DIANA : I BLAME THE FRENCH

This is the title of a comment by Ben Macintyre in The Times today.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article3412549.ece

Macintyre begins the comment;

"I have a conspiracy theory about the tragic and absurd waste of time, effort and money that is the interminable Diana story: it is all the fault of the French."

I cannot agree more with Macintyre on this comment on the French.

But the rest of the comment is classic establishment drivel, with the inevitable attack on the father of one of the victims of the crash.

There is no attempt made to address why the French did not instigate a fantastic investigation immediately, that very day. The mother of the future King of England dies in Paris in a suspicious crash. There was a fantastic opportunity to show the world what French investigation and justice personnel could do.

And they blew it!

Instead, they dithered, they bungled, they delayed, and eventually produced false and incomplete reports, so that here we are, over 10 years after the fatal crash, Diana finally gets an inquest into her death, but only thanks to the relentless pressure exerted by Mohammed al Fayed.

During those ten years, evidence has been destroyed or has 'disappeared' and in the case of the Mishcon note, evidence was deliberately withheld, James Andanson has been assassinated, and memories of witnesses have been corrupted or can be claimed to have been corrupted.

A lot of new evidence has been presented thus far.

And the thought of ten MI6 agents in the dock next week scares the shit of the establishment more than a government owning its own credit facility!

Hence the calls from the media to close the inquest because, as Macintyre hints, it has been a waste of time and money.

Next week is going to be very interesting.