Someone hasn’t heard of Jimmy saville’s reign of sexual assault that likely resulted in over a thousand victims (though the official number is 589) over like half a century (earliest reports dated to 1958 and he died in 2011), many being sick or disabled children that he gained access to via “charity work”. Like Epstein it was an open secret that literally everyone knew but wasn’t allowed to be acknowledged until he was dead and could not be held responsible. They did arrest several other co conspirators in the aftermath of this like Gary glitter but it was clear that saville had protection and the like 7 other people who went down after he died benefitted from whatever connections he had while he was alive.
He literally said in his autobiography he “had a predilection for young girls” and made jokes when questioned about his crimes. He was knighted and knew consequences would never come.
This was the first thought I had too (and I assume most other Brits past a certain age), and he didn’t need a private island to do it in; child hospices and hospitals as you rightly point out were his hunting grounds; many staff even aware of what he was doing, but nothing ever came about from it whilst he was alive. And all the creepy comments he made throughout the years; he didn’t have to hide clearly.
Come to think of it, Saville is probably a hero of Trumps. (If the baboon is even aware of him ofc) He did what Trump is trying to achieve; Dying a child raping hero, and then letting everyone deal with the fallout of your actions whilst your name goes down in history without ever having to face the music.
I’m sure plenty Brits would disagree with having a cute system. It’s not hard to be better than the USA these days.
Being better than the US in any regard for people’s wellbeing is akin to being faster than a dead sloth trapped in dried concrete, imho.
People only get arrested for noncing if they’re poor.
Andy and Mandy got arrested (and released again) because they leaked other rich people’s secrets.
AFAIK the former prince Andrew was arrested in relation to national secrets he was giving to Epstein, not because of the pedo stuff.
Was it the bare minimum? Yeah, pretty much. But they aren’t even doing that in the US. The bar is extremely low yet the US is still managing to walk underneath it without even needing to crouch down.
But they aren’t even doing that in the US.
To be fair trump was arrested and I think part of his rap sheet was mishandling classified information. It’s hard to remember all his scandals because they come at you like a firehouse but they did raid mar a lago and found documents in his bathroom.
Still no jail time for it, but I doubt Andrews gonna do time either…
It’s all a show, our prime minister recently stated that no one is above the law, so they had to at least arrest some people. Obviously they won’t face any consequences, Mandelson for example was arrested at his house at 5pm on a Monday afternoon.
If this was a real arrest, it would have been front door smashed in at 5am. The fact that it happened at 5pm on a Monday afternoon, means they had to clear out the police station of all the peasants, before they brought in the Lord, can’t have anyone shouting ‘Nonce’ in his general direction, he’d have sat in a cell, with the door open, given cups of tea and anything else he desired, probably his favourite Teddy, and his Thomas the Tank Engine slippers.
Same as Mandelson, as much as we all might want it, we’re a very long way away from having enough evidence to prosecute Andrew for his crimes against women and girls.
Call me when they actually get prosecuted
Known pedophiles facing legal consequences is a very recent development in British politics.
Arguably, it’s not even that, since the arrest is over him talking about confidential government stuff with Epstein, not for any of the abuse.
There’s almost like a Royal PR campaign framing this same talking point positioning themselves “better”.
It’s everywhere.
Despite my being American, I listen to some British media, and I think it was James O’Brien who I heard wondering about Andrew. Basically, the royal family has “an heir and a spare.” Charles the heir, and Andrew the spare.
The question really is, what if it was the heir who had been accused and not the spare? Actually, since Charles had his own heirs by then, Andrew wasn’t really even the spare. He is completely disposable. But what if Andrew had been the heir? What if he had already become king and all of this came out? What would the UK do about it?
I think the suspicion is that the investigation would have gone nowhere and not have led to an arrest in that case. Neither the current king nor the heir would have been charged with raping children or leaking confidential material, whatever they did.
They’re going after Andrew because he’s a family embarrassment anyways, and because this scandal reflects badly on the royal family, so if they have him face justice, and they can hope that it makes their image look better, then that’s what they’ll do.
I think we should be having a look old Charlie boy, given he was big mates with a unique individual called Jimmy Savile.
Also, he’s only being thrown under the bus because no one likes him anyways. Easy way to get rid of the nuisance
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They’re only throwing the dog a bone to keep it from eating the masters. Or deep fried cornmeal batter. Hush, puppy!
I mean, it also looks like Peter Mandelson’s “best buddy” status with Epstein is gonna drag down the Starmer government… but more because at this point almost anything would drag that government down, not out of any principled attempt to address the pedophile cabal.
The only reason Starmer’s not sacked yet is that whoever replaces him is definitely losing the next election.
A distraction is a distraction 🤷♀️
For (largely?) speakers of non-rhotic dialects, they sure do add a lot of Rs into their words. Maybe they miss them so they throw them back in elsewhere.
It’s great that they are doing something now. Jimmy Savile got away with everything.
