Eddie Barnes - Brown butts in on Burma, so why not Scotland?
GORDON Brown is "both saddened and angry" at the decision. He believes that it showed that the authorities were "determined to act with total disregard for accepted standards of the rule of law and in defiance of international opinion".
Has the Prime Minister finally broken his silence over the fate of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi? No. That was the Prime Minister talking earlier this month about the sentencing of Burma's opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi. It seems that when the Burmese judicial system acts, it's the PM's business to make his views known. But when the Scots system does, it isn't.
Amid all the conspiracies about why Brown is refusing to say what he thinks about the decision to release Al-Megrahi, could the truth be a little more mundane? What if, as with Aung Sang Suu Kyi, Brown agrees that Al-Megrahi should indeed be allowed home? Prezza thinks so. The Church of Scotland thinks so. So might the PM also believe in a "compassionte" decision? Not that he can say so, seeing as Scottish Labour has come out four-square against it.
All idle speculation, but until Brown makes his views known, that's all we're left with.
Has the Prime Minister finally broken his silence over the fate of the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Al-Megrahi? No. That was the Prime Minister talking earlier this month about the sentencing of Burma's opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi. It seems that when the Burmese judicial system acts, it's the PM's business to make his views known. But when the Scots system does, it isn't.
Amid all the conspiracies about why Brown is refusing to say what he thinks about the decision to release Al-Megrahi, could the truth be a little more mundane? What if, as with Aung Sang Suu Kyi, Brown agrees that Al-Megrahi should indeed be allowed home? Prezza thinks so. The Church of Scotland thinks so. So might the PM also believe in a "compassionte" decision? Not that he can say so, seeing as Scottish Labour has come out four-square against it.
All idle speculation, but until Brown makes his views known, that's all we're left with.
Labels: Al Megrahi, Eddie Barnes, Gordon Brown
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1 Comments:
Of course he should say. If we can know his views on the Arctic Monkeys and BB, we should know what he thinks about Megrahi's release.
But perhaps George Galloway is right in his oddly whimsical comment in the Record, and Gordon is struggling with the knowledge that poor Kenny is actually Labour's Manchurian Candidate.
Oh, can we have a blog please please on Jim Kelman's latest blast at the 'Scottish literary establishment'?
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