Gordon Brown's Commons victory on 42 days' detention has nothing to do with counter-terrorism. It is, as Dianne Abbot MP so eloquently put it, all about positioning.
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42 days detention has nothing to do with our security
Gordon Brown's Commons victory on 42 days' detention has nothing to do with counter-terrorism. It is, as Dianne Abbot MP so eloquently put it, all about positioning. Like Blair's rejected 90-days proposal, it is designed to make Tories appear "soft on terrorism" and peel off a slice of Middle England's saloon-bar support to New Labour. We have a Prime Minister ready to become a recruiting sergeant for al Qaeda and curtail our liberties in exchange for a few weeks' improved opinion poll ratings.
