Occasional Scribbles

Does anyone think it was strange that immediately after the votes were in on the disgraceful proposal to extend detention without charge or trial to 42 days the BBC anounced that Top Secret documents were found on a train? 

I would suggest that someone diliberately left the documents there to show that not only are the government useless at looking after domestic data, it is in fact completely incompetant with all data, top secret aswell.  It seems strange that these so called sensitive documents were handed to the BBC and not to the police.  So when did they receive them?  Did they have them before the votes were cast and sit on the story?  The way the matter was reported it seems most likely that they did.  Mention of this debacle came within minutes of the reportage of the ‘Yes’ vote win.  They did not say, as they sometimes do that they had just received news of importance, ‘news just in…’.  They clearly knew some time before.

So now there will be an investigation.  Big deal, we will not be told the truth that is for sure.  But I hope we are told whether the BBC have conspired to keep the lid on this information that may have affected the voting.  Or whether they were told to do so. Of course it is quite possible that it would have made no difference since the MP’s have allowed themselves to be bribed into voting yes.  I don’t think Gordon Brown can possibly describe this as a ‘win’ when the means to acheive this were corrupt.  The MP’s should have voted according to their conscience and should not have been allowed to offered bribes.  It makes a mockery of democracy.  Shame on them.