[St Charles Owl]

The decision was driven by a desire to protect the Conservative Party from what would assuredly be the revelation that the behaviour of the Police at that time was sanctioned and encouraged by them for their own political ends. That needs to be put out clearly in the open and for the record,thats how society is meant to work not hiding behind cowardly 'we all know what happened' type thinking.

Theresa May must have known what would happen when SHE first, and wholly unexpectedly, floated the idea of an enquiry, and then amber rudd followed up basically by telling the families it was going to happen before her u-turn yesterday. There is now an inexorable momentum towards an inquiry into Orgreave. It is going to happen eventually,so they should just have gone ahead and bitten the bullet.

The tories are basically just trying to keep their right wing in check with this decision while brexit proceeds.

Jim, surely if there is an inquiry then by the time that all takes place and is concluded the likelihood is that the Tories won't even be in power after all the Brexit stuff?? And after Hillsborough there is surely no doubt in anyones mind that the SYP were being used by the Tory government to cover things up to make everyone look better?? Not sure how this inquiry would change that anyway.