Levitt marked as '100% authoritarian' on Lib Dem Voice

The Liberal Democrat website 'Lib Dem Voice' has set up a ranking system for all MPs which assesses how authoritarian they are based upon their voting patterns for key legislation over the last 5 years. The categories are below:

Freedom of Speech, ID Cards, 90 days detention, Abolition of Parliament Bill, Trial without a Jury, MPs' Expenses (FOI exemption), Control Orders, Extradition Act 2003, Government intervention in collection of evidence, DNA database

You can find the results page for Tom Levitt here. In all of these 10 categories, Tom Levitt scores 10, giving him a score of 100, the maximum possible.

Levitt writes to Private Eye

Apart from the press release he published after the Private Eye/Nestlé story, Tom Levitt has written to the satirical magazine, and they published the letter in the latest edition (Eye 1257). It reads as follows:

HP Source

Sir,

So, that Tom Levitt is to jump into the Nestlé nest when he leaves parliament (HP Sauce, Eye 1256). Pints of Buxton Water and four-fingered fair trade Kit Kats all round?

When do you think they will tell me about it?

Keep up the Good work.

TOM LEVITT MP

Buxton

At this stage, it's all at the level of a joke between friends, but I suppose we'll see.

In the meantime, there's another story which has links to Levitt which has been in and out of Private Eye over the past few weeks, and we'll be back in due course to cast a glance over that.