Andrew Gilligan was right - give or take a word or two.

A great many broadcasts and written reports are like that: Not quite word perfect.

But if every reporter or journalist who didn't get it quite right was forced to resign, there would be precious few left.

Gilligan, though, appears to have become the sacrificial lamb for all time.

Is history going to record that only three men - four if you include Dr David Kelly - were shown to be accountable for events that were, essentially, set in motion by a tissue of lies; none of which was perpetrated by any of these four men?

I was a proud Briton and relatively ambivalent towards politics and politicians before the arrival of this Prime Minister, the contemptible Alastair Campbell and their acolytes.

Now, if I was younger and without parental responsibilities, I would be off to a country that puts its people, its traditions and its culture before personal ambition, autocratic rule and political correctness.

The deceits so arrogantly and ruthlessly executed by a cadre of powerful and vainglorious men have cost thousands of innocent lives in a foreign land.

No one knows how many but most estimates appear to be in the region of 15,000.

Does anyone still in the Cabinet, either here or in the US, really have this on his (or her) conscience? A few, possibly, but they're not saying.

Weapons of mass destruction, the category of these weapons, yellow cake from Niger, 45 minutes, the strategy to name Dr Kelly are all areas where there was deceit.

Then there are the bare-faced lies told about the domestic agenda, such as top-up fees, tax increases, immigration, asylum and the European constitution.

It would be difficult to find a politician who hasn't at some time been economical with the truth, but this deluded, duplicitous and destructive Prime Minister has made it an art form.

How on earth does he keep getting away with it? There will surely be an opportunity for an undaunted print or broadcast journalist to forcefully apply the lie detector - to ask the pertinent questions and keep asking them until prevarication appears utterly ridiculous.

-Neil Coppendale, Shoreham