Perhaps Green knew about other, much more serious stuff, perhaps the govt just want to scare whistleblowers. Who knows? He should avoid taking walks in any woods for the next five years. Or climbing on board any yachts.
Has anyone considered that this could be a security services/ police attempt to undermine the (to them, extremely unpopular) Government? Or else, the surface machinations of some kind of turf war b/w the police and the SS (Security Service aka MI5)? It is so outrageous and heavy-handed that the Conservative Party is guaranteed to come out of it smelling of roses and civil liberties - and the likelihood of any charges arising are remote.
This government have done so many, frankly evil, things that I am loathe to question further evidence of its authoritarianism - and it remains possible, indeed probable, that this is simply more of the same. I'm being somewhat ridiculous here, I know. But this escapade seems bizarre. It is certainly not merely a police cock-up, as one commentator in The Guardian inanely has suggested. There is absolutely no way the police would arrest a senior shadow minister just through incompetance.
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