Its Jimmy Tarbuck's turn today

I'm still waiting for a single politician to be arrested.
I have no doubt whatsoever that, if this so-called 'culture' of abusing young women and boys was indeed rampant in the Seventies (and it was), then it was not only clerics and entertainers who abused the status of power and influence, but politicians too.

Was only chatting about this the other day after reading this article in the Mirror
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-police-ageing-comedy-1857806. Why they black out the picture is a mystery to me when i guessed who it was straight away, from the article and the image as did many others i'm sure!

I recall some teachers in school that dark rumours attached to. It was a good school, so such teachers didn't generally stay more than a year or two.
Yes, I accept that those with any power and access to children may have been able to abuse with greater impugnity in those days.
What I'm driving at is that it seems we are now in an era of relative openness where victims feel capable of accusing their persecutors from those days. And yet, of all those accused, charged or convicted, where are the politician abusers, those who had the greatest power of all?
Are we to believe that politicians alone were of higher moral probity? Or are the dark rumours gathering on the internet, attached to places like Kincora boys home and dead politicians like Cyril Smith, only the tip of the iceberg?
I'm inclined to think the latter, but I think politicians will be the very last caste of people to be convicted for this sort of crime. I'd go further and say that only when they're banging up former cabinet ministers and senior politicians for sexual abuse committed in the past will I truly believe we have exorcised this cancer out of society for good.

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

I'm starting to wonder if it was prerequisite for mainstream media success pre 1990.

lol it seems pre 1990 you had to be a pedofile to get on tv
post 1990 you have to be gay to get a job on tv

That's three men, named and unnamed that have been defamed without any proof against them in this thread. These are serious crimes we're talking about. I know this is ah but making light of it and tarnishing the names of men who havn't been accused of anything is just wrong
.Are there any mods watching this at all?

Bloody Tarby…..can’t wait to hear what Roger Mellie makes of this

fergiesfolly wrote: »

That's three men, named and unnamed that have been defamed without any proof against them in this thread. These are serious crimes we're talking about. I know this is ah but making light of it and tarnishing the names of men who havn't been accused of anything is just wrong
.Are there any mods watching this at all?

As said above, report the posts.

For everyone else, DO NOT MAKE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST PEOPLE! It's common bloody sense.

I keep reading about these accusations but what I never read about is any evidence apart from some claim. Any witnesses, photos or dried fluids to back this stuff up? I'm seriously having a hard time caring as these claims get ever more tenuous. Didn't a woman claim that DLT jiggled her breasts once in the 1980s? I want to see fingerprints.

If John Noakes is ever implicated my entire childhood existence will just become a black fog of lies and regret.

Roger_007 wrote: »

If only Shep or Petra could talk..........(you have to be a certain age to understand this)

In fairness he never tried to hide it when asking Shep to go down.