Moggy wrote:Dan. wrote:lex-man wrote:Oh man if I was a sitting MP I'd be shittying myself. This is going to seriously going to damage every mps reputation.
If the allegations about Heath are proven to be true, I seriously doubt many people in the UK will suddenly believe every MP to be a disgusting child sexual predator.
True, it's not like Jimmy Savile has made us think that all 60s/70s DJs were molesters or that Gary Glitter has made us think glam rock stars are paedos or that Rolf Harris has made us think all elderly Australians are predators....
It's not so much that. It's that it looks like a there was a massive cover up. I just put the juiciest bits from the article I posted below. This really has potential to wrap back around to current leaders and drag the whole government through the mud.
(Leon) Brittan, who died in January, has been accused of raping a woman and sexually abusing boys.
16 MPs and members of the House of Lords, and 30 high-profile figures from the Church of England, private schools, and big business, were members of, and advocates for, the Paedophile Information Exchange. The shadowy group, which operated partly in the open, campaigned for the age of consent to be abolished and incest to be legalized. It also allowed pedophiles to send each other secure mail and to meet in person.
Three vehicles pulled up to the newspaper offices and about 15 men barged inside. Two pushed him up against a wall and brandished a search warrant and something they described as a “D-notice.” The D-notice system was established in 1912 and was supposed to be used on very rare occasions when national security could be threatened by a news story.
Tim Fortescue, a former Conservative Party chief ...
“Anyone with any sense who was in trouble would come to the whips and tell them the truth, and say now, ‘I’m in a jam, can you help?’ It might be debt, it might be a scandal involving small boys, or any kind of scandal which a member seemed likely to be mixed up in, they’d come and ask if we could help. And if we could, we did. We would do everything we can because we would store up brownie points. That sounds a pretty nasty reason but one of the reasons is, if we can get a chap out of trouble, he’ll do as we ask forever more.”
The longtime deputy director of MI6, and former High Commissioner in Canada, Peter Hayman was himself allegedly a pedophile
Thatcher must also have known about the allegations against her Home Secretary, Leon Brittan,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... er-up.html
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