Quote of the day 9th February 2015


“Blowing a whistle on council corruption doesn’t warrant undercover surveillance. A front page that embarrasses a senior politician is not a threat to national security. Journalism is not terrorism.”

(Sajid Javid MP, Culture secretary)

Comments

Anonymous said…
Not even in Cumbria?
Chris Whiteside said…
I hope that John Stevenson or Rory Stewart will hold such a post some day, but if by "senior politician" you mean a member of the cabinet the last one we had in Cumberland was Junket Jack - and embarrassing him was not terrorism but a public service.

I had a higher opinion of the last cabinet minister to represent a seat in South Cumbria, John Hutton, but whoever leaked what JH apparently really thought about Gordon Brown was also doing a public service.

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