Press Releases & Updates 2003

Lloyd Quinan will not pay fine and will risk arrest at Really Big Blockade

MSP Lloyd Quinan, who has been found guilty of a breach of the peace at the blockade of Faslane naval base in February 2001, will not pay the £100 fine and will be willing to risk arrest at the really Big Blockade of the base on 22nd April.

Both police witnesses at the trial today in Helensburgh District Court stated that Lloyd had caused them no alarm. Indeed one officer said that the arrest had been the "most co-operative he had ever made." and the other said that the MSP was "a very nice gentleman." In spite of this Justice of the Peace John Macphail decided that a breach of the peace had taken place.

Six MSPs (Lloyd Quinan, Robin Harper, John McAllion, Tommy Sheridan, Fiona McLeod and Linda Fabiani) have already indicated that they will be at Faslane on 22nd April, just one week before the elections to the Scottish Parliament. There will also be a significant European presence with busloads from Finland, Sweden, Germany and Ireland.

David Mackenzie said: "People are really sickened by Tony Blair’s hypocrisy over weapons of mass destruction. Candidates for the Scottish Parliament should take note that the assault on Iraq and the threat from our appalling nuclear arsenal will be high on the agenda at the May elections."

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