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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Black Elk" |
| Date: |
10 Nov 2005 08:02:08 PM |
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British MPs tell Blair to stick his no charge detainment. |
Apparently British backbones are stiffer than American.
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10 November 2005 18:51
Cabinet rallies to defiant Blair as criticism mounts
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor
Published: 11 November 2005
Tony Blair branded the rebel Labour MPs who defeated his anti-terrorism law
"out of touch" as he rebuffed their demands for him to become a listening
prime minister.
An uncompromising Mr Blair told the Cabinet yesterday that there was a gulf
between MPs who rejected police requests for power to detain terrorist
suspects for up to 90 days without charge and the reality of terror threats.
Cabinet ministers rallied to Mr Blair, but senior backbenchers were furious
about his comments and warned he must "listen more" to secure planned
changes to education, health and welfare. Some rebels privately likened him
to an "out-of-touch" Margaret Thatcher in the period before she was ousted
in 1990.
David Winnick, a Labour MP who successfully proposed a 28-day detention
limit on Wednesday, said: "The idea that those of us who voted for 28 days -
the majority of MPs - don't understand the terrorist threat, that we are
soft on terror and don't understand the menace from the mass murderers ...is
poisonous nonsense. Not one single life of those innocent people murdered on
7 July would have been saved if it was 90 days."
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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article326332.ece
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