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[David @davidandmeli]

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[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

[David @davidandmeli]

@thameswater Please contact me urgently after you took £700+ from my account without authorisation before I report fraud to my bank

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Here are 4 things that happened to the UK in the last 24 hours:

1. The Labour government confirmed it will remove the right to a jury trial. Cases will be tried by a judge alone.

2. The Labour gvt confirmed it will impose Digital ID despite it never being included in Labour's manifesto and nearly 3 million Brits signing a petition against it.

3. The Labour gvt confirmed we will "align" with the European Union, directly going against the 2016 democratic vote for Brexit & forcing the British people to pay billions for laws they'll never be able to influence.

4. The Labour gvt confirmed that while Islamist sympathisers & antisemites are free to march on the streets of our capital city, & while it welcomes former allies of al-Qaeda into Downing Street, it has banned conservative activists from joining a peaceful protest against mass immigration in London.

Put all these things together and you get a sense - just a sense - of how hideously authoritarian and illiberal this Labour government really is.

[David @davidandmeli]

@RupaHuq @TheaDickinson “I didn’t know. Nobody told me” is the Labour slogan now isn’t it?

[R @richardintheuk]

If Labour MPs really want to get rid of Keir Starmer, all they need to do is reveal the truth as to what happened in Durham.

[David @davidandmeli]

@TheWatc47403040 @tbatde_tb @KHenline70879 @SpencerHakimian “I never knew. Nobody told me.” Standard defence of that great ‘leader’

[David @davidandmeli]

@BBCNews Starmer’s spokesman said Robbins made an ‘error of judgement’ isn’t that exactly what Starmer said he himself made in appointing Mandelson? One was sacked, the other…

[David @davidandmeli]

@ChrisHolmes31 @Deviates @jimhamilton4 Then bottom of the league Tigers were knowingly breaking the salary cap at the time. Perhaps that’s an indication of why others wouldn’t open their books…

[UNN @UnityNewsNet]

The one on the left gets a well paid gig on Channel 4 gobbing off about the 'far-right' whilst the man on the right was found slumped at the base of a tree with one wrist cut and none of his fingerprints on the pruning knife he supposedly used.

Never forgive and never forget!

[David @davidandmeli]

@ThePWR @allianzuknews @EnglandRugby Premiership Women’s Rugby. New name: same incompetent decision-makers.

[David @davidandmeli]

@TheAthleticFC @Saracens Why did we have this clown at the club this week? (And I’m a Watford supporter)

[David @davidandmeli]

@Saracens ??? Stood his ground

[David @davidandmeli]

@Saracens How does the touch judge not see that?!

[David @davidandmeli]

@Saracens @Alex_goode0 Going to be a long night with these officials…

[David @davidandmeli]

@ChrisRGollop @BBCSport @Ofcom @lucyfrazermp @RobbieGibb @Saracens McLaughlan’s agenda has been evident since trying to sensationalise handbags in the tunnel against Scotland into something that could break up the UK!
Sadly the want to create a ‘story’ instead of just reporting objectively on the game

[David @davidandmeli]

@ChrisRGollop @BBCSport @Ofcom @lucyfrazermp @RobbieGibb @Saracens Yes, BBC could start by looking at Matt Dawson’s constant slating of Farrell. Odious

[Charlie Morgan @CharlieFelix]

For someone who palpably loves representing England as much as Owen Farrell to voluntarily step away from doing so should reinforce what he’s had to confront and absorb, some of which has been appalling. Frankly, it should leave people feeling pretty cold.

[David @davidandmeli]

@Matiasisback @pdanson @ThePWR @SaracensWomen @gloshartpury @RugbySaracens @cheekycol @jo_peake @BackTheGirlsPod Yep, the water carriers were bringing out hot water to warm hands!

[David @davidandmeli]

@Matiasisback @SaracensWomen @lotteclapp Yep! Eliot’s hoping for another try this weekend Lotte!