It now seems that the government's anti-terror legislation has - as many (now-imprisoned) critics said at the time - been somewhat over-zealous. Not of course - I hasten to add - that I am in any way at all criticising it myself, or course. I know that under the Government (Slight) Disparagement act of 2008, I could face up to 15 years in prison without trial for even daring to criticise a serving Government Minister's tie, let alone daring to question any legislation the government may feel like enacting on any particular day.
After all, we all remember the TV pictures from a few months ago, when the whole of the opposition benches in the House of Commons were carried off to 7 years precautionary detention. This, of course, happened when the Opposition Spokesman on School Turkey Twizzler Procurement mentioned that the Education Secretary had made a slight grammatical error in his statement to the house. Where, on the disputed claim by the Government of a 12% increase in the number of school pupils who may have actually seen a copy of a textbook at some point in their school career, claiming he used a semi-colon instead of a coma.
Shortly after that, of course, the TV team involved in filming the proceedings of the house were also arrested and imprisoned 'purely as a precaution' under the Acts Glorifying Terrorism ( By Making The Government Or Its Officials Look A Bit Crap) Legislation of 2007.
I know too that now, in turn, I will soon face a visit from Special Branch for merely mentioning the above episode in this article and that you too, for reading it will also face….
"Oh, hello… er… officer…. I was… er… just…. But wouldn't hitting me with that be regarded as police bru………………"
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