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Originally Posted by Damien
Well first of all it's improper to grant Diplomatic Asylum anyway so Ecuador could be said to have rode roughshod over diplomatic protocol. It's also not proper to grant asylum for people on the grounds they face investigation for sexual assault.
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That would be a issue for Britain and Ecuador to sort out
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However abiding by our own laws is not against diplomatic protocol no matter how many times people assert it to be so. Ecuador will be fully entitled to defend themselves in court if we took that route, which we haven't yet.
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Even if we did go in and arrest him i think there would be an army of lawyers running to the EU courts contesting the legality of the arrest and tieng it up for years
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Finally if we do ignore Assange then we're breaking our legal obligation to Sweden. We we're in a catch-22 situation. I don't think we should let someone accused off sexual assault go without facing investigation because we're scared of a diplomatic row.
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we would only be breaking our legal obligation if he was on British soil and since he isn't then we have no obligation legal or otherwise .
Of course we are forgetting that this all comes under the responsibility of william hague i believe so anything could happen
