Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Tacit permission to act outside the law? Again, putting a shotgun in the boot of a known criminal's car is not the same as a government-level 25 year conspiracy around 96 deaths. If they are part and parcel of the same thing then neither is acceptable.

I have been unfortunate enough to have several recent experiences with our local police force and trust me, they do their job well enough. Admittedly that job involves responding every time my neighbours claim they have been racially abused and losing interest when it is proven to them that the allegation is entirely false and could not possibly have happened.
What tangible benefit arose from the Hillsborough Inquiry, p? I know a bunch of scousers got to feel vindicated and self-righteous (so what's new?) and will now probably get a load of compo from the taxpayer (which is what they were really after all along). Also, a few politicians got to grandstand about it and improve their public profile (I'm looking at you, Burnham). But what actual good was done? None. Nobody came back from the dead. No lives will be saved in future as a consequence - that was achieved by the Taylor Report more than 20 years ago.

All that happened is that somebody was found to blame. So what? What was the point of that? Is anyone better off for knowing that a copper made a tragic, understandable mistake and that he was - as far as possible - protected from the consequences of that mistake for a couple of decades. If the truth be known, I don't really have a problem with that.