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    Tony Blair, crook (reprise)

    So it seems that the SFO did break the law in deciding to stop investigating fraud in the BAE / Saudi Arabia affair.

    Any chance of anyone in government taking this the least bit seriously?

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    Tony Blair, crook (reprise)

    Hahahaha

    Good one

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      #3
      Tony Blair, crook (reprise)

      The ruling is astonishing, though. It's not just that they broke the law, but the judges are saying, almost word for word, that the government and SFO cravently capitulated to the mildest bit of international blackmail and we can now expect every country to try it on with us.

      From the Guardian report


      "So bleak a picture of the impotence of the law invites at least dismay, if not outrage," they said.

      "Had such a threat been made by one who was subject to the criminal law of this country, he would risk being charged with an attempt to pervert the course of justice."

      To give in so easily, the judges said, "merely encourages those with power, in a position of strategic and political importance, to repeat such threats, in the knowledge that the courts will not interfere with the decision of a prosecutor to surrender".
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      The judges had harsh words for the attitude of the SFO and the Blair government in never even considering the option of telling the Saudis their threats would be ignored.

      "Noone suggested to those uttering the threat that it was futile, that the United Kingdom's system of democracy forbad pressure being exerted on an independent prosecutor whether by the domestic executive or by anyone else; no-one even hinted that the courts would strive to protect the rule of law and protect the independence of the prosecutor by striking down any decision he might be tempted to make in submission to the threat."

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        #4
        Tony Blair, crook (reprise)

        one of the judges, Lord Justice Moses
        That is a fantastic name for a judge.

        And the Saudis are cunts. No arguments allowed.

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          #5
          Tony Blair, crook (reprise)

          All of them? Every single last one of them?

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            #6
            Tony Blair, crook (reprise)

            Maybe not the guy who scored that goal against Belgium . . .

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              #7
              Tony Blair, crook (reprise)

              Yeah, I think 'all of them, every last one' is a fair working assumption as regards the House of Saud, until powerful evidence is provided to the contrary.

              Obviously though, that doesn't apply to all inhabitants of the state formerly known as Hejaz-Nejd.

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                #8
                Tony Blair, crook (reprise)

                Apologies, I probably jumped in over the top there. Still thinking about a stupid lunchtime row with a workmate who said pretty much that about Romanians because he saw a Romanian beggar. He wasn't afraid to tar all their people with the same brush though.

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