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
Extraordinary from the (now ex) Secretary of State for Defence, "Since then, you have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats"
Three defence resignations in one night.
John Healey. Al Carns. Pamela Nash.
The people tasked with protecting Britain have lost confidence in this government.
Keir Starmer should resign.
Police PULL a man away from the fence, where he was standing and observing with folded arms, and BEAT HIM to the ground, using the edges of their riot shields as weapons. They then proceed to kick and beat him while he's on the floor, hitting him repeatedly in the head.
The police are off the reservation at this point. All semblance of policing in the public interest has been tossed casually aside. They have become a government goon squad. Be very careful out there.
After 20 years in the British Army, I asked the @PoppyLegion for some assistance.
Last year they made £56.6 million from the poppy appeal and the best they could do was to reply with 'Ask Citizens Advice'
And to think I've helped raise money for this lot!!!
@UponTyneNews
UK law:
If you are Muslim you can punch a police offer in the face, bang your first cousin and claim benefits for your fourth wife (also a family number)
If you are white, you get prison time for tweeting how pissed off you are about it.
Labour are inciting riots
“Under a Labour government we would freeze energy bills. We wouldn’t allow them to go up.”
~ Keir Starmer
Yet another lie.
A typical energy bill will rise by £221 a year from July.
Last year I had 2 new tyres fitted to my van - £126.
Today I had two new tyres fitted to the same van, same garage, same make of tyre - £165.
30% increase in one year.
Diesel is up 35% since a couple of months ago.
My van insurers want an extra £120 this year.
I'm a Decorator and all the paint I use has had TWO price increases each year for the past few years.
Some now costs approximately TWICE what it cost 6 years ago.
Some trade paint is now over £100 for 5 litres. Yes it's better than cheap crap but that's a ridiculous price.
But I'm just one bloke trying to earn a living.
Millions are in the same boat as me.
They can give you stories about the price of timber, plasterboard, electrical fittings, roof tiles and everything else they have to buy.
Everything appears to be getting more difficult for everyone.
In years gone by we didn't all have to worry about the cost of putting the heating on or how much we paid for the water that came out of our taps. We do now.
We didn't have to search the shelves in the supermarkets for the cheapest (inferior) alternatives and we didn't get utterly ripped off when paying for parking in town centres.
Our Council Tax bills, (or Rates as it used to be called), were equal to a small proportion of our income. And we got the bins emptied every week.
We could actually buy rounds in the pub - Remember THAT?
Many millions of people who frequented pubs can't afford to go there any more. Their village pub is probably shut now anyway.
Our public services are overstretched.
The NHS is ALWAYS on it's knees.
Our roads are falling to bits.
Parents can't get their kids into their local schools.
Many people in villages, towns and cities are frightened to go out alone (or at all) due the numbers of undesirables roaming the streets and our parks.
But it's OK. We're the Worlds 5th largest economy apparently and therefore a "rich" country compared to many.
Perhaps that's why we can afford to give away ONE THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS every MONTH to countries who don't share our good fortune, or our wonderful public services or our national contentment in knowing we're nearly at the top of the tree.
Is it any wonder that hundreds of thousands of people are just saying "bollocks to this" and either stopping work or buggering off to live somewhere else?
My advice to any young person would be - Go! It might not work out for you but at least you've had a try, probably had some fun, learnt a lot about yourself and the World and maybe met someone you can share your life with.
You can always come back again and help the local council empty the bins every 3 weeks.