Neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak

More rumbles from Greengate, with the Speaker now under fire for, in an sense, allowing the sanctity of Parliament to be violated. Didn't we fight a bloody and crippling civil war so as to enable the Speaker to do as "this House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am here", rather than kowtow to the police in allowing them to search Damian Green's Westminster offices?

Perhaps more disturbing is Jacqui Smith's continued Pilate-esque washing of her hands of the whole affair; she needs to remember that she is the de facto head of the police and that their authority is derived from her and her colleagues, not the other way around. The new line seems to be that Green was "grooming" a civil servant to leak documents and so forth, and thus was guilty of far more naughty behaviour than merely being in receipt of said documents.

Quite how the police could prove this in court is not clear; various jurists have posited that they could not, and thus ETTL is firm in his belief that the arrest was meant to put the frighteners on Green and any other opposition MPs or civil servants, including the rumoured Treasury mole. Interesting times for Parliamentary democracy certainly, but not events that I would wish to see in the mother of all Parliaments.