Liberty
If I were to be arrested and detained for six weeks without charge, and then released, it would have a catastrophic effect on my life; if I was working, rather than retired, supporting a young family and striving to progress in my career it might be fatal.
It could never happen to me? Perhaps not but it could happen to younger more vulnerable people. And it could happen under any government, not just the present one, if the changes carried in the Commons ever pass into the statute book. If I were to tell you that every email you send, every phone call you make, can easily be intercepted, and probably are intercepted, for the most trivial of reasons and that your every action in most shopping malls, department stores and town centres are routinely recorded on CCTV cameras and accessed by many untrained and potentially unscrupulous observers then you will appreciate why I support David Davis’s brave and principled stand. It is time threats to our liberties were faced for what they are - potential tools for some future authoritarian regime.