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Justice and Security Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Lord Reid of Cardowan (Labour) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 21 November 2012. It occurred during Debate on bills on Justice and Security Bill [HL].

Let me finish with the questions that I have been asked and then I will happily come back to the noble Lord.

The third question is whether I am off the point. I do not see how this issue can be discussed without a deeper understanding of the security—I truly do not—and yet in this Chamber I hear speech after speech about

law but no one sets out the circumstances in which we have to face these threats. We might as well try to exist in a vacuum. Of course we can turn our eyes and act blind to the world outside but we have at least to try and understand the circumstances that give rise to what the Government are doing, or alternatively we will be forced to say that they are either mad, bad, corrupt with power, lapdogs, murky, conspirators or acting at the behest of evil civil servants.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
740 cc1894-5 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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