Just sayin.....

For a Government that said it got all the big calls right on COVID, its sure going out of its way, using our taxplayer's money, to ensure we don't disproove that.

The Government set up an inquiry, gave it wide powers, appointed a judge to head it, then refused to provide documents requested, and is using both Judicial Review and the ECHR to try to stop those same documents being supplied.

And if they lose that, then are proposing to make them secret to can't be published to the public.

So much for open and honest Government, Mr Sunak.

And the greased pig that is Alexander Boris de Piffel Johnson, who is being provided with publically funded legal defence, then announced he would provide documents requested straight to the inquiry, drew the response from the Cabinet Office that unless he let them do the legalising, he would have to pay for his own defence.

How did a Government, Cabinet Office, set up its own inquiry, set terms of reference and judge to head it, get it so wrong?

As I have said before, these are not clever people, and putting policy statements into action is difficult, far too diifficult for former journalists and vulture capatalists to understand and carry out.

That the Government is using both JR, which it wants to limit everyone else's uses of, and revolk the ECHR and replace it with a UK bill of rights, seems what some are more equal than others, and when they decide its worth testing the legality, not when we want to do it.

That this is an inquir into how this Government reacted to COVID, one of the most predictable global emergencies that we were likely to encounter, and that members of the current Government were Minister through the pandemic. It seems focus is going to be on then then Chancellor's "eat out to help out" scheme, which several medial studies have shown were likely to ahve contributed to the second wave of infections and subsequent lockdown.

Sunak doesn't accept those findings: is he a scientists, does he challenge their findings? If so, how and why?

The eat out to help out was branded not by Government or Conservative party logos, but by the signature of the then Chancellor, now PM, Rishi Sunak.

What could he have to hide?