Westminster child abuse inquiry.

[KateLMead]

True Kaz.

[Suff]

[I agree Suff. "however" should one not severely and I mean severely punish those in top positions who happily promoted Pie in the Labour Party ?

Yes, absolutely. But one should not make a circus of it to the exclusion of all else. There are worse out there. Much, much, worse and we should be forcing the police to deal with them on every complaint. Not when they can't ignore it any more.

This press circus about politicians takes away that focus. For which I'm sure the police commissioners and local councils are extremely happy.

[Workingman]

There is no press circus. This is a worm that crept out of the woodwork due to Savile, which was a press circus about Celeb's.

Names came into the public domain which had previously been hidden: see Cyril Smith. MPs started to ask questions about abuse and more names were made available, but on a strictly 'need to know' basis. It then became known that Geoffrey Dickens had passed a dossier containing names of people within The Establishment who were alleged to be child abusers. That dossier has never been found, but it is known to have existed, people other than Leon Brittan (its recipient) are said to have seen it. Whispers of a cover-up began to emerge.

The Savile case and the way it was being handled, plus the revelation about the dossier, enabled people to come forward. Their numbers and the seriousness of their allegations made it nigh on impossible for there not to be an inquiry. The reasons it is now getting so much attention are because it the government tried to brush it under the carpet. When that failed it, Theresa May, appointed two totally unsuitable people to chair the inquiry. The suspicion is that it is too close for comfort for those in high places.

Had it been handled differently the whole thing would now be over, or nearly so.

[KateLMead]

How true... In a nutshell you have hit the nail on the head " What the eye don't see, the heart won't grieve"

[Suff]

All true WM, but also, on the way, it has grown legs, tails, new heads and a hundred feet. The "dossier" of more than 500 cases became somewhat less than 150.

Now the press has the bit between their teeth and nothing else is going to hit the headlines until they have Westminster blood. OK it's certain that there are those hiding behind Westminster and they need to be charged. However I've grown tired of the media glitzfest on things they like to attack, like politicians, when they drop other very serious cases as soon as they can. Until they rise to a level which can't be ignored of course....

I don't like the press very much.... You might not have guessed.