Where Art Thou Madeleine?
Despite initially claiming that they would remain in Portugal to clear their names, it’s being reported that the parents of Madeleine McCann are now flying back home to Britain.
It is worth noting, I think, that the McCann’s have effectively been on an extended holiday without work (no doubt on full pay,) for the past one hundred and twenty nine days since their daughter mysteriously disappeared from their holiday hotel room in the Algarve..
Public media criticism of the McCann’s has often been muted and condemned by others. Being both NHS Doctors, the many see the family as beyond criticism because they must automatically be good people if they work for the National Health Employment Bureaucracy.
However, for example, if one of your children had just been snatched from your hotel room, would you then keep a constant eye on your other children or would you place them in a local Portuguese day-care centre with a bunch of complete strangers while you searched for your ‘missing’ daughter? Needless to say the McCann’s chose the latter.
If it does eventually turn out that Gerry and Kate McCann in some way killed or contributed to the death of their daughter, then there are going to be a lot of very angry people throughout Europe. As it stands, it would be unprecedented if Madeleine were found alive and well, and it appears increasingly likely that she has been murdered – though I thought that right from day one, because unfortunately they usually are in these cases.
Back in 1945, Winston Churchill, then still Prime Minister, made the supposedly heavily criticised claim that if the Labour Party won those elections, they would ‘fall back on some kind of Gestapo’ to subjugate and control the electorate.