That's Bad Timing.

Today (13/7/11) in Britain the government has announced the results of a new review into the 1994 Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash. This was when a faulty Royal Air Force (RAF) Chinook helicopter crashed in Scotland killing 25 of the top police and military experts in Northern Irish intelligence and security.

Obviously in this incident the Ministry of Defence (MoD) made a large number of very serious mistakes including putting that many VIP's on the same aircraft and operating a faulty aircraft. However rather then taking responsibility for those mistakes the MoD decided to cover the whole thing up by falsely claiming the crash had been the fault of the two pilots who also died. The MoD then spent the next few years thoroughly destroying the reputation of the two pilots in the media and condemning their families to a 17 year battle for justice. Today the MoD finally admitted that the pilots were in no way at fault and apologised to their families although there is no suggestion that those who were at fault will be punished in any way.

Obviously this announcement is a good thing but it comes at a highly embarrassing time for the government because for the last two weeks they been telling the public that they should be outraged that newspapers had been hacking the phone messages of the families of dead British soldiers who were battling the MoD for justice.

Speaking of which after weeks of British politicians and the other parts of the British media telling everyone how the British public are outraged at the phone hacking someone's actually gone and spoken to members of the British public. The mood is best described as one of general indifference. So clearly there is nothing the Labour Party won't sacrifice in their desperate quest to get back into power.