Damian Green and Christopher Galley are bang to rights
My first thought when I heard that Damian Green had been arrested and that a civil servant had been arrested for leaking official documents was, 'I thought civil servants were meant to be politically neutral?'.
This is not a case of Christopher Galley being a civil servant who comes across some sensitive information, and getting a pang of conscience, decides to whistleblow in the public interest. Nor can Damian Green claim that his role as spymaster was in the public interest.
Under Constitutional and Administrative law "The most junior civil servants are permitted to participate in political activities, but must be politically neutral in the exercise of their duties".
Neither Damian Green nor Christopher Galley can claim that they have done nothing wrong.
The Tories have enough lawyers in their party to know that this claim Tories claim police tried to entrap Shadow Minister with phone calls from Home Office mole is a load of hogwash. There is no such thing under English law as entrapment.
The Tories can huff and puff all they like, the truth of the matter is they are upset that their mole has been unearthed and is no longer in a position to feed them information that they had no legal claim to receive.
Damian Green and Christopher Galley should both be in the Bloody Tower, on Remand, awaiting trial for treason!
UPDATE: Latest news on the Green/Galley affair
4 comments:
Are you for real? I seriously hope you give more thought to penal reform and criminal justice than you obviously do to constitutional issues
article 10 applies. We will see if an offence has been commited at the end of a trial...most of the upset arises out of the executives trampling thru the offices of the legislature, which is a constitutionally touchy area.
Wonder if you'd say that if it was Labour doing it? :)
Anon 8.49: Yes, I'm for real. I believe that I have hit the nail on the head.
James: As I am non-aligned, the truth is I would. I find it incredible that Damian Green thinks the law applies to others but not to his conduct.
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