be banged up for decades,pending charges, and that if 28 days is already high for a developed democracy,then we are far more in the merde than the rest.Indeed we are, and whose fault is that?. The left Liberal Ostriches that imported a nation within a nation intent on our destruction, thats who. See Melanie Phillips Londonistan on that score....

Anyway, despite Gordon Brown and his Party being responsible for the crisis, the Spectator is supportive of the extension .This is rich Brown sauce. He has created a mess and then requires prescriptive powers to mop it up ! The support of authoritarian elements like the Mail`s Editor, Paul Dacre can be relied on.It was discussed ,no doubt ,over Dinner at Chequers where he is a frequent Brown noser.

To me it’s a little like forgetting who burnt the Reichstag building in the first place . But Brown is rather like slow motion Nazism on may ways as Dave-Boy-Greenish ,gleefully pointed out.Labour`s 'British jobs for British workers' mirrors BNP Literature in the same ilk exactly

After the 7.7 slaughter,so quickly forgotten while the Press obsesses over Iain Blair’s relatively minor crime of incompetence, investigators spent a fortnight just getting access to the site,and a further six weeks to complete forensic enquiries .In such circumstances Iain Blair, and MI5`s Mr. Evans, would love more time .MI5 would like us to believe that the relative peace we observe is the product of their vigilance. The timing of the terrifying Manchester speech was , of course , government prompted. So do they have an operational point ?

I doubt it makes a blind bit of difference.If a bureaucracy has 56 days then you can be quite certain that is how long they will take and still, like little Oliver, ... want more .
Martin Bright , the New Statesman lefty , notes sourly that the Conservative decision to defend our Liberties, has lead to a bizarre situation.. On 28 days and ID cards Conservatives , Law Lords and Liberal Britain are on one side while the Labour Party is on the other. Nothing bizarre about that Martin ,and I do not much relish your company for what its worth.

I think Conservatives have got this right . I do not see sufficient advantage in an increasing the period of detention without charge which was 48 hours in 1997. I also think that politically Cameron has once again out foxed Brown. Brown looks at Polls at thinks” Tough on Terrorism “is a winner. In gross numbers it is , but in the vital swing seats it is not . Liberal Britain predominates here . Liberals and Conservatives equally detest Mr. B`s authoritarian strutting and fake flag waving. It was his poor marginal seat analysis that caught Brown out over the phantom election.

In Simon Jenkins` book “ Thatcher and Sons “he mentions that after the Brighton Bombing our Saintly Margaret, of all virtues , did not respond with a raft of illiberal legislation , but by requesting that Marks and Spencer’s opened early so survivors could replace clothes lost in the blast. ... Brown is wrong on this and he has misjudged the British people . They do not want to sacrifice Liberties , they want the security services to pull their fingers out and do their job. 28 days is enough..