Even when your peers find you innocent, the barmy, the awful and the ugly seem hell-bent on getting their men! Of course I’m talking about the so-called airline plot. The Jury failed to convict anyone of conspiracy to detonate explosives on an aircraft, but found some guilty of conspiracy to murder and other offences.

So who is barmy? Well none other than our politicians who can’t, it seems, let go of the war on terror mantra. Rather than admit that they messed this whole thing up by being the poodle of America, they would make all of us suffer and waste perhaps another £10m! And I thought we were in a recession?

The awful - well they have to be the police and their ‘leaks’ and interviews to the ‘evil-overlord media’ where they express their ‘astonishment’ or ‘bewilderment’. Why can’t you accept that the evidence you gathered did not convince the Jury? Instead we get comments by the old terrorism supremo Andy Hayman – who said that he had to resist “severe pressure” to stop the search in the woods which had already totalled £10m! But the best bit has to be the police’s own ‘turf’ wars between different forces and ‘clashing egos’ of chief constables!

Finally, the ugly has to be the CPS. Sir Ken Macdonald said the CPS should apply for retrial “on every count the recently discharged jury failed to agree upon”. What, just for the sake of it? At least tell us why you feel there needs to be a retrial?

Personally I feel the reason why the CPS (I believed pressured by the government) is pushing for this retrial is that the current verdict blows the government’s entire ‘war on terror’ mantra and its CONTEST strategy out of the water! After MI5 said that being religious and practicing Muslim is a better safeguard against extremism, the government cannot afford to lose this argument too!

Of course, now we will get even more ‘scare’ stories about these pesky muuzleems who want to ‘end us all’! Not to mention the airport restrictions!

The lesson here is: if at first you fail – try again with a different jury. Maybe Ed, Majid and Rashad should apply!