I saw this on the BBC news and spotted you discussing it on the Open Thread and felt it deserved further attention.
Gordon Brown has been exposed thanks to the Sunday Times as being the man who personally vetoed Libyan pay outs to the victims of IRA terrorism. Libya shipped Semtex and arms to the IRA for several years from 1985. Lawyers representing British victims have evidence that the Semtex was used in a series of IRA atrocities, including the Enniskillen bomb of 1987, the Manchester bomb in 1996 and several explosions in London. However Gordon Brown has deemed it “inappropriate” that the UK enter into discussion with Libya on this issue.
After horrendous media headlines and more to come, the u-turn has been executed by McDoom and the BBC carries a (almost smiling) image of Brown stoutly declaring that he now backs the bid for IRA victims to gain some compensation from Libya.
The entire tone of this BBC item spins in favour of Brown.
The facts of the matter are that Brown was quite prepared to betray the British victims of IRA terrorism, just as he has been quite prepared to betray the victims of Pan Am Flight 107. The sheer duplicity of Brown is quite breathtaking but yet the BBC does what it can for their man. Deplorable.