And on Friday we heard of four MPs ganging up in an extraordinary alliance to have

And on Friday we heard of four MPs ganging up in an extraordinary alliance to have a football club manager sacked.Free country it may be, but surely there’s a limit to the amount of intervention sport should have to suffer from those who make a living from frying their own fish, grinding their own axes and singing from a personal hymn sheet.If there wasn’t a firm rein on my imagination I would be accusing the politicians who protested against Tyson’s visit of giving a free demonstration of their power to hype up an event in order to generate future business. Furthermore, as we have witnessed over the past week, when more than one appears there is a virulent multiplying factor.
Hence, the furore over the visit of Mike Tyson that profits no one except the ogre himself and the promoters of his fight with the British champion, Julius Francis, in Manchester on 29 January.The day before that we had the spectacle of Manchester United’s slide into ignominy in a Brazilian venture that was purely political. There are few situations in sport that cannot be made worse by the arrival of a politician on the scene. Furthermore, as we have witnessed over the past week, when more than one appears there is a virulent multiplying factor. There are few situations in sport that cannot be made worse by the arrival of a politician on the scene. If that report had come to light 30 years ago, it would have made a huge difference to my court case.

It’s now time for a public inquiry,” said Mr Griffiths last week.The report has prompted other former workers to reappraise their own illnesses. Andrew Ferris, 61, was aresearcher in Nancekuke’s test laboratories from 1955 to 1957. He is only now linking his persistent bronchitis to a nerve gas leak from what he believes was faulty equipment “I received a 60 to 70 per cent fatal dose,” he said “Now I would just like some answers.”. The MoD admitted negligence in 1971 but has denied Mr Griffiths, 78, suffered any long-term effects from “mild poisoning”. The accident report at the time found the following symptoms: “tightness of chest, pain across the eyes, vision blurred, violent cough.” Mr Griffiths, who maintains the leak left him with heart problems, depression and impotence, has sought in vain for adequate compensation – in 1976, he received just £110 in an out-of-court settlement which the MoD said marked the end of the matter.”This report opens up a great deal of doubt and shows they have played the issue down and covered it up.

“The government issued an almost complete denial, saying the incidence of ill health was no different to any industrial installation.”But if you look at these new figures, the incidence of ill health and death among a relatively young population was quite remarkable.” Ms Sigmund also claims 30 per cent of the seal population close to Nancekuke was wiped out in 1969.Tom Griffiths, who began working as an engineering fitter at Nancekuke in the late 1940s, was exposed to a nerve gas leak on 31 March 1958. “This draft letter shows clearly that civil servants massaged the answer to an MP in the face of growing allegations of nerve gas incidents. I think we are entitled to know what really went on,” she said. The MP is determined that further investigations be made into the 41 deaths “It seems a much higher than average death rate to me.