The current Labour government, under Starmer, has not only failed to protect children when it could, but it has actively opposed others’ attempts to do so. Such morally repugnant behaviour is nothing new for the Labour Party.
Labour grandees Patricia Hewitt, Harriet Harman and Jack Dromey were all prominent in the National Council for Civil Liberties while it was affiliated to the child-rape advocacy group the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). At the time, Harmen’s activities included arguing against a proposed ban on child pornography, and Hewitt’s public conduct included suggestions that objective morality couldn’t either be defined or established. After their links were exposed, these Labour heavyweights all denied that they were influenced by or connected in any way to PIE.
In 1984, Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens handed a dossier, reportedly containing evidence suggesting a Westminster VIP paedophile ring and other child-rape allegations, to then Tory Home Secretary Leon Brittan, in whose custody it promptly vanished. Nothing happened, and the whole muddled fudge ping-ponged around the denial sphere until, in 2014, it was resurrected. Labour MP Simon Danczuk and Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson used the dossier as a political football to score goals against the Tories.
During the subsequent party political shenanigans, it was conceded that at least 114 files contained in the original dossier had disappeared. The head of the Civil Service, Mark Sedwill, said there was nothing “sinister” about the destruction of evidence....<<<Read More>>>...
