Paul Crane

Retired UK funeral worker. Lincolnshire.
Keen amatuer photographer.
Sony Alpha user.

[Paul Crane @GrumpyBadgerman]

@ArturNadol7566 Echoes of Dr David Kelly.

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@MarkHeath45 No.

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@ArturNadol7566 @RichardSelwyn2 I haven't forgotten him.

[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

[Mike Yardley @YardleyShooting]

Wake up. Labour must be called out. They're pushing social media bans for under-16s, overnight restrictions for 16-17 year olds, and tighter controls on VPNs to stop circumvention. This risks crossing into heavy-handed state overreach — far outside Britain's traditions of liberty. It should be resisted by anyone who values Magna Carta and our constitutional freedoms

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@thecoastguy VPNs won't work, the requirement for id will be at OS level. Nothing will work until you have proven your age. VPNs will be irrelevant.

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@Jim90165537 @ClarksonsFarm1 🔔🔚

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@Waldo_266 @WelshWalshy @ClarksonsFarm1 Not all but they all have to be destroyed.

[Paul Crane @GrumpyBadgerman]

@ZelenskyyUa @Keir_Starmer Won't be around for much longer.

[Alice Smith @TheAliceSmith]

Keir Starmer doesn’t know how VPNs work.

David Lammy doesn’t know how the court system works.

Rachel Reeves doesn’t know how the economy works.

None of them knows what a woman is.

Not exactly Britain’s brightest and best.

[Paul Crane @GrumpyBadgerman]

@LeilaniDowding We will all be required to id ourselves.

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@ForeverScept @KathrynPorter26 ? Thoughts.

[Paul Crane @GrumpyBadgerman]

@LelJoyce @mike_reader @reformparty_uk ..knowing them all as we do, most likely the latter.

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@TexasAggie98 @ClarksonsFarm1 Amazon crew were at the 'Cereals' event on Diddly Squat last week.

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@SugacubeM1 @DavidPNoble63 Hope US firms won't play the game.

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@mike_reader @reformparty_uk 😲 You are the good ones apparently! Glass houses son?

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@csquaredEddy I would love to see Google and Apple refuse to play ball.

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@csquaredEddy VPNs won't work, the requirement for id will be at OS level. Nothing will work until you have proven your age.

[Paul Crane @GrumpyBadgerman]

@misscarsonn Vpns won't work, it will be at OS level, he device wont work until you have put your id in.