Hmmmmmm - Nope don't get it

Why has David Davis resigned from Parliament and called a by-election. He is risking his career, for a good cause, but still risking his career.

DD may well succeed in lining up a series of big hitters who keep the 42 days issue and the wider civil liberties argument in the public eye but then what? Labour may get a kicking for a few weeks then what?

What will happen if and when he gets back to Parliament. Is he going to sit on the back benches as a loan wolf. I can't see it.

Assuming he wins it will be a bit tricky for him to walk back into the shadow Home Sec job now that there is one Mr Grieve QC MP in place. Mr Grieve is a good friend of David Davis, worked with him for years while shadow AG and in agreement with David Davis on many issues such as 42 days and ID cards. All the same I doubt he will want to step aside for DD. Nor would Cameron like to allow it.

I don't doubt he is sincere on this issue and he has a point. More than that, he is right. Dominic Grieve, David Cameron and the Tory Party agree with him. So could he not have carried on the fight in Parliament, couldn't he? These liberties have been attacked slyly for the last ten years and for the that time DD and others have fought to stop it. Why not continue the fight until the Tories are back in power and then have a go at sorting the out the authoritarian state Labour has invented.

Plus he has upset the famous "grid" of CCHQ. Not a big problem at all in the great scheme of things but has irritated the planners a bit.

oh well we shall see in a month or two how this pans out. Either way the civil liberties fight must and will go on.