Time to abolish devolved government in Great Britain.

So if the yorkshire ripper, or ian huntley etc etc get cancer should they in turn be realeased on compassionate grounds? ronnie biggs after doing the dispicable crime he did in the 60s and flaunting his escape in the public eye has been moved to a care home. right or wrong moraly its wrote down with in scotish law,be he the lockerbie bomber or the villian who commited a fri night murder whilst drunk, compassion,and thats what sets most people above the likes of them.

“Wow you’re thinking for yourself in this thread? Amazing! I’d have thought you’d be part of the pro-release camp like Ruby”

I always think for my self

Sorry I’m being a bit unfair there. By ‘Scotland’ I’d like to make it clear I am solely referring to its parliament and ultimately whoever agreed to the release of this evil monster. I am certainly not referring to the Scottish people as a whole, who I am sure are probably as sickened by his release as we are.

All with the exception of Ruby who thinks he’s innocent of course, which is obviously just a sick wind up to try and shock us.

Now if I were a conspiracy theorist……….

On the 3rd July 1988 the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air 655 killing all 300 passengers and crew. The wreckage fell into Iranian waters.

On 21 December 1988 a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103 killed 259 passengers and crew over Lockerbie, along with another 11 on the ground.

In 2001 Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi was sentenced for the bombing,he is now to be released on compassionate grounds.

Nearly six hundred people have died because they did not count in the power play between two States.

Everytime someone mentions Lockerbie, they never include the timeline from the Vincennes.

Three Hundred Iranian families shed as many tears as did Western Families.

I personally think the UK government knows that this man is innocent, and that the US government knows that this man is innocent, and the Libyan government knows it too. It is pretty certain that the Iranian government also knows this. So, is Megrahi innocent? Having quite seemingly made al-Megrahi a scapegoat for political power-broking, and imprisoned him not only as a sop to the families but also to stop people asking awkward questions, I think that the least that we can do is let the poor bastard go home to die, if he wants to.

As for Scotland, sooner they are independent and the English are shot of them the better :D/

@bassingbourne55 wrote:

I always thought devolution was good, but independence bad. But the SNP-led Scottish govenrment has brought shame on Scotland and embarrassment to Great Britain. If the Westminster government has the power to dismiss the current Scottish government, which is really a glorified form of local government that we, in England, are denied, then it should do so.

I agree totally, we should have intercepted the decision before it was made. I campaign heavily for a Yorkshire Assembly. I believe in localized government, I’m a firm supporter of devolution – that includes historic counties of England.

It seems a bit unfair to me, that the first inch of power we give to the Scottish, they use it to release terrorists upon the world.

Yet because Yorkshire wants local power to make decisions such as protection of our countryside against greedy Capitalist developers who want to bulldoze it to over-populate the area… we’re denied it.

The Lockerbie bomber has nothing to live for. He is more of a danger now than he was before, you just know he’s going to strap a bomb to himself and go out in a blaze of glory.

And if he does, Scotland should be sanctioned economically and its “government” punished for its crime. Aiding & abetting terrorism.

Devolution – yes. But there should always be a higher power that can intercept on behalf of the British Isles as a whole. A high court.

We should roll back the House of Lords back to its traditional standing and give back its powers to intercept on decisions such as these that could pose a danger to national, and world security.

As for compassionate grounds – did he show any compassion for the people he murdered in cold blood? Did he heckers. Shame on Scotland for spitting on his victim’s graves. This is a shame that Scotland will carry on her shoulders for a long time.