Torture and human rights: David Davis accuses Labour of 'cover up'

If you even needed yet another good reason to never trust Labour with your vote ever again, this surely has to be it.

A lengthy report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights has called for an independent inquiry into allegations of British collusion in torture. The report is available online HERE (pdf file) and makes for damning reading.

Conservative MP David Davis - who famously resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in order to fight a by-election to draw attention to Labour's brutal assault on British civil liberties and privacy from the State - is openly condemning the Labour Government over the allegations of collusion in torture.

Whilst his Parliamentary colleague William Hague is quoted in The Guardian making more disappointingly wishy-washy noises about the possibility of the Tories holding an inquiry, civil liberties hero David Davis openly accuses the Government of acting in a manner where they have made "clear violations of the UK's international legal obligations".

Davis goes a stage further, saying of the failure to publish key guidelines which has been highlighted by the JCHR report: "All of this smacks of a cover-up. If they've got nothing to hide, why not publish the guidelines?"

David Davis has been putting pressure on the Government over this for quite a while and recently made a very passionate speech in the House of Snouts on the issue. He is to be praised for this, and for his previous actions in trying to make an issue of Labour's erosion of civil rights against the British citizen.

Mr. Davis is joined in our praise by The Guardian newspaper which sets the standard in reporting grave issues of civil liberties and human rights abuses and it's coverage of these exemplifies why the British public must never succumb to or allow Government regulation of the British media. Whilst the British mainstream media often gets criticised - often it's own fault for just churning out regurgitated guff from press releases rather than actually conducting in journalism - it is stories like this, pursued relentlessly by The Guardian, which are testimony to how the British media is our last line of defence against an all too sinister Labour administered State which - all too often - seems way out of control.

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In fairness to William Hague, he has written an open letter to Gormless demanding answers to a series of matters on the issue of collusion and - as well as publishing the letter on the Conservative website - has also sent his letter to the media. However, we do expect Mr. Hague to follow up on this demand for answers with a public show of authority that one would expect of a leader who hopes will be entrusted with upholding British standards of decency in all things.