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I think Ludwig has made a very important point here. To use Savill as an example, just about everybody have now crawled out from under the woodwork and said Well, we all knew what was going on but they all just sat on their hands. With Savill I can just about understand the reasons for this, because he raised eye-watering amounts of money for charity.
But its a lot more difficult to see the reason where Cyril Smith was concerned. He was an MP for a minor party that didn't really matter, and had no influence. If he hadn't have been so grotesquely fat and ugly, its likely that no one would have paid him any attention whatsoever. And yet the Police investigated him on more than one occasion, but apparently didn't think it important enough to charge him with anything, so he carried on abusing very young boys.
In the 70's, a dossier of sexual abuse allegations was said to be lost by the Plods, but was instead seized by MI5. Quite why MI5 should be involved at all has puzzled many people for years, as Smith, whatever his perversions, could hardly be thought of as a security risk. After all, what was he likely to do...go over to the Russians ?
But its now clear why MI5 were involved, because Smith was involved in a much larger scandal, around The Elm Guest House in London, a meeting place for perverts, who used it a place to abuse young boys. Many well known names were involved in this scandal, most of them considerably higher profile than a self-important Liberal MP. The Editor will not be happy if I were to list those names, but they are there on the 'net for everyone to see. Some of the names are very surprising indeed !
So, its all to do with protecting the Establishment, and nothing to do with protecting vulnerable young children, and it disgusts me utterly. I have no doubt whatsoever that the same thing could happen now, and indeed, is almost certainly happening even as we speak.
I wish the campaigning Labour MP, Tom Watson every success in continuing to try to open this can of smelly worms. Sunshine is the best disinfectant known to man.