Time to go, Gordon. The British don’t want you leading them any longer. You have brought enough shame on us already. We can’t take anymore. You were never elected to lead us, anyway. Oh, and by the way, it is seventy years now that the long-suffering Brits had to put up with Chamberlain. He went, eventually; and has a special place in world history – as the great appeaser. You, too, Gordon, will have a special place in world history. You’ll be known as the unelected Prime Minister who traded oil for justice, let down 270 innocent victims of the Lockerbie disaster, did shady deals with a tinpot dictator, and chose a ‘special relationship’ with Libya over our staunch friend and ally, the United States of America. – © Mark
THE SUNDAY TIMES: GORDON BROWN personally vetoed an attempt to force Colonel Muammar Gadaffi to compensate IRA bomb victims because it might have jeopardised British oil deals with Libya.
Documents passed to The Sunday Times reveal how the prime minister took a close interest in a campaign to secure payouts for the 2,500 families of those blown up by the Libyan-supplied Semtex explosive used by republican bombers.
However, Brown refused to help the victims because of government concerns that putting pressure on Gadaffi might lead to Libya withdrawing co-operation over trade and the war against Islamic terrorism.
The documents will cause embarrassment for Brown as he faces new questions over the early release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi.
In a further damaging twist, Jack Straw, the justice secretary, was last night accused by the Tories of misleading the public over the prime minister’s role in talks about the decision to free the terminally ill Libyan terrorist.
The Sunday Times has established that Straw wrote to Brown warning the Libyans might block a multi-million-pound BP oil deal unless the bomber was released. The disclosure contradicts remarks Straw made in a newspaper interview published yesterday in which he insisted there had been “no paper trail” to No 10.
Campaigners claim the official letters about IRA compensation highlight the government’s preoccupation with trading relations with Libya at the expense of bomb victims. >>> Jonathan Oliver, David Leppard and Hala Jaber in Tripoli | Sunday, September 06, 2009
