It seems that Lord Saville has finally had enough, and the so-called “Bloody Sunday” Inquiry will be published on 15th June – clearing the way for lots of people to sue for ‘compensation’. This will coincide with the release of other Inquiry reports on Omagh, Bloody Friday and the Kingsmill massacre.

“Payday, Bloody Payday” had already cost £183m by 2008 and will top £200m when finished – unfortunately dwarfing the estimated £20m earnings since then of the moron who pointlessly started the whole thing off. So we can’t even send Blair the bill. Well that was money well spent wasn’t it? No matter what the report says it will make no difference and nobody (on either side) will change their mind or opinion of what happened that day; but hey, it’s been at least a few weeks since we’ve had a decent bit of provo appeasement so it’s probably their turn again.

It if is anything like the Scott Report released when John Major was Prime Minister, whose government did everything in its power to prevent it being exploited by the Labour Opposition, it will run into several million pages, contained in about twenty volumes with no executive summary, and priced beyond what the general public can afford (or will be willing) to pay for it.

Buried deeply in the report…in the proverbial dark basement, behind the “Beware of the Leopard” sign, will be the Inquiry’s record that “Martin McGuinness had admitted to Infliction that he had personally fired the shot (from a Thompson machine gun on single shot) from the Rossville flats in Bogside that had precipitated the Bloody Sunday episode. Don’t listen for that on the BBC (who in the same 2000 article report that “it is expected to run for at least two more years.” – next they’ll be predicting global temperatures as fact a decade in advance too…). That’ll be the completely innocent-of-anything-interesting McGuinness pictured above with the Luger.

Quite how independent or interesting this rehash of 38-year old bad memories and propaganda will be is open to dispute. Lord Saville has already submitted his findings to the Labour Government five months ago. The report will have been edited in accordance with the Inquiries Act 2005 which may involve sections being removed or redrafted and the findings altered, if the government believe that it is necessary and expedient to do so under under the wide discretionary powers under section 25 of the Act. The Coalition will also have their chance to tinker as they see fit.

For those thinking that the previous paragraph was typed whilst wearing tinfoil headgear, there is a similar exercise already taking place into what will and will not be disclosed as a result of the Chilcott inquiry. This is particularly ironic considering that the reason for Chilcott was that the public had no faith whatsoever in the findings of previous inquiries relating to the same subject matter.

So what is going to happen? Well, the Saville Inquiry can be done now because the commanders are mostly dead. There is going to be a barbecue of scape-goat and pawns. And loads of lawyers are going to retire early. People will sue. More lawyers will retire early.

But it could all have been avoided; in the spirit of the new austerity regime and cost cutting, how about:

Report: The IRA opened fire and the soldiers on the ground reacted to that, killing 14 people who weren’t there for the scenery (especially the one with the nail bomb).

There we go, that’ll be £199m please. Saving of £1m + postage and packing.