It’s been 4 days since we witnessed the uncomfortable raid and arrest of shadow UK immigration minister Damien Green.

The last time I remember something surreal like this was in October 2002 when the Police Service for Northern Ireland raided the offices of Sinn Fein at Stormont in Belfast.

Marching like stormtroopers, the officers rushed the imperial seat of government two -by-two, climbing the marble staircase, the click-click of their boots on the polished floor reminding me of the Gestapo in old black and whites, parading cobbled streets in Berlin, investigating treason and espionage attacks against the Nazi Party.

The metropolitan police say they arrested Mr Green on suspicion of “conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office” and “aiding and abetting, counselling or procuring misconduct in a public office”. When they questioned Mr Green they are said to have suggested to him that he had not “simply received leaked” information but had “groomed” a civil servant to pass it to him.

Amongst the leaks include a private email from the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith choosing not to publicise that licences had been granted to as many as 11,000 illegal immigrants working as security guards, a memo to Home Office minister Liam Byrne in February this year that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons and a letter to Downing Street in which Jacqui Smith suggests there could be a rise in crime if there was a recession.

Speculation continues. Some Tory MPs think it has something to do with the grudge between Boris Johnson and the outgoing Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair.

Opposition leader, David Cameron was livid, believing it breaches civil liberties, ‘for making public information that the government didn’t want to be made public.’

A valid point, afterall, now that we’re in a recession and ‘there could be a rise in crime’, would it not be better for us all if resources were sunk into freeing-up 11,001 jobs for legal immigrants and then ‘accidents’ like this might not happen.

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