Obviously the three Natwest bankers being extradited to the US have used their in-house travel department as on Thursday they are to be whisked off to sunny Houston where they will face charges over an alleged fraud. The lucky chaps will be escorted on the flight by US gun toting marshals, no doubt to protect them from some crazed passenger who might spoon them to death with a plastic utensil. They will then be fast tracked through immigration and given some new clothes as a welcome present. Personally orange boiler suits have never been my thing but I am sure that they are all the rage at The Houston Federal Detention Centre, their home for the next two years.
If John Prescott can get a Wild West outfit for helping US billionaire Philip Anschutz get a casino licence what do you reckon Tony Blair will get for signing away all our rights to the US. He does of course have the congressional gold medal to pick up that he was awarded for being a “staunch and steadfast ally” and for his “outstanding and enduring contributions to maintaining the security of all freedom-loving nations.”
What “security” in which “freedom loving nations” might this be?
Iraq? Methinks they are having just about as much freedom as they can handle and it is about as secure as a brown paper envelope in the San Siro, so it can’t be them.
The U.K.? Our citizens can be extradited to the US for trial without any evidence being presented against them and the UK has no reciprocal rights over US citizens. In good old blighty a banker gets 10 years for making false loans whilst a paedophile who kidnaps and sexually assaults a three year old gets six.
So it looks like it has to be America then. No wonder the P.M. is too embarrassed to pick up the award, some three years later. It must even stick in his smug craw that every time he utters the words “special relationship” he gets bitch-slapped by Bubba Bush.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a prime Minister who worked for us and wasn’t on a bit of work experience from the US before riding back there into the sunset for the $100k a pop lecture circuit. Sadly though when he does go it looks like we will get Gordon the Grinch. The man who took a nice wealthy girl called Prudence and turned her into a drug addled slapper intent on melting daddy’s platinum credit card. What a choice. Being the 51st state or an impoverished province of Scotland. This is not a time to give up alcohol!
Harry what about the financial markets? I hear you ask. Well as I heard on the radio today from that lovely chap Darren Winters: “ Let me tell you why now is one of the best times to invest in the stock market.” Yes I’ve been away for two years and it looks like some people are still talking b******s.
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