"Amber Rudd was right to leave Orgreve in the past." Simon Jenkins. (546)

To the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary:
For Clarity - Attempt 546.

546) "Amber Rudd was right to leave Orgreave in the past." Simon Jenkins.
(Guardian 02/11/2016)

Dear Mr Clark,

Amber Rudd was wrong to leave Orgreave in the past but from his unpleasant little article we now know that Simon Jenkins is an Orgreave Denier and now takes his place alongside the likes of Mrs Rudd, the Chingford Skinhead and Lord Tarzan which is exalted company indeed.

Wielding his history airbrush like a South Yorkshire copper's truncheon, he set about Mr Burnham for having the courage and temerity to seek to take on The Establishment in what is now post-Brexit Britain. Isn't this what 17 million voted for? To take back control and show their growing anger and dissatisfaction with a remote, indifferent and self-serving Establishment? An Establishment that works assiduously to cover-up its crimes and misdemeanours?

Simon Jenkins' assault on Mr Burnham began with a snide put-down that;
"Those who can't rule today try to rule yesterday."
Calling for a public inquiry into the events surrounding the Battle of Orgreave is not trying to rule yesterday. It's simply calling for a light to be shone on not just the South Yorkshire police but also on the politicians at Westminster who were orchestrating those appalling events.

An ombudsman handing a complainant an illogical final decision is an appalling event.

A healthcare worker handing a patient an unexplained decision is also an appalling event.

Who will shine a light on these latest on-going scandals? Not Simon Jenkins that's for sure.

His support for the Home Secretar's cover-up continued with;
"This week's demand by Labour's Andy Burnham for a show trial of police tactics at the battle of Orgreave 32 years ago was a piece of pure politics."
Asking for a public inquiry in Simon Jenkins' less than objective apology for the illegalities of 1984, becomes a demand for a show trial. Wrong again Mr Jenkins. Public inquiries are not show trials. Don't confuse the two. However, by clumsily seeking to establish this fictitious link, he has sought to undermine the key role of public inquiries in attempting to hold the unaccountable to account. A thought that clearly terrifies him.

But if there is any purity in politics, asking for a public inquiry into events surrounding Orgreave 32 years ago, is - we believe - approaching it.

We're asking for a public inquiry into the RICS and its, "appointed" company Ombudsman Services:Property, not demanding it. We suspect that Orgreave Deniers like Simon Jenkins are by some extraordinary coincidence also Illogical Final Decision Deniers too.

His next swipe was to say;
"We know what happened at Orgreave."
Wrong again. We don't know what happened behind the scenes at Orgreave and if Orgreave Deniers like Mr Jenkins continue to have their way, we never will. Which serves to illustrate just how urgent such an inquiry is and how right Andy Burnham was in calling for one.

Thanks to DJS Research we have some knowledge of what happened - and is happening - at Ombudsman Services:Property but (as Simon Jenkins brought the matter up) isn't it strange that no junior minister at the BIS (or senior one for that matter) has sought to speak out about it. It's an Orgreave in the making. There would appear to be an awful lot of Illogical Final Decision Deniers out there busily working to undermine our fragile democracy whilst at the same time further entrenching rigged market capitalism and the interests of those tax avoiders who benefit from it.

Why don't you write about that Simon Jenkins?

Next;
"The police reaction to the miners' union picketing was excessive. But this fact has been examined, fought over and iconised for decades."
Yes, the police reaction was excessive and so were their rigged statements and perjury. Those facts haven't been examined by Orgreave Deniers like Mr Jenkins with his misrepresentations and thinly disguised contempt for the campaigners but they serve to show how concerned the Establishment is to keep it unexamined.

Buried in the lowest level of the deepest closed mine.

In his piece there's no mention of his icon, Mrs Thatcher, or how she brought harmony to the nation at that troubled time.

The bludgeoning continues and Andy Burnham becomes reduced to, "Burnham." It's now time for Mr Jenkins to shoot the messenger;
"Why does Burnham suddenly want an inquiry into Orgreave ...."
Probably, Simon Jenkins, because he, like us, believes that transparency and accountability are an essential part of our democracy. You quite clearly don't.

And so it went on and on in a similar vein.

Perhaps an ex-miner could kindly donate his miner's lamp to Mr Jenkins - it might help bring some light to the pit he inhabits.

Q. Mr Clark, when are you going to step up and challenge the vested interests of the RICS and its creature, Ombudsman Services:Property and shed some light on their illogical Final Decisions and maladministration?

Yours sincerely,
Steve Gilbert - The Ombudsmans61percent Campaign.