South Georgian Gitmo

The USA is extremely fortunate that they have the use of the Guantanamo Bay site, allowing undesirables to be squirreled away safe from the prying gaze of do-gooders, journalists, politicians and pansy pinko hand-winging liberals bleating about human rights.

But Britain does not have such a location.

Yet.

It would be good to have somewhere to put those of questionable loyalty and dubious motives, where they can be stored in controlled conditions and asked difficult questions until bits drop off their bodies.

Ideally, such a place would be barren, utterly isolated and inaccessible, effectively uninhabited, and a valueless desolate wasteland.

However, Norwich City Council have raised the usual objections.

But their remains South Georgia. <link>, a little bleak lump of rock in the south Atlantic. Best of all, "the European Convention on Human Rights does not apply".

Now, Common Law might ... but if the island is declared a UK Sovereign Base, then it comes under the Army Act, which trumps just about everything.

All that's needed are a few flatpacked sheds for the inmates and a shipload of concrete, posts, and razor wire. Accommodation for the staff would of course be of the most luxurious kind.

No more expensive court hearings, no more judicial reviews, and a few days of living off raw penguin should rapidly convince any waverers to either spill the beans or die.