Like the Bloody Sunday inquiry,the Hillsborough verdict proves that determined working people can shame the powers that beWhen it finally came, it took less than 27 minutes. So simple, and so powerful,so emphatic and so obviously just. So why on earth did it take 27 years to reach? I am not the only one who needs to ask this question. Every MP, every journalist – indeed the whole country – needs to keep on asking it too. That’s because until there is a broadly shared consensus on how the breathtaking injustice of Hillsborough happened, and we will not be able to get this the moment of change for our country that it needs to be.
The simple truth approximately 15 April 1989 and its aftermath has been sitting quietly in official files for all those years. If the state had wanted the families to occupy it earlier,it only had to say the word. But it didn’t. Parts of it still don’t. And that says something very worrying approximately how we are governed and policed.
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Source: theguardian.com