Thread: Guardian CiF/Porter: Out of Afghanistan, into a police state

And yet I can remember a younger Kim Howells clad in obligatory leather jacket demanding the overthrow of Thatcher during the miners strike on the local West country TV channel. One of his main complaints was the subversion of the polices role to serve the purpose of the government rather than the people. No doubt you can imagine the fury he reserved for the utterly illiberal and quite disputable police tactic of stopping and searching cars...

Some background on Kim Howells. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Howells Flying the hammer and sickle fro Britain.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2009/nov/04/kim-howells-afghanistan-surveillance Out of Afghanistan, into a police state Posted by Henry Porter Wednesday 4 November 2009 13.00 GMT ... The former foreign office minister Kim Howells suggests that the policy in Afghanistan is not working and it is time to consider withdrawing troops and putting the money saved as result into the UK Border Agency and greater surveillance and...