I suppose it all began with Watergate. The burglary ordered by President Nixon was bad enough but it was the subsequent cover up which brought him down and led to his ignominious resignation. In this country, however, cover ups have become institutionalised. An independent review of maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals is currently ongoing via the Ockenden Review. It is not unlikely that officials of the Trust will be charged with corporate manslaughter. Humberside Police has also opened an investigation into avoidable patient deaths following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedures at Castle Hill Hospital near Hull. A police investigation is underway into at least 105 cases of alleged medical negligence by two surgery teams at the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. These are just the tip of a Watergate inspired iceberg slowly but surely being uncovered the length and breadth of this country. Powerful individuals appointed by various committees have used their authority to secure their organisation`s reputation and/or income against valid accusations, sometimes criminal, of impropriety or worse by naming, shaming and discrediting those within who have tried to bring into the public domain the offending and the offenders. The current Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police on assuming his job told the world to expect many police scandals to emerge in his first year in the job. We have not been disappointed.
The latest can of worms to be offered for public display was the publication yesterday of a report by Baroness Casey that found inter alia that many officials at the highest level of authority in various categories covered up the fact that there was a preponderance of Muslims involved in what has become known as the grooming scandal. I recollect all too clearly comments to journalists by such figures when confronted by the numbers of Muslims involved countering the information by claiming many more white men were in paedophile gangs conveniently omitting the obvious that whites were within a far far larger cohort. All too often on live T.V. the reporter would let such remarks go unchallenged. Those who comment on Muslim lawlessness and social mores have even been threatened with police action (This blog last week June 10th) the same police who deliberately and with intent refused to record the ethnicity of those charged. Since 2020 the CPS has published the ethnicity of serious offenders.
This blog is not a news service. Having been retired from the magistracy for a decade it is no longer a weekly comment on magistrates courts. This "freedom" allows opinion on matters which might be of concern to those who are interested in the law as it affects the general public to be expressed without the restrictions imposed whilst a member of that junior branch of the judiciary.
Shakespeare`s Marcellus in Act I, scene iv Hamlet was right then about Denmark and it is becoming increasingly obvious that it allows it to be said that there is something rotten in the state of England. That rot extends to the House of Commons where too many "Hon" MPs are concerned primarily with their own re-election above all else and a small minority the advancement of Islamist ideology. To say they would sell their souls to the devil doesn`t go nearly far enough in understanding how the rot is embedded. "The lady`s not for turning" is a phrase that will live forever in the annuls of parliamentary rebuttals. It`s no wonder the Russians called Margaret Thatcher the "iron lady".
From the tenant of 10 Downing Street downwards unlike his illustrious bag waving predecessor there is no indication that there is any basis to a political philosophy or direction underlying those who rule over us. Social, economic and military policy are sacrificed to expediency. The Red Sea opened for the Israelites as an escape route from death and extermination but engulfed those who sought their destruction by seeking to follow their path. Government and Opposition have no path except to proclaim "we`re not them" hoping that with the loudest voice their followers will travel with them before catastrophe engulfs all.
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