Madeleine McCann

This story has become political following the decision of the Met with the support of David Cameron to investigate Madeleine's disappearance. There seem to be any number of people who think that it is wrong to give the McCann's any help for threes reasons, first because the McCann's are getting special treatment, second because Cameron is giving the support in order to curry favour with the electorate and third because of the cuts to police numbers the money would be better spent elsewhere. Jenny Jones, the Green Party member of the Greater London Assembly, believes all three reasons but a cynic might say that she is exploiting her own politics of envy by her somewhat staged anger statements. This also seems to be true in the case of the Labour Assembly member Lord Harris. Funny isn't it that no Tory or Lib Dem member has complained about the assistance the Met is now going to give. The McCann case is one which caught the imagination of the public like no other modern kidnap case. My view of the case started off as one of scepticism of the McCann claims but has over time changed to one of belief in the story Madeleine's parents have told. We all like happy endings and it would be a great feather in the cap of the Met if they can solve the case. Helping to try and find out what happened will also make us feel good about ourselves and remind us that from time to time we can act like the good Samaritan who after all could only help one victim even though he must have known of others. Does one really turn down giving help to one victim because you cannot help all victims? A flawed logic in my view.