The Lib Dem leader has an article in this morning's a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1203572/NICK-CLEGG-If-drag-McKinnon-America-come-back.html"Daily Mail/a on the failure of the British government to prevent the extradition of Gary McKinnon to America.br /br /After a little purple prose - "doomed to pass out the rest of his days in shackles on a foreign shore" - and a good nationalistic point:br /blockquotepYou can be sure that if the situation was reversed, American politicians would be moving hell and high water to protect one of their citizens from such a gross injustice./ppIt is an affront to British justice that no one in the Labour Party has the courage to do the same./p/blockquotehe puts the boot in on Gordon Brown's government very nicely:br /blockquotepYet this case is about more than legal technicalities and political treaties. It is about compassion, knowing the difference between right and wrong - and the sorry truth is that the Labour Party lost its moral compass long ago./ppIt tried to stop Gurkhas who were prepared to die for Britain from having the right to live here. It is embroiled in allegations of complicity in torture of British citizens abroad./ppAnd now it shows no sympathy for a man with an autistic spectrum disorder who committed his crimes on British soil, confessed to British police, and simply wants the chance to face up to British justice./p/blockquoteAnd well done, incidentally, to Nick for getting into the Daily Mail. Its the paper that many of our voters read.br /br /Too often these days attacking the Mail serves as a substitute for political thought on the left.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-4312488958529029275?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div
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