What an arse. To be fair, half of me feels sorry for him, especially as he has fallen (after being given several helping shoves, no doubt) on his sword; but the other half simply cannot believe the crassness of his blunder. After all, what none of the commentators seem to be saying is that it is almost inevitable that he has committed a criminal offence and breached section 8(1) of the Official Secrets Act 1989, which is subject to a maximum sentence of three months' imprisonment.Update: ah, I see that Guido has pointed out the OSA breach, though why he modifies it by calling it 'technically' a breach I don't know. Arguably, this is a situation that section 8 was designed to deal with; after all it seems quite possible that by forcing the arrests to take place earlier than planned, damage to nataional security may have resulted.
Update 2: and it's not as though this whole photographing of papers in Downing Street thang hasn't happened recently, is it Caroline Flint?
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Indeed, but isn't the promotion of "Yates of the Yard" absolutely inspired? The last time he entered Downing Street was to feel their own collars.
I thought we forgave Ms Flint cos she was a bit of alright? That can't have been Jacqkieuie Smith...
Did you share all my comments over breakfast with Guido? Have you passed on to him my instruction to wash the cat bowls?
Red Harriet, any more comments like that and I'll have you banned.
(The cat bowls are now washed, dear.)
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