The normally slippery character that is Keith Vaz has suggested that Gary McKinnon, who hacked into US Defense websites, should be given a job by the Government rather than be extradited.

The intelligence that enabled the Asperger’s sufferer to hack into American military computers could be put to good use, according to Keith Vaz.

Quite.

Mr Vaz, who is chairman of the home affairs select committee, repeated his call for Home Secretary Alan Johnson to let Gary stay in Britain – although Mr Johnson claims he does not have such power.

Alan Johnson is one of our despicable ones. If he doesn’t have the power, then something stinks. Who does have the power over British people? Perhaps he is confused about the one-sided extradition treaty where a US citizen is worth more than a Brit.

And Michael Howard has just blogged, “We must replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights.”

David Cameron proposes to replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights.

Nice sentiment, but that all rather depends on what Cameron does about the EU.

I hope that David Cameron renews the efforts of the last Conservative Government to persuade the European Court of Human Rights to increase the extent to which it respects the right of member states to decide these matters themselves.

I’m afraid that’s not part of the agenda, so Mr Howard, please campaign vigorously for a total withdrawal from the EU and then we can have that British Bill of Rights and anything else we want with our rediscovered freedom.

So then, sensible ideas from both sides of the House. What next? Ed Miliband admitting that the earth has always had natural cycles of warming and cooling? Or Alex Salmond coming clean that an ‘independent’ Scotland controlled by Brussels would be a disaster?

Imagine if we could trust politicians to tell us the plain and simple truth…