Lockerbie & Occam’s Razor

So, I’ve got this correct, the initial reaction to Kenny MacAskill’s decision to free the Lockerbie bobmber was that this demonstrated nothing but the SNP’s provincialism. Small-toon politicians desperate to make a mark on the international stage and all that. Now we’re told that it was all just about grubby, if lucrative commercial interests and that London was quite happy to see al-Megrahi repatriated, whether on compassionate grounds or as a consequence of the Prisoner Transfer Agreement agreed with Libya.

It’s possible that both of these theories to be partially true. However, if the Westminster government really did want to see Megrahi sent home to Libya, it’s quite possible that the SNP ministry in Edinburgh would have done everything possible to frustrate London. Now that would have been a piece of grandstanding MacAskill could really have got his teeth into. Hamming it up for Scotland and for justice and the memory of the 280 people killed at Lockerbie and all the rest of it.