Labour....

[youngmafbog]

Oh dear oh dear oh dear: Labour, not the Tories, were the REAL villains of the child sexual abuse scandal

What makes it worse is this is such a sensitive and serious topic.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9850655/DOMINIC-LAWSON-Labour-not-Tories-REAL-villains-child-sexual-abuse-scandal.html

[davebro]

Damn savages...

[Gromit]

Not sure this is anything new, just the Daily Mail rehashing the story in the Evening Standard in 1993 which resulted in the Ian White Report.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/158173/response/382362/attach/4/The%20White%20Report%20redacted.pdf

[fiveleaves]

Child sexual abuse is a hideous evil.Please don't try and make it a political thing which it isn't

[jno]

I don't see the point of politicisng sexual abuse (though it's no more than I'd expect of Lawson): you know perfectly well it's not the preserve of any one party

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/shamed-scots-tory-councillor-receives-22276397

[Canary42]

. . . and it was Tory Thatcher who knighted Jimmy Savile.

It is indeed not a topic which needs politicising.

[dannyk13]

Canary //. and it was Tory Thatcher who knighted Jimmy Savile.//
No it wasn't, it was the Queen.

[Canary42]

Nit picking

[Mozz71]

//Nit picking//

No, just the truth.

[jno]

sort of, Mozz, the Queen wields the sword but the list of recipients comes from the government. Savile was undoubtedly chummy with Thatcher.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-jimmy-savile-s-close-friendship-with-margaret-thatcher-8432351.html

I'm not suggesting Thatcher knew about his activites when his name went forward; but then Lawson can't claim that Corbyn knew who was a paedophile either. I think it's unwise to weaponise paedophilia like this.