To Stimulate Public Interest

As the David Davis saga continues, it may well have opened the floodgates in the Tory Party. We have heard persistantly in the MSM that David Cameron had always been apprehensive about vehement opposition to 42-days because he didn't want to appear soft on terrorism.

Well, either the MSM were wrong (a good possibility) or the reception to Davis' resignation had a positive effect (also a good possibility), for the new Shadow Home Secretary, Dominic Grieve, has not only reaffirmed Davis' commitment to repeal the 42 days legislation, but has now pledged to "review" the 28 days limit, which he describes as being "much longer" than it should be. Good news for those of us trying to push the state back up the slippery slope from which it came.

However, Grieve also admitted that Davis might "fail to stimulate public interest in the subject, which would be regrettable".

It certainly would be, because as Devil's Kitchen points out today, Davis isn't doing this for his career, the Tory Party, or to try and convince the political class:

Stuff the political classes and the professional media and the Westminster Village; if Davis's resignation prompts the ordinary people of this country—those who wave flags at the Last Night of the Proms whilst gleefully singing about how they "never, never will be slaves"—actually to consider the nature of liberty and to pause, take stock, and realise what freedoms they have already lost, then it will have been more than a "stunt", more than a vain and empty gesture.

It might just wake people up, to drag them away from their facile, tedious lives, and force them to realise that they are already slaves to a great extent. Maybe, just maybe, they will look up from their reality TV shows and their TV dinners, and their binge drinking, their drugs and their petty theft, and understand that there are some things, some concepts, rather more important than who is going to win Big Brother.