Fun Online Poll Results: we told you so!

Jack Straw spoiled it all by openly admitting that al-Megrahi's release was part of an oil deal:

When asked in a Daily Telegraph interview last night if trade and BP were factors, Straw said: "Yes, [it was] a very big part of that. I'm unapologetic about that… Libya was a rogue state. We wanted to bring it back into the fold. And yes, that included trade because trade is an essential part of it and subsequently there was the BP deal."

But he said he made the decision without conferring directly with Brown adding: "I certainly didn't talk to the PM. There is no paper trail to suggest he was involved at all."

Eighty per cent of us had assumed that this was the case anyway, so that poll is now otiose, I guess.