It was already a quarter to six in the morning when Nosher and I arrived at our little allotment in South Gloucestershire in this Dis-United Kingdom.
An overcast sky and cool breeze indicated that tha warm summer weather was taking a rest.
Nosher brought his old deckchair out of his shed and sat on it while his tea brewed.
'Looks like the defenders of personal liberty have a struggle on their hands' he said, as if I would know what he was talking about.
I sat in my deckchair nearby and breathed in the fresh air. Lovely.
'Are you talking about Lord Carlisle's speech last night?' I asked.
Nosher nodded.
'This man is Gordon the Moron's adviser on security matters' he replied 'and he gives a speech saying that national security is a civil right, without apparently appreciating the irony of the statement.'
'I always thought civil rights were rights of the individual' I said 'how can the nation's security be an individual right? To claim that it is surely presupposes that the national interest (if there is such a thing) is the same thing as individual rights, when we already know that we've been asked to surrender significant liberties supposedly to support greater national security.'
Nosher smiled - this time a 'you've done well, boy' smile.
'Exactly. Carlisle's speech is an announcement that Gordon the Moron is planning further attacks on personal liberty under the banner of increasing national security, when their current arrangements are already piecemeal and haphazard. Their only response is to decrease the individual's protection against arbitary arrest and detention. The lunatics are in charge of the asylum.'
'I fear they have been for some time' I replied.
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