[Closed] What, nothing on Chilcot yet?

Well it didn't really tell us anything we didn't already know, did it?

Try search or page 2

Has anyone read it all yet?!

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/chilcot-report-july-6th

bails - Member

Has anyone read it all yet?!

I doubt it, it's 2.6m words long, it would take about 180 hours to read it all at the average reading speed or 7.5 days, none-stop.

If they put a resercher on it, reading 8 hours a day, 5 days a week - it would take a month to just get through it all, but that's without making notes, fact checking etc.

There's an 150 page summary, but I would hope someone credible will pay a team to go through it word-by-word.

There's an 150 page summary, but I would hope someone credible will pay a team to go through it word-by-word.

I was interested that the BBC website, in the same vein as looking for eyewitness reports from the public, was asking if anyone's read the report and spotted something they haven't mentioned yet could they bring it to their attention.

Are you looking through the Chilcot Report? Have you spotted something which hasn't yet been covered by BBC News? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your comments and page reference numbers.

Wonder if any of the 2.6 million words bring this into question:

[b]The Queen also vetoed entirely a private member’s Bill, the Military Actions Against Iraq (Parliamentary Approval) Bill 1999, that would have transfered the power to authorise military strikes against Iraq from the monarch to Parliament[/b]

It is widely assumed that the royal prerogative, the authority to declare war, rests now with the prime minister rather than the Queen herself.

However, these documents raise questions about how much power the monarch still has over the elected government of the day.

Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert said the fact there had been a “fight to to keep this quiet” showed the significance of the Whitehall document.

“It’s quite concerning there is wider influence, and secretive influence, of the monarchy in these things than had previously been revealed,”

Worth remembering the Queen is commander in chief of the Armed Forces (in Australia, Canada+NZ too, among others) and is privy to Joint Intelligence Comittee meetings and reports.

Not forgetting the weekly meetings between the Queen and the Prime Minister of Her Majesty's Government:

I have nearly finished the Exec Summary (150 pages) have also downloaded various other sections, probably another 200 pages. (All pdf download and sync to iPad)

There is the other thread ...

"I have nearly finished the Exec Summary (150 pages)"

Seriously; don't you have a life?