Blue Tooth
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Re Hillsborough: Calls for local papers to end Bernard Ingham's Column
Over the past few weeks, calls have been growing locally for Bernard Ingham's column to be dropped by local papers.(Hebden Bridge Times) For many years, his persistent attacks on wind energy have angered local environmentalists who point out that he has been a long term consultant for the nuclear industry. Currently, it his failure to apologise for his 'disgraceful' remarks following the Hillsborough tragedy that are angering people.
Dave and Viv Boardman are both from the Liverpool area but have made Hebden Bridge their home since 1999. They are calling upon local papers to drop Bernard Ingham's column if he won't apologise for blaming football supporters and for calling for the police to be compensated.
An extract from The Hillsborough Independent Panel Report shows that Hebden Bridge Times columnist Bernard Ingham knew within days of the tragedy that Hillsborough was not caused by football fans, but went to on join the conspiracy to blame the victims anyway:
"2.6.24 Comments made by Bernard Ingham, the Prime Minister's Press Secretary, in the aftermath of the disaster and some years later provide an indication of the discussion at the meeting. His Westminster lobby briefing of 18 April 1989 records journalists being informed that '[w]hat had happened on Saturday was not the result of obvious hooliganism but was more a matter of safety at sports grounds'.
2.6.25 However, this contrasts markedly with his position several years later when he wrote that during the visit to Sheffield on 16 April he 'learned on the spot' that '[t]here would have been no Hillsborough if a mob, who were clearly tanked up, had not tried to force their way into the ground. To blame the police is a cop-out'."
Ingham even went to to suggest the police should be compensated for their sufferings on BBC Question Time on 6 June 1996!
Dave and Viv Boardman feel his attitude to the victims, their families and the community is unforgivable and renders any views of his irrelevant.
"Being aware of the truth and peddling the opposite - in the context of 96 innocent lives being lost - quite frankly undermines the concept of 'freedom of the press' in this country as much as anything that came out of the Leveson Inquiry. Ingham was also involved in blaming miners for Orgreave when the courts dismissed charges against them.
"And what does Ingham say - Hillsborough, Orgreave and various other issues do not 'matter' to people. If anything this is even more offensive than his previous tactic of ignoring the anger people feel about his role in all this.
"I know the group editor does not believe in interfering with columnists in general, but can that justify continuing to push the words of the discredited on us? Can the Hebden Bridge Times and its owners please justify printing anything from Ingham that is not an explanation of this hypocrisy - alongside an apology from him for his disgraceful words?
"Even David Cameron apologised for the conspiracy, the legal system has acknowledged it was wrong to deny a proper investigation into the deaths by re - calling the inquests. . After Leveson, this is surely not the time for the press to be defending those involved in the culture of conspiracy against the innocent. Or is this newspaper group just another part of ongoing conspiracy against the British public?"
Source:http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/news/
Over the past few weeks, calls have been growing locally for Bernard Ingham's column to be dropped by local papers.(Hebden Bridge Times) For many years, his persistent attacks on wind energy have angered local environmentalists who point out that he has been a long term consultant for the nuclear industry. Currently, it his failure to apologise for his 'disgraceful' remarks following the Hillsborough tragedy that are angering people.
Dave and Viv Boardman are both from the Liverpool area but have made Hebden Bridge their home since 1999. They are calling upon local papers to drop Bernard Ingham's column if he won't apologise for blaming football supporters and for calling for the police to be compensated.
An extract from The Hillsborough Independent Panel Report shows that Hebden Bridge Times columnist Bernard Ingham knew within days of the tragedy that Hillsborough was not caused by football fans, but went to on join the conspiracy to blame the victims anyway:
"2.6.24 Comments made by Bernard Ingham, the Prime Minister's Press Secretary, in the aftermath of the disaster and some years later provide an indication of the discussion at the meeting. His Westminster lobby briefing of 18 April 1989 records journalists being informed that '[w]hat had happened on Saturday was not the result of obvious hooliganism but was more a matter of safety at sports grounds'.
2.6.25 However, this contrasts markedly with his position several years later when he wrote that during the visit to Sheffield on 16 April he 'learned on the spot' that '[t]here would have been no Hillsborough if a mob, who were clearly tanked up, had not tried to force their way into the ground. To blame the police is a cop-out'."
Ingham even went to to suggest the police should be compensated for their sufferings on BBC Question Time on 6 June 1996!
Dave and Viv Boardman feel his attitude to the victims, their families and the community is unforgivable and renders any views of his irrelevant.
"Being aware of the truth and peddling the opposite - in the context of 96 innocent lives being lost - quite frankly undermines the concept of 'freedom of the press' in this country as much as anything that came out of the Leveson Inquiry. Ingham was also involved in blaming miners for Orgreave when the courts dismissed charges against them.
"And what does Ingham say - Hillsborough, Orgreave and various other issues do not 'matter' to people. If anything this is even more offensive than his previous tactic of ignoring the anger people feel about his role in all this.
"I know the group editor does not believe in interfering with columnists in general, but can that justify continuing to push the words of the discredited on us? Can the Hebden Bridge Times and its owners please justify printing anything from Ingham that is not an explanation of this hypocrisy - alongside an apology from him for his disgraceful words?
"Even David Cameron apologised for the conspiracy, the legal system has acknowledged it was wrong to deny a proper investigation into the deaths by re - calling the inquests. . After Leveson, this is surely not the time for the press to be defending those involved in the culture of conspiracy against the innocent. Or is this newspaper group just another part of ongoing conspiracy against the British public?"
Source:http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/news/