Labour Home on habeas corpus

Labour Home has a poll up at the moment on the subject of how many days the police should be able to lock people up without charge. This presumably follows on from Mike Ion's piece there in which he wondered if it should be 28 or 42 days.

Unfortunately for the Labour leadership and for their attendant Brown-nosers like Mr Ion, even among Labour supporters, the favoured option is 2 days.

Perhaps you might like to go over and lend your support. 

Comments

[Tristan Mills]

Funny, they don't offer the 14 days it used to be... Trying to shore up the status quo perhaps by offering only short or long times of detention?

[Jock]

Clearly better than the Lib Dem Voice members whose main preference seems to be for 14 days. Presumably you have to be a bona fide nulabista to vote in their poll - it doesn't seem to offer me the option of doing so.

[Bishop Hill]

I guess you must have to register, but if they'll accept me, I'm sure they'll let you in.

[rwendland]

I wouldn't put much value on this poll, as the blogger phrased the question poorly leaving out the word "terrorist", as "Police should be able to detain suspects without charge for how long?" So the question strictly applies to e.g. shoplifters more than terrorists, but the poll was often in the context of a "terrorist" issue blog. In practice different voters were answering different questions! Useless.

[Bishop Hill]

I'm not sure the distinction is a valid one, since presumably the police can decide who is under suspicion of terrorism and who isn't.