Well, now things really are getting colourful. Both John Kerry and Ted Kennedy are so close to Gordon Brown that he has been known to borrow their Martha’s Vineyard houses for his holidays. If Kerry had won in 2004, then Brown would have been Prime Minister by February 2005, resulting in a third Labour landslide.
Their and their allies’ intervention over Lockerbie more than suggests that Brown, struggling to explain to anyone abroad (or most people here, come to that) how this is anything other than his decision, regards Kenny McAskill, of whom he had probably never heard, as having gone feral. So he has made a couple of transatlantic phone calls. “McArthur or whatever your name is, you’ll really matter when you can do this”, he is saying.
Meanwhile, dropping the appeal is a colossal mistake. Release now would call into question the integrity and reliability of the Scottish judicial process. Is that a cause to be championed by the SNP?
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Bizarrely the signatories of the letter to the Scottish Justice Minister are the same folks who actually wanted the release of terrorist prisoners in "Northern Ireland".
ReplyDeleteA double standard, I think.
How many Americans did they kill? And it was before 9/11. But you are right, of course.
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