# David Davis resigns over 42-day detention

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 12, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-over-42-day-detention/452675 "2008-06-12T12:46:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-over-42-day-detention/452675/1 "2008-06-12T12:46:37Z")

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Bleeding heck! Story [here](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7450627.stm).

He cites Magna Carta too. Surveillance society, Parliament Act, database state, the intrusion of the state into people’s lives, etc.

It’s politics, of course, but it’s still a brave and bold move. I think it’s also very cunning: if Cameron should falter, he’ll be the obvious choice.

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**Author:** ![shefDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@shefDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shefDave)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-over-42-day-detention/452675/2 "2008-06-12T13:41:10Z")

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Oh, bold certainly. It’ll get a lot of attention and the bigger a hammering the government gets over this 42-days nonsense, the better.

But brave? I don’t know. If you look at the last General Election results in Haltemprice and Howden in [2005](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haltemprice_and_Howden_by-election%2C_2008) (Davis won by 5,000) and consider that the Lib Dems aren’t even going to field a candidate, the chances of Davis not being re-elected are around 0.

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-davis-resigns-over-42-day-detention/452675/3 "2008-06-12T13:46:49Z")

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I think it’s brave because, unlike a General Election, all eyes are going to be on him. If he slips up, or has a skeleton in his closet, it’s going to be curtains.