You know, I didn’t like Sir Ian Blair until he started locking up Tories.  Shame to see him going now, really…

A political row erupted last night after counter-terrorism police arrested the shadow Home Office minister, Damian Green, after he published leaked documents allegedly sent to the Tories by a government whistleblower.

An angry David Cameron condemned the arrest as “Stalinesque”, after Green was taken into custody at about 1.50pm in his Ashford constituency and escorted to a central London police station.

A Tory source said: “David Cameron is angry.”

I’d love to see that.  I bet his silly little voice gets all squeaky and his chubby little cheeks go all pink.  Does plasticine melt when it gets hot…?

George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, told the BBC: “To hide information from the public is wrong.”

Quite right, that man: you should never try to hide embarrassing stuff.

Now Gideon Osborne (for that is George’s real name – he just hides the fact) is, of course, a former member of the Bullingdon Club, the “exclusive” drinking club comprised of wealthy Oxford undergraduates who go around kicking in (other people’s) chairs and knocking down (other people’s) tables for laughs.

That’s the same Bullingdon Club of which his chums Posh Boy Dave Cameron and Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson were also members.

(Oh, and that Nat Rothschild chap: he’s the one with the fantastically popular yacht.)

The same Bullingdon Club that somehow persuaded the photographers Gillman & Soame (the copyright holder) to withdraw permission for the reproduction of the group photograph of 1986 Bullingdon members showing Posh Boy Dave and Boris in full Buller costume.

In March 2007, the photographers’ line was that it had taken a “policy decision” not to allow any school photographs they own to be published.

Of course, if Gillman & Soame had copyright issues in March 2007, you have to wonder how this…

…ended up in the Daily Mail a month later.

Not to mention in The Times and Daily Telegraph.  And probably every other newspaper, too, if only I could be arsed to search for it.

Young Gideon is on the left of the photograph looking like an extra from Brideshead Revisited.

That’s the fella!  Devilishly handsome, isn’t he?

Not – you understand – that Posh Boy Dave has anything he wishes to hide from the public.

Oh, no.

I mean, it’s not like the man who would be Prime Minister won’t even answer a simple question about his drug use, is it?

The upshot is that, while Damian Green’s arrest was ridiculous, I’ll take lessons in freedom of information from this particular morally bereft bunch of Tories when the Leader of the Opposition is prepared to allow the electorate to see photographs of precisely what he got up to when he was 19 years old.

And tells the world when he last did blow…

PBD and Gideon interact with some proles, yesterday