Released sailors tell of ordeal

Royal Navy personnel seized by Iran were blindfolded, bound and held in isolation during their 13 days in captivity, the crew have said.

We are glad to have them back. To all those people on various blogs and comment pages who have congratulated the Iranians for the way they behaved during this incident and the way in which they treated the captives, I hope you pay close attention.

The same sort of rhetoric that came from Iran allowing you to feel so secure in your cosy world where there are no bad people just "misunderstood ones" has been shown for what it is.

Everyday the threat from these groups grows stronger and stronger and yet you act as apologists and sympathisers for their cause.

Throughout the Middle East barbaric acts are being carried out; men, women and children are being murdered on a daily basis and you apologise and say it is because the perpetrators have themselves been treated badly, are misunderstood, it is not their fault .......... and so on.

Perhaps this incident and the glaring differences between the Iranian account and the account of the victims will finally open your eyes to what is going on.

Reading the comments on the MODERATED BBC page it is clear that a lot of people have the view that the treatment of the Navy personnel is quite justified compared to the treatment by the Americans to those held in Guantanamo Bay.

You are no longer just misguided, you are no longer just an embarrassment to the rest of us, in the war against terrorism, you are traitors.

Iranian Ordeal

Navy personnel to be released from captivity.

It truly is excellent news that the 15 members of the British Navy who were illegally seized by the Iranians in an act of war on the United Kingdom are to be released.

I have already read on several comments pages on the MSM and on several blogs that this act vindicates Blair's Governments cowardly stance on the whole affair.

Maybe we will truly continue to see peace in our time through appeasement and the rewarding of terrorists and rogue states. Who knows what is in the wind, 25 years since the Falklands and new calls for a return of the Malvinas to Argentina along with the "renegotiation" of ownership of oil rights in the region.

Britain under Blair and Nu Labour has become like a wounded animal, let's hope that are friends in the EU can keep the wolves at bay!

After all, with 80 odd percent of our laws coming from them and such a large net contribution from our economy, I am sure they will be only too pleased to speak up and act on our behalf, just like they did during this latest crisis. Didn't they?

Independence for Scotland

For a while now we have been displaying the Union Jack (good

enough for me) on the side of the page and wondering whether 300 years of Union would outlast 10 years of Nu Labour.

Looking forward to the Scottish Assembly elections it seems

entirely feasible that the breakup of the Union may indeed be a distinct possibility.

It strikes me as ironic that a Government hell bent on forcing integration on the British public cannot even claim the successful integration of the English and Scottish people after 300 years!

Still, as an Englishman who has seen his country ravaged under Nu Labour, having seen my taxes being used to pay for services that are available only in Scotland I have changed my mind. As simple as that. If the majority in Scotland want independence, and at the same time remove Nu Labours mandate in England and Brown' "right" to be Prime Minister, then fine.

Goodbye and good luck.