Tony Bowler

Everton fan. Socialist. Politicians my arse, Give peace a chance,
COYB.

[Tony Bowler @TonyBowler12]

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[Tony Bowler @TonyBowler12]

Should’ve been a yellow that

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

ROBIN COOK QUIT OVER A WAR DIED ON A SCOTTISH HILL AND THE CASE CLOSED BEFORE TEA TIME

Robin Cook spent his career being right at the worst possible time for his career.

In March 2003 he resigned as Leader of the Commons rather than back the Iraq War. His resignation speech got a standing ovation from MPs on all sides, something that had never happened in the chamber before.

He spent the next two years telling anyone who would listen that Tony Blair had marched Britain into a war built on nothing.

Two years later he was dead.

6 August 2005. Ben Stack, a remote mountain in Sutherland. Cook collapsed of a heart attack while hillwalking with his wife Gaynor, fell down a ridge, and was airlifted to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, where he was pronounced dead within the hour.

The post mortem two days later gave the cause as hypertensive heart disease. Police on the scene treated it as a medical matter and that was the end of their involvement.

No inquest reopening. No criminal inquiry. Just a senior politician who had publicly humiliated the government over an illegal war, dropping dead in one of the most remote spots in the country, with the official file shut almost as fast as it was opened.

Norman Baker, the Lib Dem MP and later Home Office minister who spent years digging into the death of weapons inspector David Kelly, said in 2007 that Cook had been on Ministry of Defence linked land when he died and that he had real doubts about the official account.

He got called a conspiracy theorist for asking the question. Funny how that label only gets handed out to the people asking questions, never to the people refusing to answer them.

Then there is the bit nobody mentions enough. Starting in 2020, someone filed Freedom of Information requests with Police Scotland asking for the basic details of that day.

What time officers were alerted. Whether witnesses were interviewed. Whether the people who came to help Gaynor Cook were ever identified. Police Scotland refused. The case went to the Scottish Information Commissioner, who in 2021 and again in 2022 sided with the police and let them keep it sealed under a legal exemption.

So twenty years on, the basic facts of how a former Foreign Secretary actually died on a hillside are still officially none of your business.

That is not evidence of a murder BUT it is evidence of an institution that would rather you stop asking than ever have to answer.

Britain does not need conspiracy theories when the real story is this embarrassing on its own.

SOURCES
@HeraldScotland - Norman Baker doubts over Robin Cook's death
@FOIScotland - Decision 074/2021 and Decision 011/2022, Police Scotland FOI refusals on Robin Cook case file
@policescotland - original statement treating death as a medical matter
@BBC - Robin Cook resignation speech

[Tony Bowler @TonyBowler12]

@ogrady1878 Never been relegated in my 65 years but worried now. Whom would want the job? Duncan? Wayne? Tim? In all them years only ever won something with ex player as manager Catterick Kendall Royle. So step in those 3 for me, go down fighting at least re invent big Joe's dogs of war

[Tony Bowler @TonyBowler12]

@GaryLineker I'm now a Morocotonian just willing them to win it.

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@UtilitaEnergy Boxing Day

[Tony Bowler @TonyBowler12]

@DaveBowler8 And on top of that fortune they all receive the £66 a month to help heat their mansions. They could take that all back from that lot, give it to the health workers instead. They demonstrate in China Iran and we sit on our arses. Just call an election now

[Tony Bowler @TonyBowler12]

@UtilitaEnergy @IcelandFoods I am a man on his own, have all the ladies in my road feeling sorry for me, useless male that I am they take it in turns cooking my meals, I call them Tony's Coven, In the very unlikely event of me winning I would treat them all to a lovely meal bought from Iceland to say thanks

[Tony Bowler @TonyBowler12]

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[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

“The King has asked me to become Prime Minister because this nonsense has gone on long enough.”

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Last year, BT made £1.3bn profit. Shareholders received £761 million. The CEO enjoyed a 32% pay rise.

Meanwhile, workers were told to accept a real-terms pay cut during a cost-of-living emergency.

Solidarity with BT and Openreach workers on strike with @CWUnews today.

[Rosie Holt @RosieisaHolt]

MP explains how mini-budget & trickle down economics is like “watering a garden. Selectively”

[Tony Bowler @TonyBowler12]

@BBCFLauraKT This man should be labour leader full stop he'd win the next election

[Tony Bowler @TonyBowler12]

Cost of living payment update for people who didn't get the £326 https://t.co/TCXzeGAORP

[Tony Bowler @TonyBowler12]

Good news me thinks, no more getting arrested for protesting with a blank A4. Here is the deterrent I'm told, just glad I'm staying home the weekend, Prince Harry for King has just been binned in next doors bin, after I cleaned my dabs and DNA from it. stay home save life's