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Why do I find myself wondering who will recognise this bog's musical reference in the title? On the other hand, I apologise to everyone who's got here because they were searching for The Parliaments, George Clinton, or Roger Taylor. You're welcome to read on, thereby losing several valuable minutes of your life, but music chats end here and political rant is welling up inside of me as I write...

The thing is, the USA wants some of our politicos to go and testify at the US congressional enquiry into BP's involvement in... well, pretty much anything they can hang on them I think... Anyway, our guys are all refusing to go and the congress guys don't understand why, and I think I might be able to help.

First there's the Scots. They're kinda proud of being an independent nation, someone from the USA asks them to appear at an enquiry into something that they've already had an enquiry about back home their response isn't really that surprising. No. They're an independent nation and they're not leaping on the next jet just because the most powerful nation in the world wants them to. Now if it had been their idea... And of course the leader of the Scottish government, Alex Salmond, has suggested that he would be prepared to go and speak for all the other Scots that the congressmen actually want, but they didn't want him. I suspect they're remembering the last time a bolshy bloke with an unrelenting Scottish accent attended a congressional enquiry, and the unlikely hero George Galloway took them apart. Not by actually answering their questions, I should add...

Then there's the British government, and a bunch of English guys that the committee also want to speak to. These guys don't have any of the Scots' pride in their nation, in fact they're proud of the fact that unlike all the other nations, the English have no need to be proud of their nation, they know, despite any worthless proof to the opposite, that England is Top Nation, and they know that the rest of the world, no matter how hard they may try to prove otherwise, know it. They would have no problem with being obliging to the former colonial wallahs in the USA.

Under normal circumstances.

Unfortunately the USA decided to deny Britain's Top Nation status, which it, of course, only has by dint of being a bunch of other countries partnered by England (Remind me to blog on the differences between the UK, the British Isles, Great Britain, Britain, England, Ireland, Eire, the Isle of Man, Scotland, and the one Tom Jones comes from one day).

Where was I? Oh yeah. We were having an inquiry of our own a while back. The Iraq Inquiry. We requested the attendance of certain citizens of the USA. They refused to come.

And that's it. If congress wants to know why no Brits want to come to their Lockerbie enquiry, it all comes down to this...

Who's Top Nation now, eh?