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January 04, 2004
And the prize is ....
Usually three weeks in Scunthorpe with Auntie May, but that would be far too good for this lot.
Hypocrisy has a peculiar stench to it, and the Dr Kelly affair must be stinking all the way around the globe by now. It seems that, in anticipation of being blamed by the Hutton report for the suicide of Dr Kelly, the civil servants running the Ministry of Defence (yep, the same ones who bought automatic personal weapons for the troops which seize up if you don't clean it out everytime you fire it, or if it gets too hot, or too sandy and boots that melt in the desert heat!) have now hired a bunch of very expensive lawyers and put together a team of other civil servants to contest any potential claim for compensation that Mrs Kelly might make.
Not content with having driven him to suicide, they now want to deny any involvement and are trying to put forward "evidence" - which since it comes from "confidential" files cannot be tested, and given that it is also "found" and written by civil servants, shouldn't be trusted - that he was mentally unstable! So, if we can't do a Pontius Pilate and wash our hands of involvement, then we can claim he was his own worst enemy. Oh, really? So no one spotted the fact that he was in need of help while he was actually involved in the Iraqi arms inspections? What sort of management is this?
Frankly, the whole thing stinks, the people involved should be thrown out of post. They have deprived the Kelly family of a father and husband, they have deprived the country of this mans knowledge and his expertise and now they want to deny his widow the compensation she and her family are entitled too. No doubt Mr Blair will reward the MoD team with Knighthoods or some other appropriate award.
I sincerely hope that the Hutton Enquiry turns up the dirt on the Civil Servants involved, but I somehow doubt that it will.
Posted by The Gray Monk at January 4, 2004 11:21 PM
Comments
Look who is cynical now, Father.
Posted by: Gawain at January 5, 2004 11:00 AM
That's Cardinal Archbishop of the Church of Latter Day Cynics my son!
Posted by: The Gray Monk at January 6, 2004 12:03 AM