Libyan Health Service - Best In The World

He was wasting away from prostate cancer in a Scottish prison hospital, so the Scottish government, in a shady deal involving the Foreign Office, Lord Mandelson of Sleaze and flatulent nutcase Gadaffi's son, released the only convicted Lockerbie bomber on 'compassionate' grounds. He had an absolute maximum of three months to live, after all, said a couple of hired quacks. The poor man would have become an ex-bomber by the end of October 2009, so we were told (and didn't believe). Sorry to quote myself, but this was me back in November (three months after the Megrahi release):

Al-Megrahi: the convicted Lockerbie bomber might still not be dead as all the Labour stooge doctors and this Labour government ghoulishly promised everyone he would be (he's a full five days overdue now), but he's still about to come back and haunt at least one of them. Yes, you guessed it, the King of Sleaze himself, Lord Mandelson of Tripoli.

Now we learn from a number of sources that six months on, Megrahi is not only still alive and free, but he's actually recovering - and free. Clearly, something is amiss. Instead, however, of branding this whole, stinking affair a web of deceit motivated by a Big Oil deal and reaching right up to the highest levels of the British government, let's just praise the Libyan Health Service. Megrahi's almost miraculous cure in the capable hands of Libyan doctors offers pretty conclusive proof that Libyan health care is comfortably the best in the world.

Toby Young, however, is rightly livid about the whole, grubby, insulting episode, just as everyone else should be. He also argues - and I think this is very important - that Megrahi's conviction was absolutely safe, according to a relative of a victim who understandably took a very close interest in the trial.

Given the fact that Megrahi is a convicted terrorist, and given that thanks to these legendary Libyan healthcare professionals, he's now on the road to recovery, isn't it nearly time for him to be put right back in jail? We could even settle for a Libyan jail.

I suspect that that wasn't part of Mandy's backroom sweetener BP deal, however, so I won't be holding my breath.

Truly sickening.

Megrahi: Still Not Dead - Meanwhile Banks Rejoice

Al-Megrahi: the convicted Lockerbie bomber might still not be dead as all the Labour stooge doctors and this Labour government ghoulishly promised everyone he would be (he's a full five days overdue now), but he's still about to come back and haunt at least one of them. Yes, you guessed it, the King of Sleaze himself, Lord Mandelson of Tripoli.

Incidentally, this partridge shooting party thing of Lord Rothschild that Mandelson attended with, among others, Saif Gaddafi - I can't help but wonder whether there is any connection between this and today's "Supreme" Court ruling enabling banks to continue legally to steal however much they like from customers that their extortionate, punitive charges turned into debt slaves in the first place. After all, at least one of the judges was a Rothschild banker.

The point is that wherever you look there's some sort of Labour shadiness going on - or has been going on- so often with Mandelson right at the very heart of it. Be it Iraq, Afghanistan, the economy, the banks, education, health, PFI, Europe - the list is seemingly endless.

If and when we kick these ruinous crooks out, the Tories will have to uncover anything and everything about Labour's record of betrayal and deceit, however damaging it might appear potentially to be to the reputation of the country. Hiding it will only cause the rot to creep ever further. Revealing the truth about these long years of Labour corruption and sleaze is the only way gradually to draw Britain out of shadows into which it has been cast by the worst government it has ever had inflicted upon it.

Governments Have Fallen For Far Less

For far less than the worsening Megrahi scandal, that is. If this Sunday Telegraph article and this Sunday Times article, which confirm all our worst suspicions about Brown's role in this appalling affair, do not rock his immoral, dishonest government to its very core, I think, as I've said before, that something is very, very wrong with Britain.

Brown, ably supported by his snake-like political double dealers, Mandelson and Straw, has brought shame and infamy on this country thanks to the decisions he took. The Eden government fell because of Suez, ostensibly an honest if flawed intervention which angered the Americans and jeopardised world peace at a time when it was already fragile.

But Eden never lied to the people about his role in the actions of his government; Brown has. Eden never misled the public about the motives for those actions; Brown has. Eden, above all, was a man of integrity and honesty; Brown most certainly is not. We have all the evidence we will ever need to know that fact now.

It is also the reason why, unless he is pursued to the ends of the earth for his lies about the travesty of justice and source of such humiliation for Britain that is the Megrahi release, he will not go.

So yes, there is something very, very wrong with Britain. Its name is Gordon Brown.

Synonyms for "Liar"

Thousands of synonyms, euphemisms and collocations are used every day to describe that odd human tendency to tell porkies. This excellent Speccy post opts for that well-varnished old standard, the reflexive verb-phrase applicable to all those who are either confused, are trying to mislead or are forced to change their stories under pressure: "to contradict oneself". The person "contradicting himself" in this case is, surprise surprise, rodental arch Labourist, Jack Straw.

One question that arises from the publication the Lockerbie documents is why Jack Straw suddenly decided against excluding al-Megrahi from the PTA? Straw justified his change of heart on the grounds of "overwhelming national interests", though trade and commercial interests were not a contributing factor in that calculation, a point he reiterated last weekend. But, in an interview with the Telegraph today, Straw contradicts himself:

'"Yes, it (trade deals with Libya) was a very big part of that (including al-Megrahi in the PTA). I'm unapologetic about that. Libya was a rogue state. We wanted to bring it back into the fold and trade is an essential part of it - and subsequently there was the BP deal."'

This revelation lends credence to Saif al-Islam's insistence that Megrahi's release or transfer was always a pre-condition of UK Libyan agreements, and undermines Straw's, David Miliband's, Lord Mandelson's and Gordon Brown's righteous indignation about being accused of 'double dealing'. Once again, there are more questions to answer about this whole case.

If I "contradicted myself" over anything I did professionally, I'd be out of a job (eventually). Then again, I suppose if every politician that lied - or "contradicted themselves" - was fired for it, we'd have no politicians. Now there's a thought...

The point is not to get caught. Brown and his useless ministers (like this Straw man) have been lying and lying and lying since Day 1 of their seizing power in '07 - and they've been getting caught all the time. Why hasn't this government fallen yet? It's a fair question.

I can only conclude that something really is wrong with this country. I wonder what it is.

PS: Any reader out there who hasn't already seen it will want to know that Barking Spider's post on rat Straw's lousy squirming over the terrorist-for-oil scandal is really excellent.