Molly Mockford said:
> At 13:07:36 on Wed, 26 Aug 2009, David Kilpatrick 
>
>>Wait until next week. I was at Holyrood yesterday. They had an 
>>emergency meeting of the parliament the day before, but decided against 
>>taking any votes. Our daughter line-manages the reporting teams, and 
>>says that next week when the parliament is back from recess there is 
>>every possibility of a censure motion against, or a vote of no 
>>confidence in, MacAskill. Will be overtime for the parliamentary report 
>>team getting every last word correct.
>>
>>Stable door/horse etc but this issue is about to divide the Scottish 
>>Parliment like nothing before.
>
> Maybe so - but the song is not about that, in any way at all.  It is a 
> nasty little revenge fantasy, presumably written out of outrage that 
> compassion should be ever shown, and with a knee-jerk, unquestioning 
> assumption that somebody convicted of a crime must necessarily be guilty 
> of that crime.

Is that not the issue, that a lot of voices are being raised saying that
that's how they feel ?

(compare and contrast with Ronnie Biggs, if so inclined.)


Ah, unless you mean the way that bigger countries expect the Scots to humour
them ...


> I can't help wondering whether there will be companion songs written 
> about the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven.


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