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When yesterday lunch-time, David Davis announced his resignation from Parliament and the Conservative front bench over 42 Days, I was impressed. It had nothing to do with whether it was the “right” or “smart” thing to do but in terms of personal commitment, an “oasis of cool” in a very parched and shrivelled up political landscape.

I as very many other members of the public, wrote in “well done” to all the usual web bulletin boards but of course I awaited with amused patience, the “media view”. The “Media” is very funny and has a “collective response to any story” regardless of the political persuasion of the ‘outfit’ they work for plus of course, “the story” or focus changes frequently.

The response from the media freaks is quite hilarious from the “habitués of the Westminster Village” to the the evil bony old craws of Rupert Murdoch and a non entity of a former Sun Editor who Murdoch has encouraged to stand against Davis… the latter claims. Clearly the 12^th of June was a day of people making highly questionable decisions all round !

Murdoch, Is He Totally Mad ?

A former editor (Kelvin MacKenzie ),of the Sun met Rupert Murdoch at some soiree yesterday evening (he says), and as a consequence with Murdoch’s backing, he will stand against David Davis in the bye-election following his resignation, has Murdoch totally lost the plot, is he finally in his dotage ?

To own a publication that has a daily circulation of 5 million copies gives you power, Blair would “suck” to get the Sun Newspaper’s support for the Blair/Witch Project and all that is fair enough but that is the “Fourth Estate” and very well established in the United Kingdom but, never deviate from that path.

If Murdoch deviates and gives practical or even tacit support to a former employee in this bye-election, he is nuts. The freedom of the press is sacrosanct but, only if it is commentating, the moment it participates in the political process, it becomes corrupted and part of the problem, not part of the solution. Perhaps this is a “cocktail party”mistake, but then again, like the Earls of Warwick in the Wars of the Roses, perhaps Rupert Murdoch sees himself as the “King Maker” in British Politics and in which case, his head must surely be forfeit ? Silly old sod, take a pill and lie down before you fall down !

With Regard to David Davis

Personally I feel Davis’s outrage over 42 days is more than a gesture, it seems totally genuine and British politics is the better for a bit of real personal conviction. In addition and never thought that I would write this ever, if the LibDems as the closest rivals for the seat, refuse to fight it, well done them too.

The real problem and in no small part due to the “Sun Newspaper”, the average voter thinks that 42 days will only apply to “brown Muslim people” who are likely to be involved in “terrorist acts” and this is a total nonsense.

As a clear example, the “Extradition Treaty” between the US and the UK was set up specifically for Blair to “kowtow” to Bush but was intended to do with “terrorist suspects”. Because of the differences between US and UK Law, it was always going to be unequal and biased to the States but who could have predicted the outcome ? In the most part it has been used to require British Businessmen to be extradited to the States to face charges over “crimes” that don’t exist in the UK but do for “foreigners” in the US.

So when your average Sun reader thinks “42 days or 420 days, I don’t give a shit !” They are overlooking the fact that they too are subject to these same laws.

Freedom is Important

David Davis may well have come rather late to the party and 42 days is by no means the only issue, the EU despite the Irish referendum result is equally and along with Fat Cats in Brussels, Brown Milliband and our own dear Foreign Office, oppressive, “state-ist” and most likely, totally Fascist, labour camps will come as a prelude to the gas chambers, is a likely result for the brave Irish people and then, also for the rest of these Island Races.

There is another factor that the British Media with all their annal retentive myopia have rather over-looked: Davis and a large part of the Tory Party backed him, contested the Leadership battle with Cameron who won and from here, some thoughts.

The most likely outcome in May 2010 is a Tory Government with a good working majority however and by his actions, David Davis has ensured one important thing whatever the outcome, he will sit on the back benches and in effect, become the Tory Party’s touchstone and conscience of the principles behind the Party and the government it delivers. In a sense, Davis has sacrificed his political “tomorrow” because he won’t be welcomed on to the front bench easily, for the country’s today and a better tomorrow.

By his actions, rather than harming the Tory Party, he has enhanced it, by going “Lone Wolf” he has generously given David Cameron a whole lot of “wriggle room”, I really do hope David Cameron is up to the gig !