Michael Heseltine on Britain's "special relationship" with America

This week’s Question Time was interesting listening. It was fantastic to see the Liberal’s show their contentiousness towards devolution when it benefits and to see Harriet Harman refuse to answer a simple question whether she herself or her government would have released Almagrahi.

The highlight of the show without a doubt was the fantastic point made by Michael Heseltine regarding Britain's "special relationship" with America (in the context of discussing of the release of the accused Lockerbie bomber):

"I find it pathetic that we go on talking about a special relationship, this is the most naive delusion fostered on this side of the atlantic, hardly ever mentioned on the other side of the atlantic, if America has a special relationship, it is with Israel... but the idea that Britain ranks above all others, well cast your minds back to the IRA terrorism when we begged them to stop the cashflow to the IRA in this country, minister after minister after minister, but the money kept coming.”

Michael Heseltine is indeed an extraordinarily great politician with a wealth of experience, so who better than to dispel the notion of a “special relationship” between Britain and America than Mr Heseltine?

To watch the full rhetoric just click here where you will be brought to the exact time: http://bbc.co.uk/i/n0p0l/?t=9m35s