Brilliant post mate. This is an international issue and I am glad to see someone covering the inquiry at the other side of the globe. I do hope your representatives give a better account than ours are doing. Personally I hold no hope for any kind of 'official inquiry' like this as they are playing with a rigged deck of cards. As for when our system began to crumble, that would have a lot to do with the removal of what was known as a 'Court de jure'. That was the common law court were EVERY crime would be heard by a jury of 25 of your peers. That was in the mid 19th century. They also removed power from the house of Lords in 1911 and that gave parliament a green light to push through any law they wanted to. House of Lords no longer have the power to block a bill(proposed law) and that has just led to having no check's and balances. The separation of powers has been eroded and now we have a revolving door between industry and government. This has all been a huge plan to remove sovereignty and the Commonwealth was then signed over to the EU in 1973. Since then, the crown and all its property is under the authority of the EU. Their Laws are based on an entirely different ethos(guilty before innocent kind of thing).
As always, these reports are accompanied with a huge pot of cash for everyone to dig their snouts into. The UK inquiry has seen many 'experts' and all manner of leeches get very well paid through supplying services to the inquiry, and for what? Nothing will change while we rely on government to implement legislation. It is up to us all to realise how messed up we are and make drastic changes to our lifestyles. Love the work and effort you have put in to this. Much respect bud. Look forward to following this story and I hope you will carry on reporting this to steemit.