Major incident at Salisbury District Hospital

[Pupp]

Whilst all innocently and adversely affected by this affair warrant every sympathy and support, I thought the Panorama programme was a pretty hopeless examination of what occurred; it added nothing new and was unnecessarily alarmist. And the Beeb's continuous coverage of it as 'news' is just naked hagiography.
Must do better (please).

[Cobnapint]

It was pretty poor (like most Panoramas).

[TwistingMyMelon]

I thought it was pretty good and detailed what actually happened to the copper (what a poor , but decent bloke)

What would you want Panorama to say, it just recapped everything with some decent interviews

Im not normally a fan of Panorama either

[Roofless Toothless]

One dead, three seriously ill in hospital, a city terrorised, and these bar stewards think it's a joke.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-46...

[saaby93]

Roofless Toothless said:

One dead, three seriously ill in hospital, a city terrorised, and these bar stewards think it's a joke.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-46...

Looks cleverer than that - irony
All you eejerts in Russia who bought the KGB cover story - have a choclate cathedral

[Cobnapint]

saaby93 said:

ooks cleverer than that - irony
All you eejerts in Russia who bought the KGB cover story - have a choclate cathedral

I would say you're right. The news that the GRU's cover story was completely blown apart by British Intelligence won't have been aired on Russian state TV so they can carry on mocking.
Anyone that 'had' seen Western news stories at the time and are stupid enough to speak out will be derided for falling for 'typical Western/British anti-Russian propaganda' etc etc.

[toastybase]

It’s similar to what happened to a chap round here. 5 tonne of gravel delivered for a Tuesday morning only to arrive at 3pm and therefore there was not enough time to get all the stuff out in the drive and raked out.

[Gareth79]

Skripal's house to be demolished:

https://news.sky.com/story/sergei-skripal-poisoned...

It says a "replacement roof" will be installed, which seems odd given they will be creating a sealed scaffold cover over everything, unless the news articles have got it wrong and *only* the roof is being replaced? (which would be even more odd)

[768]

I think removing the roof is part of how they're going to clean it. Then it needs replacing.

Does sound odd though.

[Gareth79]

768 said:

I think removing the roof is part of how they're going to clean it. Then it needs replacing.

Does sound odd though.

I'd have thought it would be cheaper, quicker and get a better result just demolishing it and rebuilding though - rebuild cost would be maybe £150k once the site is cleared/dug? I assume they have tested everything and perhaps the air currents took material from the door up the wall to the soffits, and perhaps it got drawn inside too, which would imply the brickwork is contaminated. It'd be interesting to know what happens to it if it's just cleaned up - I assume sold on the open market, I can't see the council or housing association putting people in it.

Edited by Gareth79 on Tuesday 8th January 14:59

[768]

Yeah, I'd imagine a new build would be worth a few quid more on the open market too than something marketed as a house of deadly poison that's had a bit of a wipe down.

[Gareth79]

768 said:

Yeah, I'd imagine a new build would be worth a few quid more on the open market too than something marketed as a house of deadly poison that's had a bit of a wipe down.

I'm sure the EA will spin it.

"Boasts an exotic history"
"Benefits from a recently replaced front door and roof"
"Much sought-after road"
"Lovely views of cathedral spire"
"Spacious driveway suitable for up to 4 police cars"

[Chimune]

R4 bod this evening was saying they are doing this to prove it's a minor precaution with zero risk to the public / nothing to see here etc.

Then went on to detail the removal of the roof. Internal door frames, all interior woodwork and plaster!

Final option is council purchase it!

Perhaps they could put Anjem Choudary in there for further 'monitoring '!

[SydneyBridge]

It would annoy me living in a house, with so many tourists around, who were lost on their way to the Cathedral........

[anonymous-user]

More fodder for conspiracy theorists to chew on collated at ZH

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-21/skripal-...

The ‘off duty nurse’ first on the scene was chief nursing officer of the British army, Colonel Alison McCourt

And

skripal's link to Christopher Steele is now thought to be part of a Russian plot to discredit the Steele Dossier. Fascinating.

[768]

Interesting bring your daughter to work day.

[anonymous-user]

Both the colonel and her daughter were lucky not to affected by the deadly novichok as they tended to the skripals.

[Escapegoat]

Anyone with critical faculties ought to be twitching at this info, and want to make sense of it.

Of course, but for the scenario (a la Craig Murray) that this was Novichok poisoning by HMG, it still doesn't make sense. If this Colonel/nurse was on the scene as part of a pre-planned operation, she most definitely wouldn't let her daughter anywhere near the Skripals.

And if she did let her daughter near, safe in the prior knowledge that this wasn't a deadly toxin, then she didn't need to be a Colonel/nurse. HMG would have used a regular spook with plausible cover story for being in Salisbury.

[otolith]

Yes, if you were going to do a false flag nerve agent operation, you'd definitely arrange for some senior military medical staff to put themselves at risk of exposure.

[Oakey]

otolith said:

Yes, if you were going to do a false flag nerve agent operation, you'd definitely arrange for some senior military medical staff to put themselves at risk of exposure.

The really impressive part of this conspiracy is the bit where the government got Russia to conveniently send over two Russian FSB agents to use as fall guys