The Gov­ern­ment suf­fered a truly mas­sive kick­ing in the House of Lords over it’s cyn­i­cal “Vote For Us & We’ll Pro­tect You From Ter­ror­ists” bill.

Jacky Smith read her script in the com­mons in the cus­tom­ary lack lus­tre fash­ion: Her drunken spin was seen trip­ping over the truth and crash­ing into solid evi­dence before falling into the road, only to be run over by a truck dri­ven by wide eyed and alert Lords.

The fun­da­men­tal argu­ment she made were as always: “It may be use­ful in the future, we don’t know, so lets have it just in case”; “we, uniquely in all the world, need 42 days when no-one else does”; “We are fight­ing a new & unique men­ace”, and so we need new and uniquely men­ac­ing legislation.

Every­one else mocked her and the Government’s stance as trans­par­ent ter­ror­bol­locks pan­der­ing to Daily Mail head­lines and engag­ing in polit­i­cal machismo, as Geeklawyer has said many times before, in the hope of get­ting more votes.