Broon silent over Lockerbie

Peter Brookes - The Times - August 25

In recent months Gordon Brown has revealed to us his opinions about the deaths of Jade Goody (“saddened … she was a courageous woman both in life and death”), Michael Jackson (“very sad news … thoughts are with Michael Jackson’s family at this time”) and on the emotional well-being of the Britain’s Got Talent star Susan Boyle (“I spoke to Simon Cowell and to Piers Morgan and wanted to be sure she was OK”).

Yet when his own nation, Scotland, decides to release the only man found guilty of the biggest single act of mass murder ever to take place within the United Kingdom, what do we hear from Gordon Brown? Five days of silence followed by little more than a squeak. The alleged author of a book entitled Courage has once again shown his complete lack of this essential element in political leadership.

So begins Dominic Lawson in his column at The Independent on Gordon Brown’s strange silence over the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

Lawson continues to berate the Labour government for it’s actions. Let us be clear the Scots are taking the heat for Whitehall and Downing Street. Given that Labour detest the SNP, Labour probably could not be happier, but to return to Broon, Lawson writes later in his article:-

We are now informed that because Gaddafi had ignored a Gordon Brown letter (beginning “Dear Muammar…”) requesting that Megrahi’s homecoming be “sensitively handled”, our Government has now asked Prince Andrew to stay at home playing golf instead. While we may laugh at Gordon Brown’s pathetic belief that Colonel Gaddafi does sensitive, his approach underlines the absurdity of the entire episode. The mass-murdering agent of a maniacal dictator is released after eight years so that he can die in peace and at home (the end so horrifically denied to his victims) – and the only concern of Gordon Brown is that the PR is handled well by the Libyan authorities.

Brown aided and abetted by Mandelson really is appalling. Plus he really seems to want to upset the Yanks. This was a political act directed by Brown and his people, for God knows what reason.

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