After saying this:
Instead, he said, the Government should insist that “our rights are priceless” and that: “The best way to face down those threats is to strengthen our institutions rather than to degrade them.”
He\’s retiring.
After saying this:
Instead, he said, the Government should insist that “our rights are priceless” and that: “The best way to face down those threats is to strengthen our institutions rather than to degrade them.”
He\’s retiring.
otherwise they would have sacked him. Bearing in mind the likely value of his pension, that was never an option.
The issue is, people are now saying it. He won’t be the last.
They always manage to summon up the courage to tell the truth just before they retire, don’t they?
JM,, True, as I said in the comments in “Last Ditch”…
The depressing thing about this event, and others like them, is that these members of “The Great and The Good” only discover their principles and start to criticise once they’re about to get their trotters out of the public trough and settle into comfortable, tax-payer-funded retirement.
Former A-G Lord Goldsmith was the same about the extention of detention without charge – but I’d rather they support liberty at some point rather than never at all.