Has Britain finally become a franchise of the USA? This week, Home Secretary Charles Clarke agreed to extradite to the States three City whizz-kids, who are implicated in the Enron accounts-fiddling affair. That is three British people accused of a crime carried out in Britain being sent to face a 35-year jail term in the US if convicted. Perhaps if Condoleezza Rice asks him nicely, Charles Clarke will roll over to have his tummy tickled, too.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Rant of the Week
From Recess Monkey's column in the free newspaper The London Line:
Worse than that it isn't a crime in Britain.
ReplyDeleteThus US sovereignty tops UK within the UK>