Bad blood

The horrendous infected blood scandal is rightly at the top of UK news. The scandal inquiry’s report was published on the same day that Julian Assange’s latest appeal against extradition was heard. But outrage that successive governments operated a cover-up at the highest level over the blood scandal have not led to suggestions that there might be an essential role for something like Wikileaks and indeed Assange. Ironic, to say the least. And what will we learn from the fact that the bad blood supplies were sourced in the United States, some coming from imprisoned criminals who could make a bit of money selling their blood? That’s ’free trade’ in the extreme. How I wonder will the establishment (soon to be run by our good friend) wash their hands of this unpleasant saga? The hope will be that a sufficiently large compensation package will close it down. I’m willing to bet there will be no prosecutions and long stays in Belmarsh high security prison for those responsible.