Letters: Hidden agendas

IN HIS latest attack on the SNP government, Alexander McKay states that the SNP was seeking something on the constitutional front from the UK government, in terms of the transfer of firearm laws and compensation for slopping out, for the release of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi (Letters, 9 February).

The problem with this allegation is that while the hypocrisy of the Labour government has now been fully revealed, working behind the scenes for the Lockerbie bomber's release, there is not a shred of written evidence that the SNP was seeking such a deal.

If Mr McKay knows otherwise I, like many, would be grateful to see his proof.

Alex Orr

Leamington Terrace

Edinburgh

FOR the past year both opposition Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray and his sidekick, justice spokesman Richard Baker, have been speaking with forked tongues when they say that Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi would be still in jail in Scotland had they been in power.

We now know both former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were "actively and discreetly" involved in the "deal in the desert" with Libya's Colonel Gaddafi to facilitate the bomber's release.

The new Labour motto can now be revealed: "Saying one thing in public and doing the opposite behind the scenes."

Donald J Morrison

Haig Street

Portknockie

Buckie