Five months after the end of the conflict there is still no

Five months after the end of the conflict, there is still no evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and last week’s bombing of the United Nations’ headquarters in Baghdad showed the peace is far from won.And as long as the situation there stubbornly refuses to improve, the questioning of the motives for this war will not go away. For everyone else, it is the only chance to find some clues to the burning question of why and how we entered this war.While Hutton may satisfy its own narrow remit, the shadow agenda will remain half hidden. This suits the Government perfectly, because as long as the press is focussing on who said what to whom, they are not focussing on the dreadful situation in Iraq. The Government will want to insist that it remains focused on the specific events of Dr Kelly’s apparent suicide. However, it’s worth remembering that, unlike in the United States and Australia where hearings on decisions leading to war are taking place, in this country it took the death of Dr David Kelly for this to happen.
Much of the undue interest caused by the Hutton inquiry could have been avoided if the Government had agreed to calls by the Lib Dems for an inquiry immediately following the war.The Government refused to investigate the questions that were on the minds of most people: why did we go to war? Did the Prime Minister mislead the House of Commons and the country over Iraq? And, exactly when did he make the decision to commit troops alongside the US?Not addressing these questions in a straightforward manner means that the purpose of the Hutton inquiry is blurred. The Hutton inquiry has provided us with an unprecedented glimpse into the workings of the Whitehall machine and things will only become more fascinating next week when Tony Blairgives evidence.

It’s not a lot to ask, and if, in order to do this, it means issuing locals and officials with video cameras, then so be it. No doubt SMG productions will be trying to buy the footage in due course.. They simply want the tour operators, the tour reps, and their clientele to sober up and treat their country with a little respect. Although the Greek authorities have been criticised for allowing defendants to buy their way out of sentences of under two years, it is clear that the Greeks have no intention of filling their jails with British teenagers. She was charged with indecent exposure but her parents immediately flew out to the resort and bought out her prison sentence for £1,675. The reps in the fellatio event were filmed by a local businessman who handed the tape to the police as evidence and Gemma Gunning, the 18-year-old student who stripped naked in a “Miss Bottom” contest, was secretly filmed by detectives who promptly arrested her. The Greeks were also aware that their country was being broadcast to the British nation as a hellhole of corruption.Now, after the fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old youth in a drunken brawl, the locals have decided to shoot back with their very own version of reality TV.

As they camped it up for the cameras in their heads, the tour operators and their teenage fan club forgot that they were not in the Big Brother house but on a small island in Greece where – and is it any wonder? – the locals were getting more and more incensed by their lewd and drunken behaviour. In early August, holiday reps outraged the local community when two female reps performed oral sex on two male colleagues on a stage on a public beach as hundreds of shocked holidaymakers looked on. They couldn’t simply escort their punters around and tell them when it was time to go to bed. They had to make sure everyone had fun, so they upped the ante Big time. That’s 10 free drinks for little Gemma before she starts on the slammers that her new best friends have just set up on the bar for her.Unused to such large quantities of alcohol, inhibitions were shed as hordes of British teenagers lived out the Club Reps fantasy And the reps joined in. If the club reps took groups of tourists into local bars they got a commission from the owners and the tourists got a free drink. The reps soon realised that if they kept up the pace they could usher their ashen troops to up to 10 bars in one night.