The MHRA Files - Part 2
Tis but a scratch
King Arthur: “A scratch? Your arms off!!”
The Black Knight: “No it isn’t”
Warning 1: GORE
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The Black Knight, a character from the hilarious film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, was a knight who ended up savagely dismembered despite stalling his opponent and averting defeat on multiple occasions with his outrageous denials of injury. I can’t help then but draw comparisons with the MHRA who on many occasions blocked being held to account with ridiculous obfuscations of the truth leading to a catalogue of absurdities.
With that I wonder how The Black Knight would fare if he pulled in a few favours and obtained the MHRA’s playbook, the one detailing their last gasp methods of deceit, and then used that against the sword and honour bearing King Arthur.
Would such diversionary tactics adequately explain away any of his injuries? Might The Black Knight even win the contest and confuse King Arthur into submission by the sheer absurdity of his denialism? Some of them indeed are quite astonishing so let’s find out:
It’s not unusual
Errm excuse me, are you serious?!"
Might not have caused it
Wasn’t your strategy based to counter a lack of anyone realising what happened? How mysterious you advance this line over and over again
Will resolve in a day or two
True when one ceases complaining about it
Cannot compare
Don’t you dare get me started on that!!
No threshold to even know due to ever changing variables
How could anyone understand anything under those conditions? How convenient of you
We should speculate
If being nebulous works for you….
Similar to elsewhere
You surprise me with someone else’s low blow my honourable knight
Should not use
I appreciate your dire warnings but…..
Acceptably safe
I see that we are talking different languages here
The benefits outweigh the risks
The results speak for themselves. Now to cross that bridge but oh, you look a bit upset, you still want to fight?
“Disarmed and defeated yet never admitted being conquered - The Black Knight”
Now now no need for a tantrum!
So the MHRA got The Black Knight killed and I thought that was impossible. Oh and their excuse? It’s through this link under the section “reports with a fatal outcome”, a bit too troubling to show here.
My favourite excuse is their explanation for having no threshold to know due to ever changing variables. It is a particularly outrageous thing we are expected to swallow. Which one was your favourite?
I’m thinking right now of their letter templates - such a playbook of excuses is probably real in one format or another. Good grief! Anyway, for now, give you good night.