In conclusion

Sir Ian Blair, Commissioner, made inaccurate public statements. He didn't do it deliberately. He did it accidentally. He employs fools and idiots who didn't keep him properly informed particularly as to what was not known. So that's okay.

Also allowance has to be made for the "heightened atmosphere". His comments in interviews were "ill-advised". Errors of judgement were made, but they were not deliberate (??!!??) so that's okay too. It seems Blair is after all fit to do this job and off the hook.

Curiously under other circumstances ignorance is deemed not to be a defence in law. And it does occur to me that if the same standard of latitude were granted to everyone under investigation or on trial for suspected wrong-doing this country's prison overcrowding problem could be solved almost over night. There's a message.

The statement has proceeded to put Blair's underling's out to dry, left swinging in the wind. What a fucking charmless disgrace. Where does the buck stop? Not that Blair's deputy is guiltless. It just makes me sick that Blair's getting the white wash while the deputy is tarred and feathered.

None of this could possibly be any comfort to the family of the Brazilian chap who was cut down by some of London's finest for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Left unrecognisable on the floor of a London underground train carriage. Identifiable only by DNA.

If this means nothing then you can read about Jean Charles de Menezes here at the BBC.