Thursday 16 November 2017

Hardly A King's Ransom

£450 million is only very slightly more than the profit that the Royal Mail made in its last year as a public company. We should have paid that princely sum to the Iranians, to whom we undoubtedly owe it, 38 years ago, or at the very latest 16 years ago, when the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled definitely that we ought to do so.

Now, however, it will look like a ransom payment for the return of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Someone sufficiently prominent ought simply to have turned up in Tehran and refused to leave without her. Indeed, that ought still to happen. Jeremy Corbyn would be ideal. But anyone with a high enough profile would do.

2 comments:

  1. I wish you were an MP, you would already have done this. Maybe on your speedboat, "Here's what you could have won". But seriously, you'd have done it.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. You know what? I would have done it. During the recent recess, I would have flown to Tehran and refused to leave without Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

      Delete