'' Get away from me, I will not be insulted by you, this is an insult'."
This is not unexpected, but still disgusting.
A survivor of 7/7 began her blog http://rachelnorthlondon.blogspot.com/
shortly after then.
Her latest blog tells of an incident between her father, a gentle man
and parish priest, and Home Secretary Charles Clarke. Clarke is
actually her father's MP, which makes this incident even more
grotesque. Rachel's father recently attended a service at Norwich
Cathedral at which Clarke was the invited speaker. Rachel's father
thought the whole Q&A session afterwards was scripted, with a half hour
filled by just three questions, each answered by Clarke in a
self-congratulatory way, allowing Clarke to boast of Government
initiatives etc.
After the Q&A session Clarke tried to make a break for it before he
could be asked some REAL questions, but he failed. Rachel's father just
managed to catch Clarke before he left.
What happened then is a prime example of how this government treats its
electors with utter contempt.
From http://rachelnorthlondon.blogspot.com/2006/03/this-is-insult.html
...My father tells me he at this point left his seat and strode up to
Clarke, because he wanted to ask his question, and he said,
''Congratulations on fixing the meeting so that nobody can ask questions! You will have heard about Rev Julie Nicholson who is so angry she cannot forgive the bombers who killed her daughter on 7th July , well, I have a question, my daughter was feet away from the 7/7 Kings Cross bomb, and she and some other surivors have said they are not angry with the bombers, but with the Government, because there was no public enquiry. Why is there no public enquiry?''
Charles Clarke looked at my father ''in a very nasty way'', and then he said to my father
' Get away from me, I will not be insulted by you, this is an insult'.
And he stormed past, and Dad was so upset he could not share Eucharist with this man,
and my father left the cathedral in despair.
This pisses me off not just because Clarke is Home Secretary and the man's MP, but it is men like Clarke who are using 7/7 as an excuse to introduce ID Cards. And yet here he is dismissing the father of a survivor of 7/7 without giving a straightforward answer to a perfectly valid question about an inquiry and accusing the father of insulting him!!
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