At his press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Brown said:
I was both angry and I was repulsed by the reception that a convicted bomber guilty of a huge terrorist crime received on his return to Libya.
When I met Colonel Gaddafi over the summer I made it absolutely clear to him that we had no role in making the decision about Megrahi’s future.
Because it was a quasi-judicial matter, because it was a matter legislated for by the Scottish parliament and not by us, it was a matter over which we could not interfere and had no control over the final outcome.
Whatever the decision that was made on compassionate grounds by the Scottish parliament our resolve to fight terror is absolute.
It is the ‘Mandy style’ quote, “angry and repulsed” that will get the headlines.
Will it be enough to silence the critics for Brown? Maybe. We shall see. But he could have said the above much earlier than today and damaging headlines would not have happened. For that he only has himself to blame.
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He tried too hard to convince us he wasn't lying by not blinking, but he gave himself away at the end of that "repulsed and angered" sentence when he made up for lost time. Psychologists say this a trick employed by habitual liars so have another look if you can at the blinking, fluttering eyelids of the liar, Brown!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Sky News cut away to another piece of film while he was saying that bit!
ReplyDeleteHmmm. I watched the clip on the BBC website. I am not sure about the blinking. One thing. He looks knackered after his weeks away. Maybe he has been staying up late to watch The Wire.
ReplyDelete"When I met Colonel Gaddafi over the summer I made it absolutely clear to him that we had no role in making the decision about Megrahi’s future." - So Gaddafi lobbied him, Mandy met Gaddafi's son, the unfortunate Scot got lent on; and hey presto jubilation in Tripoli. Condemnation all round though, for a decision that was absolutely nothing to do with British jobs for Libyan workers!
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