Gordon Brown doesn't understand Civil Liberties

On the one hand he says he intends to protect Civil Liberties and then in the same speech wants to increase the 28 day detention period to 90 days. It is totally hypocritical.

It is a shame because some of the other suggestions he is making are sensible (i.e. using telephone tapping recordings as evidence), yet he is going to force many MPs to vote against the sensible stuff because of the most fundamental and illogical part of his plans.

The Conservatives should pledge to put a leaflet through the door of every constituent of every MP that changes vote and speaks differently to last time on this issue. That might be the way to overcome the Brown bully-boy tactics that will inevitably be used to make sure the new PM gets his way.