Hillsborough Report

Just heard a small part of this on the radio.

What a terrible deflection of blame onto the victims; a truly monumental cover-up

Agree Mojo Hill.

All those responsible, politicians, police, media, everyone guilty of lies, cover up etc need to be brought to justice including Margaret Thatcher, no matter how old they are. Thatcher hated Liverpool, and was quick to believe the lies, even after she had been told of the lies. The families and supporters of the victims have been brilliant in their quest for the truth, lets hope that the guilty face justice.

But the report exonerates Margaret Thatcher...

Wouldn't worry too much about that John, she's still going to be blamed for anything thats happened since 19-nought plonk

A victory at last for the families but downright disgusting to think 41 people could have survived this terrible tragedy just so sad x

I totally agree Mojo Hilly, what an appalling state of affairs! Those poor families have been so brave in their fight to get to the truth and my heart goes out to them.

One worries where else the truth has been strangled in this way.

One hopes that the enormity of the tragedy caused an aberration in behaviour. Somehow I doubt it though, and more examples will come to light in due course.

At the very least Thatcher repeated the LIES about some of the fans being responsible, despite the fact that she had been told at least some of the truth. She publicly backed the police , on the issue.

I will blame Thatcher for things she should be blamed for, just like I will all politicians who deserved to be blamed. Thatcher hated Liverpool like she hated the Miners for having the guts to stand up to her government's policies.

They were different times with different problems. Today's young people wouldn't recognise them at all. It was these sort of tragedies that eventually forced the football fraternity to get its act together and replace inadequate grounds (Hillsborough was not suited for that meeting as they well knew from the previous years 'squash'). It also forced the powers that be to look at their methods of policing and crowd controls and to train some of their people in 'how to police such meetings'. 96 people died from an inadequate venue, inadequate controls and a general fear and ignorance of the pattern of events - which also included inadequate communications between agencies both inside and outside the grounds. 1989 followed closely the miners and Scargill and the 'red' unionists of the previous two decades. It was hardly surprising such an event took place. If it hadn't been Hillsborough it would have been elsewhere. Nothing gets done in this country until 'after' the horse has bolted. It's endemic.
As for the cover-up. Nothing new there at all. It paled to insignificance against the miners strike and the dirt that was dished out there.
Don't look for scapegoats now - they are either too old (as with Nazi war criminals) or dead already. Publish by all means. Denigrate if you so wish but don't start another useless round of hand-wringing which will cost us yet more millions. The families of the dead deserve some justice. Not something that happens very often in this world.

Norman Bettison is an absolute disgrace, and should be sacked, have his titles taken away from him and prosecuted. He is still trying to put the blame of the tragedy on some of the fans.