Our corrupt, self-protective, unaccountable Establishment – Michael Meacher MP

Mike Sivier | Vox Political | December 23, 2014

The rampant child sex abuse of Savile over decades was hushed up

 

Several events in the last few days have highlighted poignantly how the British Establishment – the small political-economic-financial elite who went to the same public schools and the same universities (usually Oxbridge) – automatically close ranks to protect each other when they come under pressure, writes Michael Meacher MP.

The mood of this corrupt closing of ranks to protect one of their own is best caught by the machinations reported today of how the Tory government in 1963 (nothing has changed since) sought to frame Mandy Rice-Davies in order to ‘get’ Stephen Ward because he was about to expose Profumo for lying to Parliament about his affair with Christine Keeler.   The Establishment cranked into action.   A corrupt Scotland Yard officer had Rice-Davies arrested for a non-existent theft of a rented TV, softened up in prison, and told she would only be released if she testified against Ward.   She was subjected to the corrupt bullying of the police, the moralising cant of the prosecutor, and the deep bias of the Old Bailey judge.

Nor is this a one-off story of 50 years ago.   The rampant child sex abuse of Savile over decades was hushed up, just as the sexual depredations of Cyril Smith MP were similarly never followed up even though detailed reports of the evidence were sent to the Home Office.   In order to ensure that nothing much would come of the child sex abuse inquiry she set up, Theresa May tried to get away with appointing blatantly pro-Establishment figures to chair it.    We now learn that the Met has enough evidence to validate allegations of a VIP-led child sex scandal operating for years among senior Westminster figures, but though known about it was hushed up for decades.

There’s more, and you can read it on Mr Meacher’s own blog site. The part about sex scandals and paedophilia seemed worth excerpting as it is topical due to the announcement that Home Secretary Theresa May is considering sacking the entire panel of the inquiry into historical child sex abuse in what many see as yet another bid to delay the investigation.

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