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How can an inquiry cost so much?(£195M)
« on: 15 June 2010, 12:40:28 »
I would have done it for half the actual cost!!

Seriously though. How can the Bloody Sunday inquiry have cost £195 MILLION and take 12 years to complete. Was it protracted to keep individuals in "clover"? The mind boggles at the way public money (i.e.taxes) are spent.  :'( :'( :'(
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Re: How can an inquiry cost so much?(£195M)
« Reply #1 on: 15 June 2010, 12:44:28 »
1972....is a long....long time ago too... :-/ :-/
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Re: How can an inquiry cost so much?(£195M)
« Reply #2 on: 15 June 2010, 12:55:26 »
12 years at 195M total is 16.25M per year.....given that the average cost of a professional per year is about 100K then thats 160 people!

Chuffing heck.....that is a total disgrace.
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Re: How can an inquiry cost so much?(£195M)
« Reply #3 on: 15 June 2010, 12:59:30 »
And after ALL this money spent, the conclusion was.................??

All the guilty people and those responsible for the ordering of the atrocity are now in the legal, legitimate, government, elected, and making life changing decisions.

You couldn't make it up.
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Re: How can an inquiry cost so much?(£195M)
« Reply #4 on: 15 June 2010, 13:41:27 »
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I would have done it for half the actual cost!!

Seriously though. How can the Bloody Sunday inquiry have cost £195 MILLION and take 12 years to complete. Was it protracted to keep individuals in "clover"? The mind boggles at the way public money (i.e.taxes) are spent.  :'( :'( :'(



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Seriously though. How can the Bloody Sunday inquiry have cost £195 MILLION and take 12 years to complete


Easy - one man felt the "hand of history" more pressing than the requirement for responsible government. :y
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« Reply #5 on: 15 June 2010, 13:48:08 »
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I would have done it for half the actual cost!!

Seriously though. How can the Bloody Sunday inquiry have cost £195 MILLION and take 12 years to complete. Was it protracted to keep individuals in "clover"? The mind boggles at the way public money (i.e.taxes) are spent.  :'( :'( :'(



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Seriously though. How can the Bloody Sunday inquiry have cost £195 MILLION and take 12 years to complete


Easy - one man felt the "hand of history" more pressing than the requirement for responsible government. :y


What was it TB said?.......something like.....now is not the time for "soundbites" ::) ::).....but I feel the hand of history upon my shoulder.....or something similar .... ::) ::) ::) ;)
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Re: How can an inquiry cost so much?(£195M)
« Reply #6 on: 15 June 2010, 14:04:30 »
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And after ALL this money spent, the conclusion was.................??

All the guilty people and those responsible for the ordering of the atrocity are now in the legal, legitimate, government, elected, and making life changing decisions.

You couldn't make it up.


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All the guilty people and those responsible for the ordering of the atrocity are now in the legal, legitimate, government, elected, and making life changing decisions.



I was in Northern Ireland at the time although not in Londonderry so am well acquainted with the foibles of 'The Troubles' (having given over 30 years service to the 'British war machine') - however - in the interests of balance I have to point out that this was a very complex issue played out during surreal times when the rule of law and order had, for the most part, broken down and when death and destruction were everyday occurrences.

The likelihood that mass demonstrations would decline into such incidents was very real and that fact allowed the republican movement to cynically exploit this demonstration for their own ends - there was no 'ordering of an atrocity' as such SS.

It's tempting to form an opinion during times far removed from those under discussion, but I have to say as a result of my experiences there, this is not a binary issue.

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Re: How can an inquiry cost so much?(£195M)
« Reply #7 on: 15 June 2010, 14:05:35 »
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I would have done it for half the actual cost!!

Seriously though. How can the Bloody Sunday inquiry have cost £195 MILLION and take 12 years to complete. Was it protracted to keep individuals in "clover"? The mind boggles at the way public money (i.e.taxes) are spent.  :'( :'( :'(



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Seriously though. How can the Bloody Sunday inquiry have cost £195 MILLION and take 12 years to complete


Easy - one man felt the "hand of history" more pressing than the requirement for responsible government. :y


What was it TB said?.......something like.....now is not the time for "soundbites" ::) ::).....but I feel the hand of history upon my shoulder.....or something similar .... ::) ::) ::) ;)


You get a gold star for that one Opti :-* :-* :y
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Re: How can an inquiry cost so much?(£195M)
« Reply #8 on: 15 June 2010, 14:10:24 »
Zulu....I may have worded that slightly wrong, having been there in N.I. too "under service".
I agree that it was perhaps not an "atrocity" in retrospect, but a definate mis-opinion that was acted on harshly, shall we say. I am sure that the burden of silence also falls on you as it does me for the "true" information as we both signed the book. Shouldn't have happened, did the Para's get it wrong, or did the powers that be get it wrong?
We may never know really.
given your previous personal posts about yourself, I absolutely understand, and respect.

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Re: How can an inquiry cost so much?(£195M)
« Reply #9 on: 15 June 2010, 14:38:45 »
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Zulu....I may have worded that slightly wrong, having been there in N.I. too "under service".
I agree that it was perhaps not an "atrocity" in retrospect, but a definate mis-opinion that was acted on harshly, shall we say. I am sure that the burden of silence also falls on you as it does me for the "true" information as we both signed the book. Shouldn't have happened, did the Para's get it wrong, or did the powers that be get it wrong?
We may never know really.
given your previous personal posts about yourself, I absolutely understand, and respect.

Mike.



The use of the army in response to what was, for the most part, a civil problem was always going to cause difficulties - but then it was necessary at the time as the civil police (Royal Ulster Constabulary) had lost the support of a sizeable section of the nationalist population(and control of the areas they inhabited)

When the army was being tasked for Operation Banner, aid to the civil power, in 1969 I seem to remember Jim Callaghan (the then Home Secretary) saying that it would be easy to send troops there but not so easy to bring them back, and so it proved.

The incident in Londonderry was one waiting to happen and a consequence of having armed soldiers on the streets at a time other than during open war.

The army personnel concerned were doing their duty as soldiers that day and to have expected them to have done anything else would have rendered their presence there as being unnecessary - which it most certainly was not during a time of generalised murder and mayhem.
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