(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)
Both the Tories and the UKIP have been making political capital recently by linking Labour with the child grooming scandal in Rotherham.
So it must be a bit awkward for UKIP that one of their regional chairmen – Peter Entwistle – has just himself been jailed for grooming children, as well as possession of indecent images of children.
And I’d imagine it’s also a bit awkward for the Tory high command that one of their party’s MPs – Alistair Burt – wrote a letter to the court in support of Entwistle referencing the former Bury UKIP chairman’s “good character”.
So awkward in fact, probably best we keep this information to ourselves.
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Tom, I often agree with you, no I agree with you all the time, except on this one.
The offences are so serious I do not believe they should be politicised. I understand the point you make but this is about individuals and not about the parties they represent whichever one it is.
I think the response to UKIP’s campaign in Yorkshire showed the public does not like it either.
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just to add that all parties and individuals who comment on this should look at the comments the make.
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@ianrobo I take your point and it’s very well made. But this had already been made made into a party political point over Rotherham – by UKIP and the mainstream press in particular – something which you rightly point out was not liked by the voting public.
However, I am not a politician and I do not have to worry about offending voters. Or offending anyone for that matter.
And exposing political hypocrisy is something I make no apologies about.
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Oh for that there is no doubt and I would hope UKIP have kicked him out now and maybe learn a lesson at pointing the finger at others …. Every party will have one and the failure in Rotherham IMHO was not political correctness etc but simply not taking victims seriously.
The same thing we see from the past and into the future I fear.
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i think i might join ukip now.
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Does anyone notice that word “Former”
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Shhhh!
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Whilst this individual has been prosecuted and sentenced. There is a far bigger issue of the highly organised and sinister cover up involving possible homicides of a historical child abuse ring. This probably crosses all political barriers this we do not know yet. I therefore agree that we should not make this political. We have a duty to the victims to get to the truth of what is happening now and what has happened in the past.
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There’s more to come. A lot more…
Click to access 20131128-nigel-farage-redacted3.pdf
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The judge also made comments which suggested that he had borne in mind the defendant’s previous ‘pristine’ character when sentencing was being decided.
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One of the victims said she feels making political capital out of her abuse is disrespectful. I agree with ianrobo. It’s not right to use the victims of abuse to have a go at any political party.
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While the abuse itself, the feelings of the victims and the effects on them and their lives should not be used to score political points, the undeniable existence of a massive cover up, involving all mainstream parties, the MsM and a host of famous names, police officers, wealthy individuals and members of the royal family means that, this is a political issue. The world is looking at us and asking,”Why? Why are the people in power so resistant to a full public inquiry? Why are the media afraid to cover this with nothing more than a cursory glance, when it is painfully obvious that a conspiracy of silence has been thrown over the evidence like a blanket, with people who speak out being targeted and treated as though they were the criminals?”
I agree that highlighting the criminality of members of specific parties serves little purpose, however, each time such a case is highlighted, the reaction of the MsM and the political elite exposes their hypocrisy on this issue. None of the establishment can claim to have clean hands on this one, because they’re either guilty of perpetrating the abuse, or knowing who the perpetrators are and making themselves complicit by their silence.
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It’s a political issue, but it’s not a party political issue. Anybody who tries to score points against any party, Labour, UKIP or Tory by using the victims of child abuse should be ashamed of themselves.
The focus should be to uncover the truth, not try to make party political capital just because another party did it. That’s hypocrisy and this site shouldn’t join in.
Clegg got it right when he said that victims of sexual abuse are being turned into a political football.
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@Muldvarp not sure Clegg is correct there, many MP’s who want the establishment cover up revealed come across the political boundaries and it is not a political football. For me it is about the secrecy of the so called democracy we live in, it is systemic failure.
I am sure many of us watched the programme on C4 last night. What it showed to me is in the abuse debate it is from a simple good/bad equation. The system is to blame because it failed to protect vulnerable people and that includes the abusers themselves many of whom are victims in themselves.
Nothing is a linear equation, things are far more complicated than that but what is becoming sadly clear is the scale of this abuse is large and possible solutions are too uncomfortable for many to even think about.
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Clegg was referring to Rotherham. I agree with you about the far bigger VIP abuse, but that’s more of a hot potato than a football! No senior politician wants to run with it because you’re right about the extreme discomfort it will bring. They have to be given no option.
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what worries me if we do not learn what happened in the past I am afraid it will/does happen in the present and the future.
What we have are two factors –
1) coverups
2) that people are presumed innocent and children not believed.
What the continual news about the VIP story and others (we had someone found guilty today for historic mass abuse in Wales) is doing is encouraging people to report what happened in the past. These brave survivors of abuse deserve to be believed but then you have to get proof of course beyond reasonable doubt.
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It speaks legions for the competence and credibility of any political party if its leadership is alerted to the risk of paedophiles associating with the party and then does nothing in response. In fact, in UKIP’s case it’s much worse than nothing. The leadership is evidenced as having initiated attacks on those members who raised the alarm and then sacked its CEO when he undertook to investigate the evidenced reports from members.
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Grooming followed by rape of children entered politics when the facts were covered up for political reasons. Either to protect big shot politicians or to retain community based votes for Labour in Rotherham. The law rightly nailed the UKIP man and we await numerous prosecutions in Rotherham and many other cities where the grooming gangs have been protected for political reasons.
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Ahhh, right- time to call off the dogs and stop using abuse cases as a political football…..n.ow that UKIP have been exposed. Someone needs to tell this despicable lot then
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That would be the former UKIP regional chairmen who was kicked out 12 months before sentenced.
Get it right otherwise you are just being dishonest.
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