Hazel Blears thinks Muslims should expect to stopped and searched by Police more frequently due to the threat of Islamic terrorism - nothing at all to do with racism in the Police, then?

Jordan failed in her bid to represent the UK at Eurovision - still if you did catch her ‘performance’ last night at least you’ll know what happened to the Fembots after they finished with the Austin Powers movies.

The front page of Thursday’s Independent helpfully provided an itemised list of verious erosions in civil liberties during the Blair era, but it seems we may not be finished quite yet as, according to Tony, we’ve still got plenty to be afriad of - with all the supposed plots going on one wonders just how long it would take these people to committ their planned atrocities - 45 minutes, perhaps?

For all their posturing over the anti-terrorist bill, its seem that when it came to the crunch the Lib Dems bottled out of voting the proposals down with 18 no-shows on a vote that Labour won by a mere fourteen votes - so much for taking a stand, eh?

The reality is that for all the ‘thud and blunder’ in the press, neither opposition party is really going to vote down these proposals in their entirety and risk a ‘told you so’ scenario in the run in to a General Election should a terrorist attack actually happen - something that Labour and Home Secretary, Charles Clark, knows all too well.

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