The population of Lockerbie live in the country that allowed the individual found guilty of the bombing of PanAm 103 to return home. If they wanted to speak, perhaps they should have raised their voices earlier.
They did speak. At the last general election and in 2005 the SNP trailed in 4th with 10.8% and 9.1% of the vote respectively. In the last Scottish elections when the SNP trashed the other parties they came third in the constituency that Lockerbie sits in.