APPEASERS OF TERRORISM TRYING TO AIRBRUSH LOCKERBIE
Posted by Caledonian Jim in Daily Posts
Detectives have launched a fresh enquiry into the Lockerbie bombing (pictured above) following the decision by convicted terrorist murderer Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi’s to drop his appeal against his conviction. Families of British victims have been advised that police are following several new lines of inquiry, including a review of forensic evidence into the 1988 bombing. A total of 270 people were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the town of Lockerbie on December 21 of that year. It is understood that the Crown Office in Scotland has informed relatives via email of plans for a new investigation.
Now call me cynical, but what is the real reason for re-opening this case ? Could it be that criticism is going to mount against the legal authorities in Scotland and the UK the longer Megrahi lives, with questions being increasingly asked as he doesn’t die whether he should have been released on compassionate grounds ? And won’t it be so convenient for some of the appeasers of terrorism who let him go in return for oil to be able to point to alleged doubts about his original conviction as further grounds for that craven release ? There’s not normally such enthusiasm for righting legal wrongs within the establishment, unless the powers that be are under pressure. I fear it will prove to be the same in this case too.
Bedraggled, depressed and exhausted UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown (pictured above), stuck his neck out yesterday by stating categorically that the British economy would be growing again by Christmas. With economists and the government depressed and disappointed by last Friday’s figures showing that the country is still in in the grip of a recession, Mr Brown tried to go back on the offensive by telling people they would not have long to wait for a recovery. The PM is obviously counting on nothing untoward happening in the future that might suddenly push the recovery off the rails, but it was unusual for the usually cautious Gormless Gord to be so definitive. Mind you, although he said Christmas, he didn’t say which year !
More New Labour shallow electioneering and futile posturing. This time, employers will be expected to offer more part-time jobs for working parents under a major shift in government thinking on family life. The move is likely to provoke an outcry from business and accusations that ministers are not taking into account the financial burden of extending workers’ rights during the recession. Another in the seemingly endless line of banal female incompetents within the government, the Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper (pictured above), wants companies that advertise full-time posts in jobcentres to consider opening them up to job sharers or part-time workers. And senior ministers are reportedly also considering proposals to extend flexible working laws – which allow parents to ask only their current boss if they can reduce their hours – to future employers. That could permit a woman applying for a new job to ask first about changing her hours to fit school runs, for example. Considering this government has spent the last 12 years deliberately destroying traditional family life, how heartwarming that they are now all for it by means of unaffordable spin as the election approaches.
In the UK an influential think-tank, supported by the government, will today urge £150 billion of new green taxes on businesses and households — including a £3,300 levy on new cars. The recommendations from the Green Fiscal Commission (GFC, above), to be presented by Lord Turner, head of the committee on climate change — and chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) — could bring a drastic reshaping of the tax system to curb greenhouse gas emissions and encourage investment in low-carbon technology. Among the proposals are a tripling of fuel duty over the next decade, a household energy tax, and the hefty tax added to the price of every new car. Are we seriously going to listen to this eco-fascist nonsense, articulated by a man who has already made a complete balls-up of the FSA ?
The UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband yesterday gave his strong backing to Tony Blair (pair pictured above) and the latter’s candidacy to be the first permanent President of the European Union, saying that Europe needed a leader who “could stop the traffic”. In an interview with the BBC, Mr Miliband said that a Blair presidency would be “very good for Britain as well as very good for Europe” and said the leaders of other European countries “can’t quite believe” why so many in Britain were against Blair having such a senior European role. Mr Miliband also ruled himself out of the other high-ranking post created by the Lisbon Treaty, High Representative for Foreign Affairs, saying: “I am not a candidate for that. I am not available.” So the Foreign Secretary, a close personal ally of Mr Blair, doesn’t want a cushy top job in Europe after the electorate here kick him out next year ? Bollocks.
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