Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Tony Martin Laws Again

Backword Dave makes the astonishing claim that the Daily Telegraph & Conservative party is backing away from their demands for a change in the law on what you can or cannot do to a burglar, based on this article. This leader is perhaps a better indication of their thinking, and it doesn't seem to have changed much since they ditched one backbenchers' bill that would have allowed you to kill anyone in your garden on a mere suspicion that they were going to steal some flowers, for merely not 'grossly disproportionate' force.

The irony is of course that none of these laws would in any case have acquitted pin-up Tony Martin.