Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Tax Evader

Rather than respond to CoffeeHousers in the comment thread of my blog earlier, I thought I’d do it in a post (and also take in some of the comments from Twitter and my Telegraph piece). I’ve been accused of “starting to sound like a leftie” – and for what it’s worth, I don’t sign up to the David Davis civil liberties agenda. Not all of it, anyway. I’m all for snooping if it helps catch murderers or jihadis. But what I don’t like is this age-old politicians trick of pushing a whole load of powers through in the name of ‘national security’ then, next thing you know, the council is trawling your email data. Anyway, to the comments:-

1) ‘Fraser Nelson, like Horatio, chooses to look with the wrong eye – it’s all down to the EU…’ Boudicca et al, I’m all up for putting blame at the EU’s door when needed (and my brilliant colleague James Delingpole has written