I think they were being cynical, that the UK is the US's lapdog and so UK courts do whatever the US says. However this cynicism is misplaced. UK courts don't gi

I think they were being cynical, that the UK is the US's lapdog and so UK courts do whatever the US says. However this cynicism is misplaced. UK courts don't give a fuck about what even the UK government policy is (see today's ruling on third runway at Heathrow), let alone foreign government policy.