Newsnight Last Night - Rotherham Child Abuse

[lindapalmara]

I find it Mind boggling that Newsnight should have Jack Dromey commenting on rights of these children who had been abused in Rotherham and Pontificating about the failures of the Council, Police and Social Services when he was on the Committee of a Body (National Council of Civil Liberties) in the 1970s who embraced the membership of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) into their fold, who wanted the age of consent of sex with children to be lowered to 4!!!

[Svejk]

you'd expect (or I would) that he'd keep a low profile re, children & sex.

[janbee]

Yes Linda, I thought that too.

[mikey4444]

Dromey did what he should have done last night on Newsnight. He called for the immediate resignation of Shaun Wright, or he would face suspension this morning. Wright has now resigned from the Labour Party but has not stood down as the PCC. Legislation brought in by the current Tory Government brought PCC's into being and the result of this is that Wright cannot now be sacked. Not sure what the vents of over 40 years ago have to to do with this immediate situation in Rotherham.

[sandyRoe]

When the PIE applied for some sort of association with the NCCL they would hardly have trumpeted their true aims.
It's hardly fair to tar Jack Dromey with the same brush.

[Gromit]

Is that the same PIE who received a £35,000 from the Home Office in 1980?

[Svejk]

they might not have 'trumpeted' their aims, Sandy, but I'd say there's a pretty good clue in the name.

[Peter Pedant]

and Gerry Adams ! he was a terrorist and his brother was done for child abuse and he did nothing

why doesnt HE curl up and die ? or do they have a life after mistakes ?

you know - like all the police and social workers at Rotherham ?

[Svejk]

if they did, they shouldn't have, gromit. Why, was there someone from the Home Office c.1980 pontificating about child sex on Newsnight as well?

[Gromit]

The Labour Party are being hypocrits here.

They were aware of the Conviction in 2010 of 5 Asian men for abusing 58 children. They knew Wright was responsible for Child Safty on Rotherham during the period of the abuses.

Yet they picked Wright as the Labour Candidate for Police Commissioner in November 2012.

It is only now, when the *** is hitting the fan, that they are trying to limit the damage.

[Peter Pedant]

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and no one here has noticed the PCC were set up to me non political and yet in the last bye election the turn out was 10 % so the electorate noticed that it was just .... just more jobs for the boys

Hey did any notice Alan Milburn - having fixed the health service as an elected politician doing his stuff over internships in industry as a paid hack ? The successful ones like Alan and Tony - will we ever get rid of them ?

[lindapalmara]

I'm no fan of Police Commissioners. Get rid of the lot of them but I do think that what someone stood for in the seventies does matter. Dromey still hasn't apologised for his endorsement of PIE, or his wife. At least Hewitt had the sense to do so.

[Gromit]

// embraced the membership of PIE //

// hasn't apologised for his endorsement of PIE //

Not sure he embraced them or endorsed them. At the time NCCL was an open membership organisation, which meant anyone could join if they coughed up the dosh. It had thousands of members, and the NCCL did not endorse the views of any of its members. PIE's membership was withdraw in the early 1980s.

[mikey4444]

Don't cloud the issue Gromit ! Its quite obvious that all the paedophilia that went on in Rotherham is the fault of the Labour Party !

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Don't cloud the issue Gromit ! Its quite obvious that all the paedophilia that went on in Rotherham is the fault of the Labour Party ! ///

Mmmmm perhaps Labour's mass immigration policy?

[lindapalmara]

Gromit........Dromey's wife Harriet Harman was the legal officer and wrote a report endorsing the proposed age,of consent if I remember rightly and Patricia Hewitt talked about Paedophiles just loving children and not wanting to do them harm.

[mikey4444]

Even if the Labour Party DID have a policy of mass immigration, which it didn't, it wouldn't have stopped the huge amount of paedophilia that have been perpetrated by white men, would it ? Paedophilia wasn't first brought to our shores bt brown men from Pakistan.

[Svejk]

^DID