David bloody Davis...

So David Davis resigns over the 42 days saga. Surely, if anyone was going to resign, it should've been those on the Labour party who voted against the government. But no, Mr Davis resigns because he wants to waste time and money by getting himself re-elected to draw attention to the issue. Er, excuse me Mr Davis, but I think we're all already bloody aware of the issue at hand here, and you faffing about trying to get votes in some Northern town no-one's ever heard of until yesterday isn't going to change that. I find the whole debacle a ridiculous waste of time, and it seems he's just drawing attention to himself rather than the issue at hand. Bugger all this banging on about the Magna Carte, why doesn't he stand up in Parliament and continue to fight on the issue instead of getting on the campaign trail? No wonder David Cameron looked a wee bit embarrassed. And let's face it, he's going to look like a bit of an idiot when the legislation doesn't get through Lords and the big vote looks fairly insignificant and unimportant.

I am pretty shocked the government won though. I don't understand how anyone could think this is a good idea. For starters, it's 2 weeks, which in the grand scheme of things probably won't make that much difference. I imagine if the government tried for any longer length of time they wouldn't have stood a chance though. But just think about it - the constant terror scares in this country mean that the public want to see people being investigated, plans being thwarted, the police constantly protecting us. So therefore at a whiff of something vaguely Al Qedia, rucksack, aeroplane, or even Muslim related, they pounce. So for all those innocent people arrested (which doubtless there are many), they can lose six weeks of their lives. Imagine you are held in custody for six weeks. What happens when you get out? Do you still have a job to go to after that time? Do you still even have a roof over your head, or have you missed a rent or mortgage payment? Do you have a huge stack of unpaid bills and final reminders and bailiffs at your door? It is ridiculous. Granted yes, it is only another 2 weeks to the current legislation, but who's to say it'll stop now? In American people can be detained for up to 6 months, even longer. Will the UK continually add 2 weeks until we get to 2 months, 3 months. I think really this sets a precedent that the government will be able to rely on to take this law further, which is very, very dangerous.

Granted terrorism is a serious threat, people do need to be caught and prevented from causing carnage. But if there's enough evidence for arrest then surely another months is more than enough to bring charges?

What a shambles.

Also, Chris Martin walking out halfway through an interview about his new album because the questions were too hard. I understand perhaps some artists not wanting to go too much indepth about their music, and leave it for the listeners to interpret without influence, but he clearly just couldn't be bothered to talk for fear of sounding like a fool and revealing that perhaps Viva La Vida, despite its high-brow cultural links, is in fact not particularly well thought out and that Martin still can't write a chorus. Perhaps. Annoyinly though, it's still a damn good album.