The plot thickens

It seems difficult to get away from the Damian Green affair and the shadowy motives of either the British government and/or the police, particularly as it has now been revealed that a key target of the police search through Green's e-mails was the name of Shami Chakrabarti, the Director of Liberty.



Now we know that Ms Chakrabarti causes smoke to come out of the nose of Andy Burnham, for one, after his scathing comments about her relationship with David Davis - “late-night, hand-wringing, heart-melting phone calls”. OK the government doesn't like her affinity to Davis, nor I suspect do they like her strong mobilisation of opinion against the 42 day detention proposals, but is Shami Chakrabarti really considered to be a danger to the state, a security risk worthy of investigation - or is this a politically motivated group of people, working off political beefs against someone, in her role as protector of human rights, who appears to thwart their objectives at every turn?

Whatever the truth it seems pretty clear that there was no connection to Damian Green and the leaks and it appears no one told Ms Chakrabarti that she was under suspicion for anything.

This is all starting to sound even more off the wall and out of control and reflects very badly on the government in general.

In a separate development today, Alice Mahon, the former left wing Labour MP has resigned from the party in disgust over what she describes as 'the last straw' of the appalling Damian McBride e-mails but her anger and disillusion is more widely aimed at the direction in which the Labour Party is headed.



In remarks which must reflect the feelings of so many she said 'When Gordon Brown took over as leader, I really felt we might move further in the direction of being a principled and caring party. I couldn't have been more wrong."


And so say many of us!