For months and even years now, ex PC James Patrick fought the law, and the law won. Whistleblower Extraordinaire, he exposed an undeniable truth, that CrimeStats were being routinely fiddled by a variety of people within the Met, and for a variety of different reasons, no doubt. Undeniable because 100s and thousands of us KNEW that he was telling the truth because we have lived through it, it was the ‘norm’.
At the end of the day it cost him his livelihood, it cost him his tranquillity, it cost him (in a manner of speaking) his reputation, because he now has a Disciplinary Finding of Guilt, which won’t exactly act as a reference if he ever decided that he wanted to rejoin the Police Service. In all the ways that matter, though, it has enhanced his personal and professional reputation immensely.
So, after a while Parliament conducted and enquiry/investigation into #CrimeStatsGate which culminated in yesterday’s news headline criticising the Met for its treatment of James. Bernard Jenkin MP told parliament ex-Met PC James Patrick was the victim of “monstrous injustice” and was “hounded” from his job.. Quite strong words really, don’t you think? Just because they are uttered with the benefit of Parliamentary Privilege doesn’t make them any less true.
“Mr Patrick had said crime figures had been manipulated and sexual offences were under-reported by 22-25%.” Errrrmm and how much have reports of Sexual Offences gone up by now? Surely there can’t be a connection? Can there?
To illustrate the enormity of James’ actions I will reproduce a selection of verbatim quotes from the transcript of PASC’s meeting yesterday;
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham) (Con): Although I am now a proud member of the Public Administration Committee, I was not a member when the report was done. Does my hon. Friend agree that PC James Patrick’s actions were both courageous and in the public interest, and that he has done a great service to this country in ensuring that this matter is highlighted, as the Committee has done?
Mr Jenkin: My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is worth emphasising that under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, PC Patrick should have been afforded some protection. I will come to the position of whistleblowers later in my remarks………………………………….We found strong evidence that the police have under-recorded crime, particularly sexual crime such as rape, in many police areas. There remain wide disparities in no-crime rates—that is, where police decide that a crime did not take place—following reports of rape, for example. In January 2014, Her Majesty’s inspectorate of constabulary, on behalf of the Rape Monitoring Group, released a compendium of statistics on recorded rapes in each force over the previous five years. I invite right hon. and hon. Friends and colleagues to look at the table showing how wide the variation is among different forces across England and Wales in their no-criming of rape. According to the figures, in Lincolnshire, for example, 26% of all reported rapes were no crimed in 2012-13; by contrast, in Merseyside, only 4% were. The national average was 11.9%…………………………….The main reason for misrecording was the continued prevalence of numerical targets. ………………
Our official police witnesses, most notably the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, were somewhat defensive and seemed unready to acknowledge that their statistics were inherently flawed. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe told us that the accuracy of data on rape and sexual offences was
“a lot better than it was, if we took it back five to 10 years.” [Well that’s alright then]……………..
even the Metropolitan Police Commissioner agrees that
“there is clearly something that PC Patrick raises that we need to get to the bottom of.”
Despite that, I can only describe the treatment of my constituent James Patrick as shameful. By doing his duty and raising the issues, he showed the highest commitment to the core policing values, but as a result he became the victim of the most monstrous injustice. He was in effect hounded out of his job, following a long period of harassment by the Metropolitan police command chain, which, I dare say, used and abused the disciplinary process to get rid of him. It does the police no credit that a whistleblower should be treated in such a way. He was, for example, accused of a conflict of interest for publishing a book about the misuse of police recorded crime statistics, even though the proceeds were paid to a police charity. In an LBC radio programme in December last year, Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said that he would meet PC Patrick. He never did so.
There is much, much more in the PASC document, but I think the above will suffice. I had never encountered Bernard Jenkin before James’ problems, but in the limited contact I have had with him he strikes me as being one of a rare breed, a decent and honourable politician. I just hope that I am not proved wrong.
So, Dear Reader, if you’re still with me at this point, just how despicable was James’ treatment at the hands of the Met? You decide.
This should make you smile James:- A new entry in Oxford English Dictionary perhaps; INTEGRITY – James Patrick, The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles:
Just a thought
MALICIOUS INTERDICTION
1 commandeers civil rights to aggrandize uncivil encroachment upon
targeted individuals,
2 is both strategic and tactical effecting presentation that is long term
and rapidly deployed in a localized area,
3 in the absence of probable cause, makes use of pretext as the basis of
an ambitious campaign to coerce capitulation on any number of
civil/protected rights,
4 penetrates county offices to develop official documentation to justify
setting aside constitutional rule of law with subsequent manifestation
of powers of ordinarily unlawful rendition,
5 is unrelated to any actual or real provocation or enticement to conflict on the part of the targeted individuals and may in fact be motivated largely by third parties seeking retaliation, those who may gain personally from the ensuing damage, or just to make an example of targeted individuals,
6 is sustained in perpetuity networked with individuals that form the
malicious interdiction cohort,
7 formulates an unlawful/unconstitutional administrative routine that
sets a precedence for at will rendition inclusive of SKIRTS; in this example,
pretext interdiction develops and practices the skills necessary for asset
resourcing paraphilia, sadopaedophilia and kidnapping for torture, and
8 establishes territorial supremacy of one group over another, in
particular malicious interdiction coerces change in conformity with
the will the primary mechanism of which is corruption of public
administration via locally and nationally syndicated fraternal
brotherhood cartels.
MALICIOUS INTERDICTION
1 commandeers civil rights to aggrandize uncivil encroachment upon
targeted individuals,
2 is both strategic and tactical effecting presentation that is long term
and rapidly deployed in a localized area,
3 in the absence of probable cause, makes use of pretext as the basis of
an ambitious campaign to coerce capitulation on any number of
civil/protected rights,
4 penetrates county offices to develop official documentation to justify
setting aside constitutional rule of law with subsequent manifestation
of powers of ordinarily unlawful rendition,
5 is unrelated to any actual or real provocation or enticement to conflict on the part of the targeted individuals and may in fact be motivated largely by third parties seeking retaliation, those who may gain personally from the ensuing damage, or just to make an example of targeted individuals,
6 is sustained in perpetuity networked with individuals that form the
malicious interdiction cohort,
7 formulates an unlawful/unconstitutional administrative routine that
sets a precedence for at will rendition inclusive of SKIRTS; in this example,
pretext interdiction develops and practices the skills necessary for asset
resourcing paraphilia, sadopaedophilia and kidnapping for torture, and
8 establishes territorial supremacy of one group over another, in
particular malicious interdiction coerces change in conformity with
the will the primary mechanism of which is corruption of public
administration via locally and nationally syndicated fraternal
brotherhood cartels.
Hi James,
Would you have time for a chat. I too have gone through a very similar experience with the MPS which led to my resignation in January.
I would very much like to speak to you to discuss this
Kind Regards
Paul
Hi James,
Would you have time for a chat. I too have gone through a very similar experience with the MPS which led to my resignation in January.
I would very much like to speak to you to discuss this
Kind Regards
Paul
Yes, if every colleague approached by, or who has approached, Alan has supported the allegations re dodgy crime stats, the colleagues whose views Keira has chosen to represent were probably not heard for the ‘completely different reason’ that they were among those complicit in the “long period of harassment by the Metropolitan police command chain” – and most likely included:
DI James Raphael
PS Iain Martin
DCI Iain Raphael
PS Ross Gibbings
Assistant Commissioner Simon Byrne
Inspector Mike Rawsthorn
Detective Superintendent Simon Laurence
Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Letchford
Commander Allan Gibson
Commander Peter Spindler
Commander Ephgrave
(http://jamesp79.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/withholding-evidence-from-parliament, http://retiredandangry.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/how-do-you-find-james-patrick-guilty-or-not-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-973)
The views of far more colleagues, in support of JP and in agreement with the allegations, are definitely not represented by Keira. These 63 (mostly) ex-Met officers, for example, wished openly to express their anger at the vindictiveness exhibited by their previous employer:
1 Alan Wright ex Met
2 Sharon Birch ex Met
3 Stephen Birch ex Met
4 Pat Brennen ex Met
5 Helen Bradburn ex Met
6 Brian Adamson ex Met
7 Willie Mohan ex Met
8 Chris Glossop ex Met
9 Stephen Southwell ex Met
10 Pauline Weddle ex Met
11 Paul Jefford ex Met
12 Adam Watts ex Met
13 Steve Dennis ex Met
14 Charles Walker ex Met
15 Peter Oldham ex Met
16 Phil Herdman ex Met
17 Ian Templeton ex Met
18 John West ex Met
19 Peter Neale ex Met
20 John Piggot ex Met
21 Neil Frame ex Met
22 Jackie Hastings ex Met
23 Mike Pannett ex Met
24 Eric Halfhide ex Met
25 Karen McGarry ex Met
26 Frances Wallace ex Met
27 Colin Biggar ex Met
28 Robert Southgate ex Met
29 Mark Cook ex Met
30 Andrew Holland ex Met
31 Mark Wood ex Met
32 Frank Jennings ex Met
33 Helen Bradburn ex Met
34 John Barron ex Met
35 Lobby Thornton ex Met
36 Karen Dunnett ex Met
37 Christopher Pengelly ex Met
38 William Sharpe ex Met
39 Ian Giles ex Met
40 Maurice McPhillimey ex Met
41 Colin Greenlees ex Met
42 Doug Vieweg ex Met
43 Ian McDonald ex Met
44 Karen Gilmour ex Met
45 Stephen Blue Hake ex Met
46 Richard Hutchinson ex Met
47 Ian Maw ex Met
48 Peter Burnell ex Met
49 Paul Baker ex Met
50 Steve Bennett ex West Midlands
51 Clive Bishop ex Met
52 Pete Plumb
53 Paul Shinnick ex Met
54 Michael Platts ex Met
55 Hamish Boyd ex Met
56 David Pengelly ex Met
57 Chris Hobbs ex Met
58 Steve Highton ex Met
59 Mark Acford
60 Cameron McCann ex Met
61 Geoff Beale ex Met
62 W.Glyn Thomas ex PS54″C”
63 Duncan Reid, ex Met 30yrs
(http://effiemerryl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/in-support-of-police-whistle-blower-pc.html)
I think that makes a point Keira
Thank you all that have responded so far.
I am not so much as anti Mr Patrick as pro hearing more than just the one side of the story, and pointing out that there are gaps in Mr Patrick’s account doesn’t mean he is totally wrong.
A Conservative MP has made a strong attack on the integrity of the Police Federation and singled out their behaviour as the most shameful aspect of this case – their silence in light of this attack indicates that we (or at least me) don’t yet know the whole story in this affair.
A truth is no less true because it is inconvenient and the elephant in the room in this affair is the silence of the Fed.
Quite right Keil, I for one would love to hear the Fedeation’s explanation. Maybe they’ll provide one one day.
Yes, if every colleague approached by, or who has approached, Alan has supported the allegations re dodgy crime stats, the colleagues whose views Keira has chosen to represent were probably not heard for the ‘completely different reason’ that they were among those complicit in the “long period of harassment by the Metropolitan police command chain” – and most likely included:
DI James Raphael
PS Iain Martin
DCI Iain Raphael
PS Ross Gibbings
Assistant Commissioner Simon Byrne
Inspector Mike Rawsthorn
Detective Superintendent Simon Laurence
Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Letchford
Commander Allan Gibson
Commander Peter Spindler
Commander Ephgrave
(http://jamesp79.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/withholding-evidence-from-parliament, http://retiredandangry.wordpress.com/2013/11/25/how-do-you-find-james-patrick-guilty-or-not-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-973)
The views of far more colleagues, in support of JP and in agreement with the allegations, are definitely not represented by Keira. These 63 (mostly) ex-Met officers, for example, wished openly to express their anger at the vindictiveness exhibited by their previous employer:
1 Alan Wright ex Met
2 Sharon Birch ex Met
3 Stephen Birch ex Met
4 Pat Brennen ex Met
5 Helen Bradburn ex Met
6 Brian Adamson ex Met
7 Willie Mohan ex Met
8 Chris Glossop ex Met
9 Stephen Southwell ex Met
10 Pauline Weddle ex Met
11 Paul Jefford ex Met
12 Adam Watts ex Met
13 Steve Dennis ex Met
14 Charles Walker ex Met
15 Peter Oldham ex Met
16 Phil Herdman ex Met
17 Ian Templeton ex Met
18 John West ex Met
19 Peter Neale ex Met
20 John Piggot ex Met
21 Neil Frame ex Met
22 Jackie Hastings ex Met
23 Mike Pannett ex Met
24 Eric Halfhide ex Met
25 Karen McGarry ex Met
26 Frances Wallace ex Met
27 Colin Biggar ex Met
28 Robert Southgate ex Met
29 Mark Cook ex Met
30 Andrew Holland ex Met
31 Mark Wood ex Met
32 Frank Jennings ex Met
33 Helen Bradburn ex Met
34 John Barron ex Met
35 Lobby Thornton ex Met
36 Karen Dunnett ex Met
37 Christopher Pengelly ex Met
38 William Sharpe ex Met
39 Ian Giles ex Met
40 Maurice McPhillimey ex Met
41 Colin Greenlees ex Met
42 Doug Vieweg ex Met
43 Ian McDonald ex Met
44 Karen Gilmour ex Met
45 Stephen Blue Hake ex Met
46 Richard Hutchinson ex Met
47 Ian Maw ex Met
48 Peter Burnell ex Met
49 Paul Baker ex Met
50 Steve Bennett ex West Midlands
51 Clive Bishop ex Met
52 Pete Plumb
53 Paul Shinnick ex Met
54 Michael Platts ex Met
55 Hamish Boyd ex Met
56 David Pengelly ex Met
57 Chris Hobbs ex Met
58 Steve Highton ex Met
59 Mark Acford
60 Cameron McCann ex Met
61 Geoff Beale ex Met
62 W.Glyn Thomas ex PS54″C”
63 Duncan Reid, ex Met 30yrs
(http://effiemerryl.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/in-support-of-police-whistle-blower-pc.html)
I think that makes a point Keira
Thank you all that have responded so far.
I am not so much as anti Mr Patrick as pro hearing more than just the one side of the story, and pointing out that there are gaps in Mr Patrick’s account doesn’t mean he is totally wrong.
A Conservative MP has made a strong attack on the integrity of the Police Federation and singled out their behaviour as the most shameful aspect of this case – their silence in light of this attack indicates that we (or at least me) don’t yet know the whole story in this affair.
A truth is no less true because it is inconvenient and the elephant in the room in this affair is the silence of the Fed.
Quite right Keil, I for one would love to hear the Fedeation’s explanation. Maybe they’ll provide one one day.
You are quite right Keira, some of his colleagues have not been heard.
Why not?
They’ve not been heard throughout the period (over 2 years) in which JP was trying to alert his bosses & the Govt that crime figures are being fiddled, victims of rape persuaded to withdraw their claims, rapists therefore free to rape someone else, decisions based on fraudulent figures used to misdirect scarce manpower during the riots, etc.
Did his silent colleagues judge these claims false?
If true, why weren’t his colleagues ever heard loudly corroborating them?
Or were they merely annoyed he’d spoken out & so peevishly withheld any support?
Many retired officers confirmed the claims by JP are true and even many not-yet-retired officers communicated their agreement, even if only sometimes privately. But all expressed fury at his unjust treatment.
Why have his colleagues, in particular, not been heard in support of JP against what Bernard Jenkin MP describes as the “monstrous injustice” against him by his employer?
“He was in effect hounded out of his job, following a long period of harassment by the Metropolitan police command chain, which, I dare say, used and abused the disciplinary process to get rid of him”
You are quite right Keira, some of his colleagues have not been heard.
I suggest the colleagues whose views you’ve chosen to represent have not been heard for a completely different reason to any you are trying to insinuate.
Every colleague I have spoken to supports James’ allegations re CrimeStats because they know it is true. I have not heard one single person voicing the opposite view
You are quite right Keira, some of his colleagues have not been heard.
Why not?
They’ve not been heard throughout the period (over 2 years) in which JP was trying to alert his bosses & the Govt that crime figures are being fiddled, victims of rape persuaded to withdraw their claims, rapists therefore free to rape someone else, decisions based on fraudulent figures used to misdirect scarce manpower during the riots, etc.
Did his silent colleagues judge these claims false?
If true, why weren’t his colleagues ever heard loudly corroborating them?
Or were they merely annoyed he’d spoken out & so peevishly withheld any support?
Many retired officers confirmed the claims by JP are true and even many not-yet-retired officers communicated their agreement, even if only sometimes privately. But all expressed fury at his unjust treatment.
Why have his colleagues, in particular, not been heard in support of JP against what Bernard Jenkin MP describes as the “monstrous injustice” against him by his employer?
“He was in effect hounded out of his job, following a long period of harassment by the Metropolitan police command chain, which, I dare say, used and abused the disciplinary process to get rid of him”
You are quite right Keira, some of his colleagues have not been heard.
I suggest the colleagues whose views you’ve chosen to represent have not been heard for a completely different reason to any you are trying to insinuate.
Every colleague I have spoken to supports James’ allegations re CrimeStats because they know it is true. I have not heard one single person voicing the opposite view
I’m not sure that this counts as the last word, Alan.
At the moment anyone who has followed this story has only heard one side (Mr Patricks) while other parties (and there are a few) have kept their counsel about this issue.
Supporters of Mr Patrick, like yourself, do yourself no favours by cherry picking the aspects of the case that support your case (Mr Patrick Good (Hurrah!) – Metropolitan Police Bad (Booo!)) while conveniently ignoring other aspects (and, again, there are a few) which don’t support that view.
For example, in this case, you have chosen the parts of Mr Jenkin’s speech that suit your case, while ignoring the parts which don’t. As Mr Jenkins told the Commons; the most shameful aspect of this case has been the lack of support from the Police Federation.
I suspect that if you unpick the decisions of the Police Federation a very different picture of Mr Patrick’s story (i.e. the views of his colleagues) will begin to emerge. Until now, those views have not been heard.
It’s like hearing a case solely on the evidence and submissions of the defence.
This may be the last word from the supporters of Mr Patrick (I doubt it) but we have yet to hear the full facts.
Just because some parties in this matter have remained silent, it doesn’t follow that the only one speaking is telling the whole story.
You are quite right Keira, I made a deliberate decision not to clutter up my blog with a verbatim transcript of Mr Jenkin (and others’) statements, but it is a publicly available document and readers are at liberty to seek it out and establish the full context for themselves. Speaking for myself I would welcome statements on this issue from both the Met and the Metropolitan Police Federation on the case of Mr Patrick, to date I have yet to see a comprehensive explanation from either party. There is a perfectly valid reason why I have not criticised the Federation more, but you would be unaware of that reason, and I don’t see that I have a requirement to share that with someone who appears to ‘hide’ behind a disposable email address.
I’m not sure that this counts as the last word, Alan.
At the moment anyone who has followed this story has only heard one side (Mr Patricks) while other parties (and there are a few) have kept their counsel about this issue.
Supporters of Mr Patrick, like yourself, do yourself no favours by cherry picking the aspects of the case that support your case (Mr Patrick Good (Hurrah!) – Metropolitan Police Bad (Booo!)) while conveniently ignoring other aspects (and, again, there are a few) which don’t support that view.
For example, in this case, you have chosen the parts of Mr Jenkin’s speech that suit your case, while ignoring the parts which don’t. As Mr Jenkins told the Commons; the most shameful aspect of this case has been the lack of support from the Police Federation.
I suspect that if you unpick the decisions of the Police Federation a very different picture of Mr Patrick’s story (i.e. the views of his colleagues) will begin to emerge. Until now, those views have not been heard.
It’s like hearing a case solely on the evidence and submissions of the defence.
This may be the last word from the supporters of Mr Patrick (I doubt it) but we have yet to hear the full facts.
Just because some parties in this matter have remained silent, it doesn’t follow that the only one speaking is telling the whole story.
You are quite right Keira, I made a deliberate decision not to clutter up my blog with a verbatim transcript of Mr Jenkin (and others’) statements, but it is a publicly available document and readers are at liberty to seek it out and establish the full context for themselves. Speaking for myself I would welcome statements on this issue from both the Met and the Metropolitan Police Federation on the case of Mr Patrick, to date I have yet to see a comprehensive explanation from either party. There is a perfectly valid reason why I have not criticised the Federation more, but you would be unaware of that reason, and I don’t see that I have a requirement to share that with someone who appears to ‘hide’ behind a disposable email address.
Integrity shock – it’s not enough – only integritty has a chance
“This has infected the heart of government itself. There are lots and lots and lots of good, ethical people who hate what is happening. I know ethical police officers who have talked about resisting political pressures, and it’s difficult. They may be scandalised and even suffer personally at the hands of those who realise their career ambitions by cynically playing the numbers game.”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/12/police-officers-fiddling-crime-statistics-england-wales-figures
Integrity shock – it’s not enough – only integritty has a chance
“This has infected the heart of government itself. There are lots and lots and lots of good, ethical people who hate what is happening. I know ethical police officers who have talked about resisting political pressures, and it’s difficult. They may be scandalised and even suffer personally at the hands of those who realise their career ambitions by cynically playing the numbers game.”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/12/police-officers-fiddling-crime-statistics-england-wales-figures
Yes, do like your closing thought..!
An updated entry in the Oxford English Dictionary perhaps?
INTEGRITTY – James Patrick, The quality of being honest, having strong moral principles and facing your tormentor (dementor..) on LBC with true grit.
http://www.standard.co.uk/panewsfeeds/whistleblower-confronts-met-chief-9264234.html
Yes, do like your closing thought..!
An updated entry in the Oxford English Dictionary perhaps?
INTEGRITTY – James Patrick, The quality of being honest, having strong moral principles and facing your tormentor (dementor..) on LBC with true grit.
http://www.standard.co.uk/panewsfeeds/whistleblower-confronts-met-chief-9264234.html
Future Whistleblowers, look on the works of Norman Baker and despair.
Andrew Turner, MP
“which Metropolitan police body was responsible for the treatment of the person involved, leading to his departure?”
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2014-10-16a.141.0#g166.2
Home Office Minister, Norman Baker
“I am not in a position to go into the case of PC James Patrick in great detail..”
WHY NOT?
PC Patrick is an ex PC, he doesn’t parrott for the Met. He never did. He has no outstanding case against the Met. No legal considerations justify such slippery reticence.
Norman, why don’t you ever go into it in some (if ‘great’ is too onerous) detail?
Why don’t you ever go into it in ANY detail?
Because, Norm, you continue to cover up for the perpetrators. And you’ll persist until they get away with it – Scot free – won’t you?
So your hollow words about upholding the truth and your retrospective actions, poorly designed to be seen to be ‘ahead of the game’, merely show the Govt still has no genuine interest in protecting or promoting those who still take the trouble to speak it.
Future Whistleblowers, look on the works of Norman Baker and despair.
Andrew Turner, MP
“which Metropolitan police body was responsible for the treatment of the person involved, leading to his departure?”
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2014-10-16a.141.0#g166.2
Home Office Minister, Norman Baker
“I am not in a position to go into the case of PC James Patrick in great detail..”
WHY NOT?
PC Patrick is an ex PC, he doesn’t parrott for the Met. He never did. He has no outstanding case against the Met. No legal considerations justify such slippery reticence.
Norman, why don’t you ever go into it in some (if ‘great’ is too onerous) detail?
Why don’t you ever go into it in ANY detail?
Because, Norm, you continue to cover up for the perpetrators. And you’ll persist until they get away with it – Scot free – won’t you?
So your hollow words about upholding the truth and your retrospective actions, poorly designed to be seen to be ‘ahead of the game’, merely show the Govt still has no genuine interest in protecting or promoting those who still take the trouble to speak it.
Conservative Chair of select committee in effect – and oh so politely – accuses the Home Office and the Government of LYING
Home Office Minister, Norman Baker
“Last year, before the Select Committee’s inquiry began, the Home Secretary commissioned HMIC to undertake a detailed inspection of crime recording in every police force.”
Bernard Jenkin, PASC Chair
“HMIC was not specifically tasked with that responsibility until after our inquiry started. There has been some retrospective interpretation of what HMIC was asked to do, as HMIC was tasked to do that only after our report got going. I understand why everyone is a bit defensive about what our inquiry started to uncover, and the Government want to be seen to be ahead of the game, but I honestly believe that he is inadvertently misleading the House”
NOT specifically tasked..
AFTER our inquiry started..
RETROSPECTIVE INTERPRETATION..
ONLY AFTER our report..
DEFENSIVE about what our inquiry started to uncover..
Government want to be SEEN TO BE ahead of the game.,
I honestly believe that he is inadvertently MISLEADING THE HOUSE
(the added word “inadvertently” is what passes for politeness in Tory circles..)
The Tories are liars. The honest ones not only know this. They admit it. They even say so in public. They see that defensive lies by Govt must no longer wash..