David Martin

Engineer, political anorak, Ayrshireman, enjoys maple flavour bacon. Voted Yes in 2014.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

22 YEARS LATER AND NOBODY HAS ANSWERED FOR WHAT HAPPENED TO DR DAVID KELLY

His name was Dr David Kelly. Most people have forgotten him. They shouldn't.

He was a quiet, mild-mannered scientist who spent his career inspecting weapons facilities around the world.

He knew more about Iraq's arsenal than almost anyone alive.

In 2003, Tony Blair's @InstituteGC government published a dossier claiming Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical weapons within 45 minutes. That claim was used to justify a war.

Kelly knew the intelligence behind it was being exaggerated. He said so, privately, to a @BBCNews journalist.

That one conversation destroyed his life.

The government found out he was the source. Instead of protecting a man who had served his country for decades, they quietly let his name reach the press. He was publicly identified, dragged before two parliamentary committees, and grilled by his own employer.

His wife said he came home a broken man.

On the afternoon of 17 July 2003, he left his house for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside. He was 59 years old. He never came back.

His body was found the next morning in woodland. A knife beside him. A blister pack of painkillers nearby.

Here is where it gets worse.

Tony Blair personally intervened to replace the normal coroner's inquest with a private inquiry run by Lord Hutton.

The original inquest was suspended before it even properly began. It was never resumed. To this day,

Dr David Kelly is the only person in England and Wales in living memory to have died in unexplained circumstances without receiving a full coroner's inquest.

Lord Hutton concluded suicide. Case closed.

Except eight senior doctors and a former coroner wrote to @thetimes saying the verdict was medically unsafe.

The wound found on Kelly's wrist, a severed ulnar artery, would not cause fatal blood loss in a healthy person.

There were no fingerprints on the knife. The painkillers found were not in a quantity that experts considered lethal.

The government's response, delivered by Attorney General Dominic Grieve in 2011, was essentially: the Hutton Inquiry was good enough, stop asking questions.

Think about that. A man quietly raised concerns about the biggest political deception in modern British history, a war that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He was publicly exposed, professionally destroyed, and found dead days later and the government personally made sure there would never be a proper independent investigation into how he died.

Tony Blair went on to become a Middle East Peace Envoy. He has a knighthood.

Dr David Kelly got a private inquiry, a rushed verdict, and a sealed post-mortem report that was not released to the public for years.

Nobody was ever held accountable. Not for any of it.

This story should be on the front page every single year. Share it if you think it matters.

Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @thetimes @PrivateEyeNews

[Medusa lay @LayMedusa]

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[David Martin @DavidInverisla]

@Scott_Wortley Voodoo economics..

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

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[David Martin @DavidInverisla]

@ProudofusUK @Scott_Wortley Conflating England and UK. Fud.

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party .

Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

[Bela Lugosi's Shed @OpulentNetOtter]

@BBCScotlandNews So a petrol station not running out of fuel is big news for the BBC, but a Labour MPs husband being arrested for allegedly being a Chinese spy while said MP tried to shag two Nuclear Submarine commanders isn't?

[David Martin @DavidInverisla]

@80_mcswan I must misunderstand this question. Logically, there is zero point in choosing blue. Everyone who chooses red survives 100%.

[Jamie Stoddart @JamieStoddart]

@mypalfootfoot7 @poloandsons The full exchange is better

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

[David Martin @DavidInverisla]

@MerrynSW Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.

[Dave Llewellyn Boom Boom Tel Aviv @TheIndyNinja1]

@ginadavidsonlbc It wont be because of Alex Salmond . It will be because of what they did to him.

[David Maddox @DavidPBMaddox]

Just pointing out that I broke the story 7 months ago that Mandelson failed vetting from the security services and put it to Downing Street...so the idea that Downing Street only found out on Tuesday is complete nonsense.

https://t.co/9Zp14BGCoD

[David Martin @DavidInverisla]

@80_mcswan Swithering about voting SNP on constituency. Fortunately have ISP and ALS on the list. Voting til i boak, with Reform last.

[Mossgiel Organic Farm @MossgielFarm]

We’ve just started working with three organic farms in the north of Scotland.

All three were at risk.

One had already lost their contract. Two others had been told their milk wouldn’t be collected anymore.

Not because they were doing anything wrong - but because the system no longer works for farms like them.

So we stepped in and asked them to collaborate with us.

And they said yes.

This is the biggest step we’ve taken so far towards building something better - not just for Mossgiel, but for small dairy farms that deserve a real future.

But here’s the reality…

With these farms now on board, we have more milk than we’re currently selling.

Which means what happens next matters.

If more people choose Mossgiel, we can support more farms like these.

If they don’t, we can’t.

But, the one reality is - we’d have done none of this without YOUR support. You made this happen, because without you we’d never have got off the ground.

THANK YOU!!
Bryce

[William Brown @Brown666W]

When will @BBCScotlandNews @STVNews be deploying camera crews to East Kilbride to hear what voters think of their MP caught up in drunken shenanigans at a nuclear base while married to someone under investigation for spying for China. Recall petition anyone?

[David Martin @DavidInverisla]

@msm_monitor @IreneWilson_ 2 million SNP votes. 2 seats. Might be better to try something diffferent. I ceratinly will.

[David Martin @DavidInverisla]

@jbceltic7604 Hmm, 2 of my kids are at uni in Scotland. Fees paid. Another has already graduated. I doubt I'd have been able to afford paying if they had gone elsewhere.

[David Martin @DavidInverisla]

@JamesKelly It is hilarious tbat Sarwar is bottom of the poll.

[Depressed Oracle Red Bull F1 Fan Account @FlyoutChase]

its actually wild that you can kill close to 200 school girls and still host the World Cup