Scottish "Justice" Minister - Kathy Thickbucket

In a refreshing show of openness and contrition, Scottish Justice Minister Kathy Thickbucket today acknowledged that serious cases of misidentification and possible corruption had occurred within the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO), the home of the Scottish Fingerprinting Service.

Only kidding. What we actually got was prevarication and arse-covering of Herculean proportions.

Ms. Thickbucket, who had set a world record for the number of refusals for media interviews about the SCRO, was addressing the Scottish Parliament. In a lengthy statement, which was mainly bullshit and flannel, she never once mentioned the various reports and investigations by Scottish Police officers and international experts that stated that malicious and false evidence had been fabricated by the service and that several members of staff may be guilty of perjury.

Neither did she mention that she and the First Minister may have known of this for more than two years.

Neither did she explain why the Scottish Executive waited until the last minute to pay out £750,000 to an ex-police officer falsely accused of a crime because of the allegedly criminal behaviour of Scottish Fingerprints Service staff.

Neither did she concede the case for a public inquiry.

She did however concede that mistakes had been made in identification. FirstFoot.com, in another world exclusive, is proud to be the first to publish one of these acknowledged errors.

SCRO Identification	Actual Identification
Reputable Parliament	Self-serving parasites

Perhaps we have all learned to be cynical about politics. But perhaps we were also expecting a little more from our Parliament.

Not now.

Now the Scottish parliament can claim to be as good as the Westminster one when it comes to lying. It just hasn't taken them as long to get there.