Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for our ailing government, more crap starts to hit the fan.
It was alleged that anti-terrorism officials had secretly recorded a conversation between Labour MP Sadiq Khan and a constituent of his, who is currently in prison. According to the BBC, a senior police officer had authorised the secret bugging of the conversation.
After the news of the scandal broke, justice secretary Jack Straw called for an inquiry into the incident, but there have been claims that the government had known of the problem when shadow home secretary David Davis had written a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown about the conversation several weeks ago, only to be told by No10 that there wasn’t such a record of a letter being sent.
I smell a rat (I bet most readers of this blog do too)!
Let us face facts here (okay, I hate repeating it, so I’ll say it again). It’s clearly obvious that Labour have distrusted Muslims ever since 9/11, so they treat them with disdain. Khan, a Muslim, was elected an MP in 2005. Why on earth would he want to remain a Labour party member after this latest scandal?