Far easier to have a pop at Davis than you own pathetic excuse for a Prime Minister who introduced this awful legislation and doesn't have the bottle to defend his position.

Frankly I can't stand Cameron and have no desire to see him in as PM but I am looking forward to seeing your party get the drubbing it so richly deserves at the next election.

I like the cut of your jib Bob, your slogan and your football allegiance. But the Labour Party should have put up a candidate out of respect for the people of Haltemprice and Howden. And the anti-42-days-liberal-left should do the same.

Martin, I'm no defender of 42 days (or 28 either, actually, unlike Davis who appears to agree to be selective in his passion for civil liberties - this a man who favoured hanging the Birmingham 6)) but you are clearly a man of good taste, and you must realise that Davis would have used a walkover victory over Labour (40,000 combined Tory/Lib Dem votes in 2005 to 6,000 Labour when we won the general election) to claim some sort of popular mandate for his argument.

What is he trying to prove? Winning that bye-election will establish nothing. Would a victory for a pro-hanging right-wing Tory in Kensington and Chelsea be a mandate for hanging? Would Tony Benn go and speak up for his 'brave' friend there?

Richard, people like you have been waiting 11 years. Calm down... live with it.

Isn't David Davis on the editorial board of the new magazine, Total B******s, run by Iain Dale?

Give this man a break Bob, he's under a lot of strain.

Ooo 'lefty royalty' you are honoured Bobina. Martin Bright who I recall quoting a survey of 200 friends of Gordon Brown?s marketing gingga bint of Sith fame and calling it journalism( they decided the City loved him...ha ha ha ) . As I patiently explained to you the swing of a seat is understood by the media and people not only you. He can make a valid point .Do you know I was about to quote the Martin Bright article saying (what he just said in about 15 of the time) in the New Statesman.

On the selectiveness of 42 days that?s the argument the authoritarians always use. No line will be neat and tidy but that does not make it wrong to draw a line.
We used to like Bright for his sterling work attacking Islam but his early slavish support for Gordon brown has made him look a twit ... and then again he hated Ken...a curates egg of a chap

Do you like the way he thinks he can get down with the common people by mentioning football?

Always a pleasure , never a chore Bobby

Bob
I think you may be right that the 'stunt' is backfiring: it will ber killed by apathy and I've sensed a fair bit of that once the dust settled on his odd decision. It needs some new injection to enable it to take off again but odds now are that Davis threw away his political career for a brief few moments in the limelight for which he so clearly yearns.

newmania... I can help you... you can get drugs, you know.

Errm, that is... unless it's the drugs that are giving you the problem.

I understand you recently became a father. I was most surprised you could work out how to do it.

Isn't basic instinct a wonderful thing.

Total B******s, run by Iain Dale?

That is quite funny I must admit

Bob, try and find out what newmania is on and we'll clean up flogging it round some of the pubs you'd know more about than me. Up for it?

I think this latest stunt by David Davis takes the biscuit (or should that be strawberries and cream?)...

You cannot be serious!

"Far easier to have a pop at Davis than you own pathetic excuse for a Prime Minister who introduced this awful legislation and doesn't have the bottle to defend his position."

Bob. Sorry to demonstrate my ignorance so publicly but as someone who doesn't profess to understand the intricacies of the political system, (unlike your commentators here) wasn't the 42 days debated, voted on and settled in the HoC with a 9 vote win? And if that is the case why does the PM have to defend it yet again by standing someone to contest Davis in his own already won seat?

And btw Ben Brogan is floating a suggestion that Davis's real agenda is to be the next Speaker, which would be compensation for his losing the leadership I suppose, keep him out of Cameron's hair in future, and hopefully give him enough pay, perks, and power to satisfy his ambition? And the accommodation's not to be sniffed at either.

I see David Icke is now standing.....this gets better and better for poor old Basher.

If the taxpayer wasn't paying for this, it would be now hysterically funny.

You know who Martin Bright is don't you?I was impressed

You're easily impressed. He's still wrong... even if he seems to know a bit about footie and is a good judge of a man's jib!

It's a good job for your lot Bob that Davis's stunt is backfiring. Imagine what the Tory lead would have been in tonight's ICM/Guardian poll had it been well received.

Yes but as lefty writers go he is Real Madrid to your Sandwell under-eights second eleven.

How about some cap doffing

Hey... he commented on my blog... remember?

That's the trouble with you non-toff tories, you're so bloody subservient.

"Ooo 'lefty royalty' you are honoured Bobina. Martin Bright who I recall quoting a survey of 200 friends of Gordon Brown?s marketing gingga bint of Sith fame and calling it journalism( they decided the City loved him...ha ha ha ) . As I patiently explained to you the swing of a seat is understood by the media and people not only you. He can make a valid point .Do you know I was about to quote the Martin Bright article saying (what he just said in about 15 of the time) in the New Statesman."

Does this come with an instruction manual for those of us more accustomed to reading English? See what happens with Tory education policy?

I know what you mean, dobbsy, it is a bit like reading the operating instructions for a Korean video recorder. I usually give up after the opening paragraph. Life`s too short.