Does the David Davis by-election matter?

Davis stood down to force a by-election on the Labour Governments decision to extend pre-trial detention to 42 days. The Liberal Democrats supported his line and did not stand. Labour decided they weren't going to bother standing either. A craven decision which showed their cowardice and their lack of faith in their own position.

Has David Davis succeeded in bringing 42 days to the attention of the general public? The answer is that it's too early to say. However Davis has shown that he has guts and political principles thereby marking him out as unusual in an era of spin and stealing the opponents philosophy.

David Cameron on the other hand has resorted to kniving the poor and sick and thereby showed quite clearly that the Conservatives remain the nasty party that they have always been.

He will no doubt win in England but he won't get in in Scotland or Wales. We don't want Conservatism and Brown and Blairs New Labour/Rosey Toryism has frankly been a complete waste of time.

There is an alternative and the SNP are proving highly credible in Government.

If it's a choice between Scotland and the SNP or Britain under either Blair or Cameron we are going to choose independence. Funnily enough at that point a freed Tory party which is Scottish in its outlook may do better, but it would have to get over it's current addiction to being British.