The total expenditure since 2009 is £10,375,000. Printed copies of the report can be ordered for £767. However family members of British soldiers who died in the war will receive the 12 volume tome for free.
£10m??? Wow
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I quite like the Harry Potter books, but if they srs expect me to read the whoe series again twice over, they’ve got another thing coming.
Putting aside the detail and just looking at the cost.
If someone came to me and said produce a report on…the state of park benches in Southampton, for instance, I could say, right, I’ll need a couple of people to go out and have a look, I’ll need to speak to various authorities, I could produce some photographic evidence, but I’ll need a year to do this, (even though it could be done in a month).
The inflated cost for that could be £100k, but not several million!
So why do all of these things become massive gravy trains where everyone charges ludicrous fees for as long as they can drag it out?
It’s a complete pisstake.
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I reckon its odds on that Bliar will come out of it with only a slapped wrist and a stern talking to for being a naughty boy…
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£767 for a copy! Fucking hell that’s expensive for a book. Is there just a limited number of copies? It might be worth buying if there’s only 200 available. Could be a sound investment, take it onto Antiques Roadshow in 40 years time.
world be worth even more if you could get Blair to sign a copy.
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I’ve just spent £105 on a book about old Southampton two weeks ago…and I hasn’t arrived yet. That’s a single volume; second hand so £767 doesn’t seem too steep for a brand new set. 
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hmmm, so you think I should get a copy then?
Were you never fleeced for the Encyclopedia Brittanica?
Going on what’s been said so far I don’t think that sounds likely.
Mind you Pistorious got 6 years for murder so who the fuck knows…
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Every aspect of the war from the reasons, the legality, the planning, the equipment, the lack of future planning - everything seems to have been, in Chilcot’s words, a half-arsed clusterfuck…
It’s fair to say that Tony doesn’t come out of it terribly well…not that I’ve read the whole thing!
Unless the establishment has has decided to make Bliar the sacrificial goat, then I can’t see him ever being prosecuted as a war criminal though. Being a very naughty boy? Yes , but anything else, no. Not wearing my tin foil hat, it seems our powermongers always look after their own.
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He may not ever get tried as a war criminal, but that report is damning, confirming what many of us suspected at the time and an even wilder claim that was bunged about later.
We didn’t exhaust all non-military options. We were with the US President and his neocon hawks “whatever”.
Sorry Tone, but that’s just total fucking subservience.
Vassal state.
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I’m not sure you need your hat, no one could disagree with the fact that senior politicians cover up for each other…
Pap - you like a lost cause, go for it.
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Lamb cs. Lamb.
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Don’t be too parochial gang.
I’m pretty sure there are a lot of lawyers in other countries who will start pouring over that report. The Iraqi people and Government for one.
Not just War Crimes, but Personal Liability for the Billions of dollars of damage caused.
Anyway, point is whatever happens in this life is irrelevant, Blair can now go and join other scum rotting in hell when the Great Entity in the Sky gives him his call.
Gonna be a long hot summer of Politics peeps
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Originally posted by @Goatboy
Originally posted by @cobham-saint
Originally posted by @BTripz
Originally posted by @cobham-saint
I reckon its odds on that Bliar will come out of it with only a slapped wrist and a stern talking to for being a naughty boy…
Going on what’s been said so far I don’t think that sounds likely.
Mind you Pistorious got 6 years for murder so who the fuck knows…
Unless the establishment has has decided to make Bliar the sacrificial goat, then I can’t see him ever being prosecuted as a war criminal though. Being a very naughty boy? Yes , but anything else, no. Not wearing my tin foil hat, it seems our powermongers always look after their own.
Lamb cs. Lamb.
See previous thread about goats 
Thought it more topical…
Mind you I wouldn’t want to compare Bliar to a lamb.
Cameron is in Parliament now summarising the report. He’s being much easier on Blair than he could have been, but it is damning all the same, especially the part about Tony’s unilateral promise to Bush on behalf of the nation.
I got a freebie of Robin Butlers report… Mrs Gay worked with him for a while when he was master of University College, Oxford… its not a gread read…