The Caledonian Mercury.

[Saorsa1]

Just tuned into The Daily Retard site to see what BritNat propganda is being spewed out :

Devine, 57, of Bathgate, West Lothian, formerly MP for Livingston, is accused of wrongly submitting two invoices worth a total of £5,505 for services provided by Armstrong Printing Limited.

Of course, the article (quite a long report for the reading-challenged Daily Retard reader), doesn't mention once that it's a Labour MP nor does it allow comment on the behaiour of this MP by the other parties.

If it had been an SNP MP, all we would have seen was, SNP this and SNP that and no quotes from the SNP but rather the BritNat drivellings of their feeble minded MPs.

It's outrageous:

suggested title for thread : It's outrageous!

[Saorsa1]

As the BBC piles up ever higher its mountain of pro BritNat bias, we see here from Newsnet Scotland Alex Salmond patiently dealing with the antagonistic BBC Newsnight interviewer about the Lockerbie Megrahi BP business.

BBC presenter 'speaking nonsense’ over Megrahi release

Gavin Esler, normally quite like him but I found this interview too partisan.

[Saorsa1]

A comment from a poster on Newsnet Scotland :

I have just posted this comment to the New York Times:-

"The NYT is recognised throughout Europe as the journal of note of the United States of America for its journalistic integrity and it refusal to bow to those who would attempt to use the media to promulgate their own political and commercial agendas.

"In recognition of this, and with the greatest of respect to its readers, I wish to say that those who would attempt to implicate the Scottish Government in any deal negotiated by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Tony Blair) with the ruthless dictator Gaddaffi to release Mr al Megrahi from a Scottish prison know nothing of the political situation within the UK and underestimate the strength of feeling in Scotland with regard to the Lockerbie atrocity.

"Politically, the ancient nation of Scotland is dominated by the 10 times larger and equally ancient nation of England within the United Kingdom of England and Scotland (i.e. the UK). However, when the parliaments of the two countries were combined in 1707, Scotland and England retained their own judicial and educational systems.

"From 1979 until 1997 the UK was governed by the Conservative Party of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, a party with hardly any mandate from the people of Scotland. Indeed, in the election of 1997 which brought the Labour Party of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown to power, the Scots expressed their revulsion for the Conservative Party by returning not one Conservative MP.

"When Pan Am Flight 103 was brought down over the small border town of Lockerbie in December, 1988, fire crews raced from our major cities 60 and 70 miles north to try to help. The local rural police force was overwhelmed by the scale of the catastrophe and it soon became clear that all on board and many on the ground had perished.

"However, locals observed that, within two hours of the explosion, American security service personnel were on the ground searching for evidence. Where had they come from and how did they get there so quickly and didn't they realise that they were contaminating a crime scene? What were they looking for? They never found out the answers to these questions because Margaret Thatcher refused to hold a public inquiry into the disaster.

"Over the following years it was revealed (by the US and UK security services) that the prime suspects in the case were thought to be a Syrian group acting on behalf of Iran in retaliation for the shooting down of an Iranian airliner by the USS Vincennes over the Straits of Hormuz in July 1988. All the shared intelligence and evidence supported this view. Then, in the run-up to the first Gulf War, the USA required the support of Syria and it was decided to implicate Libya, at the time a pariah state, as the source of the Lockerbie bomb.

"At the trial of Mr Megrahi and his co-accused Mr Fahima at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, the three Scottish judges were presented with a highly selective subset of the evidence against the two accused and the defence team were prevented from seeing all of the evidence gathered (a requirement under Scots law), including evidence that would have freed both accused. Those who have been appraised of this evidence, including the majority of lawyers practising in Scotland, are of the opinion that the Iranians and Syrians and not the Lybians were responsible for the Lockerbie bombing.

"On the election of the Scottish National Party as the Government of Scotland in May, 2007, a tension arose between the Scottish Government in Edinburgh and the UK Government in London. The Scottish Government refused to have anything to do with the Prisoner Transfer Agreement (PTA) signed by Tony Blair (UK Prime Minister) and the Libyan Dictator Gaddaffi. Blair (an English trained lawyer) failed to understand that the PTA drafted under English law was inapplicable to Scotland. Gaddaffi, who thought that a deal signed with Blair would open the way to commercial transactions with BP, was none the wiser.

"When Mr Megrahi was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer, two consulant urologists and two consultant oncologists working in Scotland pronounced that he was dying. A request was made under the terms of Scots Law that Mr Megrahi should be released to die at home with his family. An English oncologist was hired by the Libyan Government to confirm the diagnosis. Mr Megrahi was released on the grounds of the original four specialists' diagnosis and was flown home to Tripoli where he is now undergoing terminal palliative care.

"The explosion of the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico while under the ownership of BP and the subsequent environmental disaster have prompted certain American senators currently seeking re-election to look for a link between BP and the release of Mr Megrahi.

[Saorsa1]

Thought I'd post this, clear and precise.

Anyway, see you all in a couple of weeks as I'm off on holiday.

Soon.

[wullie m]

Good Post Saorsa, the principal witness at the trial, who remembers Megrahi purchasing an item of clothing three years before! has been spirited away to Oz by the US authorities and set up in a nice wee no-worries lifestyle. wullie m

[hiorta]

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