The posthumous pardon crew are working on Admiral Byng now. Thankfully the MOD seem uninterested at the moment, but if the pressure stays they will cave as always. After this I say we start a pardon effort for Guy Fawkes. Clearly he was a fall guy for bigger fish and deserves a pardon as well. For more on Byng, who has a case to be made even though it is long since time to get over it, see here.

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