Would You Settle For £1?

[jake-the-peg]

If you were tortured would you settle for £1?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287711/Abdel-Hakim-Belhadj-Kidnapped-Libyan-politician-suing-Government-torture-claims-offers-settle-case-3-apology.html

Should they accept this offer?

[emmie]

doesn't it say 3 quid...

[emmie]

this is what it says,

Last night, Mr Belhadj's supporters at Reprieve, the human rights group, said he would drop the legal case in exchange for a £1 payment from each respondent as well as an apology and admission of liability.

i doubt they will take him up on it..

[Baldric]

///Last night, Mr Belhadj's supporters at Reprieve, the human rights group, said he would drop the legal case [i]in exchange for a £1 payment from each respondent[i] as well as an apology and admission of liability///

[jake-the-peg]

Do I really have to repost this as 'Would you settle for £3' ?

Really?

[emmie]

no but the headline actually says 3 quid.

[emmie]

if i were the government i wouldn't take up the offer, nor i suspect will they.

[ludwig]

He's not exactly doing them a favour though is he? He's still suing them.

He must be making the offer because he doesn't think he'll win the case.

[Gromit]

The British Government would have to pay him the nominal sum of £1 not £3. The other £2 is from other respondents.

The Government should accept the offer and save us the £millions fighting it. They are probably guilty anyway.

But they won't / can't. Such an admission would be deeply embarrassing and politically damaging. So we will waste £millions and everyone will know we are guilty anyway.

[DangerUXD]

tell you what i'll pay him a fiver! just give me the sc ac!

[emmie]

gromit, so they are guilty are they, proof please.

[Gromit]

// He must be making the offer because he doesn't think he'll win the case. //

Or he does not want money and it is the principle he is fighting for.

[ludwig]

// But they won't / can't. Such an admission would be deeply embarrassing and politically damaging. So we will waste £millions and everyone will know we are guilty anyway. //

This is politics in a nutshell. It's how all governments work.

[DangerUXD]

sorry but was it not the americans that "tortured" this chap? Why is he suing us? Is it now a rule generally that anything bad that happens is blamable on the British?

[ludwig]

// Or he does not want money and it is the principle he is fighting for. //

Ha ha - good one.

[Gromit]

Em10

I cannot offer proof, as that is for a court, but the 'evidence' that is in the public domain points to M16 knowing he was about to board a plan for London (they had approved it) and then telling the US who arrested him and handed him to Gadaffi.

// It emerged on Monday that MI6 had been able to tell the CIA of his whereabouts after his associates informed British diplomats in Malaysia that he wished to claim asylum in the UK. Belhaj was then allowed to board a flight for London and abducted when the plane called at Bangkok.

There were signs that the discovery of a cache of secret MI6 and CIA documents at an abandoned government office building in Tripoli was triggering panic in some parts of Whitehall.

The papers detail the UK's role not only in the rendition of Belhaj, but in that of a second man, known as Abu Munthir. This operation appears to have been planned by British and Libyan intelligence officers without any CIA involvement. //

[emmie]

it looks like he had already been offered money, a not inconsiderable sum?

[emmie]

but you said that we are probably guilty, without the benefit of first hand knowledge.

[sandyRoe]

Would the bigger sum come with a stipulation that he kept stumm?

[Gromit]

And the absurdity of it all is that he was an enemy of Gadaffi and was fighting to overthrow him. If we had have let him, we could have saved the expense of getting involved in another costly war.

I am shocked that you all seemed to be supporting us handing Gadaffi people to torture.

Shouldn't you a least be having a go at Jack Straw and Nooo (that's how you spell it) Labour for getting into bed with Gadaffi?

[emmie]

seems some contradictory evidence of his past life... Tortured or not can't see Jack Straw being made to apologise or pay up, whatever the amount.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14786753