Will Brown Have The Balls To Fight? No.

A big question and one where the answer is taking a long time to appear. Winning the 42 days vote was an example of politics at its worst, it's most disreputable. By a combination of outright bribery and blackmailing his own side with 'Do you really want a messy leadership election contest with our ratings so low?' being whispered by the whips into the Labour rebels' ears.

This is how civil liberties are overturned, not out of necessity but out of saving one mans political skin, out of a twisted machination to recoup a few points in the polls by painting the Conservatives as being 'weak on terrorism'.

Let's make one thing clear: David Davis has done this on principle. He is serious and genuine. This is not a moment of madness, a foolish move but a brave decision to take a stand.

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, accused the Conservatives of being in “total disarray”. Well, that's a subject she has a great deal of experience of!

Will Labour fight to defend their policy or will they be too afraid?

Does Brown have any balls at all? No. They won't put up a candidate to defend their policies or attempt to justify their actions before the electorate. It seems that the only balls he has is called Ed.

Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, branded Mr Davis's behaviour "odd" - Well Jack would find sticking to your principles odd. This is a man who had a long standing Labour party member in his eighties arrested for calling him 'rubbish' at the party conference, so we can clearly not trust him or his tired and discredited party to use this new legislation wisely.