Hillsborough and Our Continuous Quest for the Truth

Now I am not a Tory and never been. I will be honest when I say I detest everything they stand for. This week though they have reached a new low because of their moves in trying to deny the 96 Angels and their families the truth, which of course they are entitled to have. 

There have been several reasons being banded about why this has happened and who decided on the appeal. The answers to this are simple.  The main reason is I suspect that Teresa May asked her department to read the files and hey presto they have discovered something which they feel we must not know - hey presto I suspect it is the TRUTH about how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher agreed to a massive police cover up to ensure that she and her officers came out of the affair totally exonerated. The appeal would have been decided by David Cameron who would have informed his home Secretary Teresa May to take the necessary steps.

When it became known in the media that had happened a gentleman called Brian Irvine put a petition together on the No.10 website urging the government to debate the issue. For this to happen, you need 100,000 signatures so the help of today's social media sites the word began to be spread around.  Twitter in particular has become a massive part of this with stars such as Joey Barton picking up the mantle and urging their followers to sign.

This is the link to the petition and although you have to be a British Citizen to sign it, I urge you to do so.  Please also pass onto work colleagues, relatives, drinking pals and supporters of other football clubs.  It is something that must be backed by everyone.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/2199Full

The media have also realised that it needs to be brought out into the open and most papers have published stories relating to Hillsborough and its aftermath and I think them sincerely for that.  Tony Barrett interviewed Margaret Aspinall for the Times on Friday and it was a very moving interview. 

This morning Michael Calvin of the Sunday Mirror published a very moving piece and I urge you all to read it.

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/michael-calvin/Michael-Calvin-Hillsborough-Justice-for-the-96-Liverpool-Everton-Michael-Kelly-article788091.html

As has Paul Hayward of the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/aug/20/hillsborough-disaster-liverpool

I urge you to read them both and if people need to be educated about the disaster MirrorFootball have a fantastic archive of Hillsborough material, some of which will shock people, but it needs to be seen.

What I will say is that the truth will come out one day and it will show how incompetent the Thatcher government actually were and how they were unable to face the fact that major mistakes had been made. Twenty Two years have now passed since that fateful day in April 1989 and there should be no more attempts to sweep it under the carpet.

What David Cameron and Teresa May have appeared to have forgotten is that the people of Liverpool will not give up in their quest for justice and this is just another stumbling block that they will overcome.

You see we will get the justice the 96 Angels and their families deserve to ensure that one day they will finally be able to rest in peace.