Re: Growing scandal over paedophile group and government

**Lamplighter** Sun May 18, 2014 12:05 pm

Here we go again, victims coiming outr of thw woodwork, and Watson is a known troublemaker. And his hands aren't too clean either, see below. I know expenses is inferiort game to paedo activites but .... LL

Expenses scandal

On 10 May 2009 it was revealed that since being re-elected as MP in 2005, Watson claimed the maximum £4,800 allowance for food in a single year. From 2005-2009, Watson and Iain Wright claimed over £100,000 on the apartment they share. Watson responded that a "pizza wheel" that appeared on a Marks & Spencer receipt he submitted was given as a free gift after he spent £150 at the store. He added:

All claims were made under the rules set out by the House of Commons authorities. I fully understand why the public expects the system to be reformed. I voted for this last week and only hope that reforms can go even further as quickly as possible.[

**bb1** Sun May 18, 2014 12:25 pm

One look at Watson and you have no doubt he managed to eat an entire M & S pizza wheel by himself.....

**lily** Sun May 18, 2014 1:39 pm

Times were different 45 years ago. Is there no statute of limitations for groping idiots? Have lawyers run out of things to make money?
i am not saying that something like serious rape shouldn't be dealt with but what a waste of the court's time some of this appears to be,

**bb1** Sat Jul 05, 2014 10:08 pm

**lily** Sat Jul 05, 2014 10:30 pm

**bb1** Sat Jul 05, 2014 10:32 pm

I shudder to think what it is this time, Lily.

**bb1** Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:29 pm

http://news.sky.com/story/1295878/mps-to-question-top-official-over-abuse-claims

MPs To Question Top Official Over Abuse Claims
The Home Office's most senior civil servant will answer questions on missing files alleging historical child abuse by politicians.

The most senior civil servant in the Home Office is to give evidence to MPs after the department admitted more than 100 official files relating to allegations of historical child abuse by politicians have been lost or destroyed.

Permanent secretary Mark Sedwill said the documents - which related to a 20-year period between 1979 and 1999 - were "presumed destroyed, missing or not found".

Home Affairs Select Committee chair Keith Vaz revealed on Sky News he has asked Mr Sedwill to appear before the committee on Tuesday to answer questions.

These files are in addition to a dossier alleging historical child abuse involving powerful and famous figures at Westminster in the 1980s that is also missing.

Mr Sedwill has said he will appoint a senior legal figure to assess the Home Office's handling of the dossier.

Prime Minister David Cameron has called for Mr Sedwill to establish what happened to the file which was handed to the then home secretary, Leon (now Lord) Brittan, by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983.

Lord Brittan admitted he received the dossier and passed it on to officials, but no action was ever taken.

Mr Sedwill revealed in a letter to the Home Affairs committee that while the original review had identified 527 potentially relevant files which had been retained, there were a further 114 files which could not be located.

He said that the investigation had not found a single dossier from Mr Dickens, but several sets of correspondence over a number of years to a number of home secretaries containing claims of sexual offences.

However he said that the review had found no record of specific allegations by Mr Dickens of child sex abuse by senior figures.

Mr Cameron has faced criticism for an "inadequate" investigation into what happened to the dossier.

Labour MP Tom Watson has launched a petition calling on the PM to "make amends for historic failures" and establish a national inquiry.

But Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said it was "too soon" for such a move, which could delay the Home Office probe.

"It may well be then that the answer is to have a much broader inquiry but I think it’s too soon to come to that conclusion now," he told Sky's Murnaghan programme.

Speaking to the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg did not rule out a wider inquiry, but stressed the ongoing police investigations would have to take precedence.

Former Conservative Cabinet minister Lord Tebbit has told the BBC he believes there could have been a cover-up of the allegations.

Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has also written to Home Secretary Theresa May, claiming not enough is being done over "recent serious issues raised over child abuse".

The Metropolitan Police said in a statement: "We are currently assessing information and conducting a number of investigations under Operation Fairbank.

"Any material submitted to us, historic or current, is reviewed to establish if it is relevant to these."

Calls for more to be done about allegations of child sex abuse by politicians have increased since the death of Liberal Democrat MP Cyril Smith, who was subsequently said to have been a paedophile

No-one believes the files are 'missing', any more than they believe the US IRS emails are 'missing'. And I don't really see how Westminster can be trusted to hold an inquiry into itself.

**bb1** Sat Jul 12, 2014 10:23 pm

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