Labour never attempted to engage in the issue, and completely ignored the strong advice of 15 academics from four law faculties, four departments of political science, and three departments of history across all our universities. We even had lifelong members of the Labour Party pleading for their MPs to support the bill, in vain, and the extent of Labour's argument to retain the law was simply "We got the numbers." They may well have used Michael Cullen's phrase: "We won. You lost. Eat that!" They used their majority on the Justice Committee to block giving the committee evidence and free and frank advice, because they know as well as anyone that they would have mirrored the criticism from all the legal academics. There is nothing in the eight pages of the select committee report where Labour attempts to justify their position, and it does show how arrogant Labour has become. 