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Originally Posted by martyh
seriously Chris i didn't think you were that naive ,this whole saga has politics smeared all over it imo it had nothing to do with true justice just finding a scapegoat to apease the relatives (who weren't as daft as the gov hoped)and getting on making under the table deals with Gaddafi
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Sorry ... how about you run along, read up on Scottish devolution and what it means, and then pass comment when you have at least a slender grasp of the subject.
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Originally Posted by Moldova
Would you trust Brown or the Dark lord not to have bent his ear when it involves billions in oil from Libya?
I for one would trust them not to have meddled about as far as I could throw Libya.
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If they were stupid enough to try, it would have made no difference. Except that it might have given the SNP some valuable political ammunition with which to beat the Labour Party.
Really, you lot south of the border need to go and read up on how devolution works in Scotland. We have a real parliament here that makes real laws and real ministers with real executive responsibilities. Justice issues like these are simply not in the remit of any London-based minister, they are in the hands of Scottish Ministers in Edinburgh who answer to the Holyrood parliament, not Westminster.
No matter what G. Brown and Co. think about the release of Megrahi, it wasn't their decision to make or to influence and attempting to get involved would have been political suicide, in Scotland at least.