Met Police were politically fishing for Smith!

The days are ticking by for this wretched government. All spin and deceit big time, they are. Gordon Brown eventually says sorry for the disgusting emails one of his creepy entourage sent to Derek Draper about senior Conservatives. He seemed totally at loss to realise the damage this kind of thing does to society.

Now we are told that the police who burst into Damian Green's office were actually using the event as an opportunity to rifle his files to check up on any personal contact he may have had with Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, who is a regular critic of the government.

This shows all the hallmarks of a clumsy administration putting clumsy pressure on a willing police force. Damian Green, who is the Conservative immigration spokesman, said, "This feels to me like a fishing expedition on somebody who embarrasses the government of the day. That's very disturbing. To have the police searching for contacts between opposition politicians and civil liberties campaigners isn't something anyone should feel comfortable with."

No, I don't and that's why I'm highlighting it here. Pity I can't use searchlights!