{"id":279576,"date":"2025-07-21T09:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279576\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:11:15","slug":"labour-appoints-anti-tory-anti-brexit-bishop-to-chair-thatcher-bashing-battle-of-orgreave-inquiry-guido-fawkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279576\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Appoints Anti-Tory, Anti-Brexit Bishop to Chair Thatcher-Bashing Battle of Orgreave Inquiry \u2013 Guido Fawkes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labour Appoints Anti-Tory, Anti-Brexit Bishop to Chair Thatcher-Bashing Battle of Orgreave Inquiry <\/p>\n

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Over the weekend the government announced it will capitulate to the demands of left-wing campaigners and launch a national statutory inquiry into the Battle of Orgreave. Labour is bound<\/a> to do so by its manifesto\u2026<\/p>\n

Yvette Cooper said: \u201cI think the miners\u2019 strike still has deep scars across coalfield communities, and the decisions made at that time \u2013 the broadest decisions that were taken by the Thatcher government in the 1980s \u2013 the scars can still be felt across the coalfields.\u201d A taxpayer-funded exercise in Thatcher-bashing\u2026<\/p>\n

To that end Labour has appointed Bishop of Sheffield Pete Wilcox to chair the inquiry, which will be able to summon witnesses and which it intends to work the same as the Hillsborough Independent Panel. Wilcox previously attacked<\/a> the Tories and was naturally one of the bishops to put his name to an open letter<\/a> opposed to no-deal Brexit. Should get the intended results then\u2026<\/p>\n

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The Guardian is today taking credit<\/a> for getting the inquiry \u2013 whose costs will no doubt run into the tens then hundreds of millions. One hundred times harder to get a rape gangs inquiry out of Starmer than one into a 40-year old skirmish at a picket\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour Appoints Anti-Tory, Anti-Brexit Bishop to Chair Thatcher-Bashing Battle of Orgreave Inquiry mdi-fullscreen Over the weekend the government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[85080,802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-279576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-battle-of-orgreave","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114890452768726651","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}