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Originally Posted by Chris
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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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.
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i think we "south of the border" are quite familiar with devolution and how it works Chris we get it rammed down our throats every time Scotland wants to play at being a country
in this case G brown should not have left such a huge descision like this to a second rater like kenny macaskill who only speaks for a very small part of the uk
The original "deal"was to make anybody convicted serve their sentence in Scotland it should have been adhered to or a new trial held if their were doubts as to his guilt not this stupid compassionate grounds flimflam.
So Chris you can "run along now" back to your "devoluted"country secure in the knowledge that the Scottish justice system has just let a mass murderer out of jail and probably secured an enormous propaganda coup to one of the worlds most hated men
Interesting to note also that Gaddafi has thanked the british gov aswell as the scottish so now tell me Brown wasn't involved