Amid all the fog and confusion surrounding the release of al-Megrahi, it’s refreshing to see the former deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, giving his own cool assessment of the affair:
“It’s clear that there are other issues … which the PM has been asked about, and he answered yesterday that governments always have difficult decisions to take.
“This was clearly one, without getting into the arguments of whether this man was guilty or innocent. The courts found him guilty, it’s on compassion grounds, under the legal system he is now being released.”
Says it all, really.
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Is he taking over Mandy’s job? Can’t turn on the TV or open a paper without seeing his face & hearing a sound bite from him.