From Hillsborough to pesticides
Establishment cover-ups, lies and corruption
Downs, Georgina
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987648/from_hillsborough_to_pesticides_establishment_coverups_lies_and_corruption.html
Date Written: 2016-05-04
Publisher: The Ecologist
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX19409
The British establishment does nothing quite so well as lies, cover-ups and high-level corruption - whether it's the Hillsborough disaster or permitting polluters to poison us. Georgina Downs won her own High Court legal victory protecting rural residents from pesticide exposure as long ago as 2008 - only to have it snatched away as Court of Appeal judges closed ranks.