David Davis resigns over 42 days detention.

[Gromit]

He has forced a bye-election at an uncomfortable time for Brown

"Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned as an MP.
He is to force a by-election in his Haltemprice and Howden constituency which he will fight on the issue of the new 42-day terror detention limit.
Mr Davis told reporters outside the House of Commons he believed his move was a "noble endeavour" to stop the erosion of British civil liberties."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7450627 .stm

Noble act or turning the thumb screws on Brown in what is a safe seat for the Tories?
Could this backfire and his constituents see this as wasting their time and not vote for him and let the Lib Dems in?

[DrFilth]

some comic masquerading as a newspaper (The Sun)
4gs may i ask what paper you like to read

[whiffey]

An extraordinarily futile gesture is now turning into an amusing farce. I think Eddie Izzard should stand.

Presumably DD gets back in and returns to the back benches of the Commons and well-deserved obscurity, having achieved absolutely diddly-squat except being a boring idiot.

[Gromit]

Kelvin MacKenzie cease editing the Sun in 1994,

Everything you need to know about this 'colourful' charcter can be found here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_MacKenzie