Election Year or Fear!

[Geoff Parkstone]

I understand and respect your point Swale, and I imagine it’s the same constabulary - or at least partially - for Hillsborough as it was for Orgreave five years earlier.

Doesn’t reflect well, but the senior officers at the time of Orgreave are likely to be dead or in/approaching their nineties by now and I suspect it’s more likely that the lawyers will get richer than that the truth will be discovered after all that time.

Ideally I think all wrongs and miscarriages of justice should be exposed but practically I’d prefer to see some evidence of progress in the more recent ones, where evidence is comparatively fresh, before we start going back forty plus years.

I am really at a loss to understand the point of this latest enquiry. Let me prefaced by saying that I wasn't living in UK at the time so it means nothing to me in terms of detail or, quite frankly, interest.

I understand it was one of the later skirmishes in breaking the power of the mine workers, but FFS it was 41 years ago. As rA has said most of the participants are likely dead or long since in back seats. It's just a waste of resources which could be spent on something more useful than trying to win points off long dead Thatcher et al.

I wonder what would have been said if someone had launched an enquiry in 1984 into something done in the early 1940s? Or even something way more modern such as the Suez crisis.


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