Another Initiative

David Davis spoke yesterday in reply to the governments latest attempt to deal with extremism,

"It took seven years to deal with Abu Hamza. Seven years in which the Government constantly offered excuse after excuse about not having sufficient laws to deal with him. Eventually he was convicted under eleven counts using legislation almost 150 years old. After initially dithering, the authorities were eventually embarrassed into taking action against those who incited hatred during the Muslim cartoon protests - again using existing legislation. It is long past time the Government stopped talking and started to show some resolution. They should use the laws we already have – including the offences of incitement to commit murder and racial hatred – to actually deal with those who preach hate. The laws we already have to combat extremists could be effective - if only the Government had the guts to use them.”