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Vivian Evans's avatar

reading your summary I am in awe of your stamina: how are you able to bear this tedious, turgid spectacle, the peacocking of those dumb 'performers' a.k. MPs. Does that lot, from Starmer and Cooper all the way down, really think 'giving' us a Southport inquiry will mean they don't have to 'give' us one on th Rape Gangs?

This is unravelling faster than I thought possible ...

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Rolf Norfolk's avatar

It's only half an hour and I get the transcript from Hansard. I thought when I heard about Cooper's enquiry that it might be about the gangs; as you say, we need that too. British scandals use long delay as a way to douse fires.

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Vivian Evans's avatar

Oh yes: 'inquiries' are the preferred instrument of British governments to kick the ball into the long grass, or, combining two metaphors: kicking the can down the road so that the worms stay in the can ...

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