…I’m sure it adds up. Still, £200 million is a lot of money.
Actually I’ve no idea how the £195million cost of the inquiry breaks down (I bet that isn’t in the report) and as you say there will certainly have been more than eight barristers involved but I just wanted to illustrate how quickly the cost of legal teams adds up.
…I’m sure it adds up. Still, £200 million is a lot of money.
Actually I’ve no idea how the £195million cost of the inquiry breaks down (I bet that isn’t in the report) and as you say there will certainly have been more than eight barristers involved but I just wanted to illustrate how quickly the cost of legal teams adds up.
Well, say eight top barristers, charging £1000 per hour (yes, that is the going rate!), working a forty-hour week, for fifty-two weeks, for twelve years…
Well, say eight top barristers, charging £1000 per hour (yes, that is the going rate!), working a forty-hour week, for fifty-two weeks, for twelve years…
I seem to remember reading that the fuselage of PN323 was once owned by one of the volunteers working to recreate ‘Friday the 13th’ (before the project was thought of) but he was forced to donate it to the IWM due to lack of storage space. The IWM were asked if it could be returned when the ‘Friday the 13th’ project got under way but the IWM declined. I hope I’ve got my facts right.
On a similar subject there are some ‘Friday the 13th’ panels on the wall of the Bomber Hall at RAFM Hendon…..are they the originals?
Basically it refers to claims made on a website by somebody who was a young man working at the Stork Hotel in Liverpool during the war and was told that a guest (who had two artificial legs) was Douglas Bader…..the only problem being that at that time Bader was a POW in Germany! Any attempt to suggest it was a case of mistaken identity or leg-pulling (sorry) led to rather heated exchanges with the young (now old) man (and author) of the said website. I’m sure somebody will provide a link.
The ‘aircraft’ is still at Elvington and is a complex composite of original Halifax components (centre fuselage mainly) and other components. The tail section was built by (the then) British Aerospace, the wings are from a (scrapped) Hastings, the engines are former French Air Force (as fitted to the Noratlas), the main undercarriage is fabricated and the cockpit section was built (out of alloy plated wood I think?) by volunteers at Elvington.
…talking about inquiries against the IRA, the IRA did actually have a semi-independent inquiry branch which investigated IRA actions when they went wrong. Most of their work however was involved in bringing informers to justice.
The ‘justice’ of a bullet in the back of the head? :rolleyes:
…talking about inquiries against the IRA, the IRA did actually have a semi-independent inquiry branch which investigated IRA actions when they went wrong. Most of their work however was involved in bringing informers to justice.
The ‘justice’ of a bullet in the back of the head? :rolleyes:
However 30 years afterwards, the IRA voluntarily published an apology acknowledging that they failed to warn people and were “deeply saddened” by the loss of life. Why did it take the Brits a £200m inquiry to make them say a similar thing?
Would it have been acceptable if the British government had done just that; waited thirty years and then said that they were ‘deeply saddened’ by the events of Bloody Sunday?
However 30 years afterwards, the IRA voluntarily published an apology acknowledging that they failed to warn people and were “deeply saddened” by the loss of life. Why did it take the Brits a £200m inquiry to make them say a similar thing?
Would it have been acceptable if the British government had done just that; waited thirty years and then said that they were ‘deeply saddened’ by the events of Bloody Sunday?
…do not expect me to be kind to the British army with regard to their appalling record in Ireland vis a vis civilians.
How do you regard the record of, say, the Provisional IRA with regard to civilians?
You say that you are on the side of ‘truth and justice’ but if you are selective in the incidents that you clamour for ‘truth and justice’ about it simply becomes propaganda and your ‘passion’ becomes provocation.
…do not expect me to be kind to the British army with regard to their appalling record in Ireland vis a vis civilians.
How do you regard the record of, say, the Provisional IRA with regard to civilians?
You say that you are on the side of ‘truth and justice’ but if you are selective in the incidents that you clamour for ‘truth and justice’ about it simply becomes propaganda and your ‘passion’ becomes provocation.
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